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To the Editor:
In your editorial, Oct. 23, you state, "Senator Dole is right, most families require two workers. But it is low < wages, not high taxes." No, I believe as Senator Dole does, it is taxes that are enslaving our people financially.
Let's look, for example, at the taxes on the privilege to own and drive an automobile, a necessity. We pay sales tax when the vehicle is purchased. Tires, fuel, repair parts are all taxed and, oh, how the fuel is taxed. That's not all: We pay property tax on the vehicle along with the county tag tax. More yet: How about the salaries of the personnel to levy and collect the tax, issue the decals, and the law enforcement officers to enforce the law? Taxes on taxes on taxes! We pay more taxes on a loaf of bread than we pay for the wheat that goes into making the loaf of bread.
Every year or so, I have opportunity to visit the Amish community in Lancaster, Pa., some of the most wonderful people on the face of the earth. Now, if Mrs. Clinton wants to see how a family should be raised and how a community should be run she should take a look at the Amish model — not some third-world model. The Amish community has structure and real values. While she is there, she can check out the crime rate, drug problem, welfare rolls and divorce rates. Her research won't take very long. The Amish are a God-loving people that take responsibility for their families, children and community. They finance their own schools, care for their own families and keep the cleanest of communities. They ask very little — if anything— from the government, and sadly they are being driven from their land due to the outrageous taxes. Many Pennsylvania and Ohio Amish families have moved west in the past several years to escape the tax burden, which you say is not the problem.
History proves that taxes are the prpblem, though. If we look back to the 40s, the 50s and early 60s, we see that a family (yes, even in Rappahannock) could work and save, purchase and pay for a home, farm or business, and even give their children a college education. You know what the big difference is between then and now? Taxes!
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