Letter: Tax-and-spend policies hurt
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005 | 9:13 a.m.
Contrary to Jon Ralston's generalized opinion, expressed in his Sunday column in your newspaper, I did not move to Sun City to die but to enjoy retirement in what I thought was a state that took a common-sense approach to taxes.
Many of us moved here to escape the oppressive taxes of New York or California. Gov. Kenny Guinn is nothing more than a Rockefeller Republican who likes spending and taxes. I saw that policy destroy New York state and, frankly, don't wish to see it here.
I suggest that Ralston take a long, hard look at Buffalo, N.Y., where he received his K-12 subsidized education in part from my tax dollars, to see what high taxes, bloated government, unrealistic public pensions and debt have done to what was once the Empire State. Parks are closed. Libraries are on short hours and toilet paper is rationed at government buildings.
States such as New York and cities such as Buffalo are the future unless big government is stopped. We in Sun City are in retirement but we have the wisdom to see that the polices Ralston and the Las Vegas Sun mouth week after week don't work. We support Sen. Bob Beers and Assemblywoman Sharron Angle because there is no free lunch -- the bill has to be paid some day.
JOHN B. KODWEIS
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