Letter To The Editor: Tax Payers Have Had Enough

I take great offense to Mr. Weadon's remark that Anne Arundel County residents “balk at paying the level of the taxes it takes to support them.” Excuse me, but what services are we not already paying for?

We pay water and sewer fees, front foot assessments (we get a lot out of that fee don't we), property taxes which mainly go to fund our nearly $900 million county education budget, where 70 to 80 cents of every dollar goes to pay personnel costs (less very generous teacher pensions which are born by the state budget) so that the only education dollars getting into the classroom are in the wallets and purses of the teachers and administrators.

Our county tax dollars are also paying for the cost of our county government with its generous salaries, benefits and unfunded pensions to its administrators, deputy administrators, assistants to the deputy administrators and on and on.

What Mr. Weadon and many other liberals of his kind fail to acknowledge is that government at all levels - federal, state and county - have been irresponsible in the management and spending of our tax dollars. It is not that we "balk at paying for our services" but that government has been so irresponsible and negligent in the spending of our tax dollars and we as tax payers, have had enough.

Bob Shade, Severna Park