Over the last few months, I have been watching numerous town and city managers express outrage with the proposed Palesky tax cap, and I have reacted with humor to their fear and smear campaign (thinking inside the box, as many management seminars would say).

Then I said to myself, why do we need so many town managers, school superintendents and police chiefs? If we went with a county-type government, using Virginia as an example, we could consolidate school departments, highway departments, fire departments, police departments and the city or town managers, and their staffs, saving taxpayers’ cash.

I think the people of Maine need to elect new officials who can think outside the box and bring new ideas to the table, instead of using old ideas of raising taxes today and worrying about fixing the problems tomorrow, because tomorrow never comes.

For the last 20 years, we have been promised lower taxes by the same Democratic “majority” political party. I believe it’s time for a change.

Duane Dumont, Winthrop