The government wants too much of our money.
Letter to the Editor
Chicago Sun-Times
You devoted a lot of space recently to a man advocating
higher property taxes for Chicago, because the suburbs have it, and this is
good for schools. Then there was the
letter from some school official who said that schools need more money, and the
state wants to spend another $6+ billion on schools and make that temporary tax
hike permanent. And, of course, the
pension issues are always in the news, about how they need billions more to
keep up with their obligations.
Why doesn’t everybody just give Springfield and Washington
our whole damn paychecks, and they can just give us all a living allowance? With cost of living increases, of course.
If it wasn’t for the fact that the people in this country
who are getting screwed are so busy working, there would be riots in the street
and sit-ins at every government building in the country. But trust me, they are getting angry, and
there is a limit to their acquiescence.