Why do the taxpayers in this state continue to suffer? I will tell you why: High taxes and the welfare system.

This state is one of the easiest states to get onto some sort of welfare program. Unlike the con artists who live in this state and others who flock to this state, I work two jobs to put myself through school and to support me and my fiance. I work one job strictly for health insurance and the other to pay bills. I could easily qualify for heat assistance or rent refunds, and maybe food stamps, if I played the system right. I choose not to because I feel a person is responsible for themselves and their own family.

This state has become a second mother to the first, second and third generations of cheats who play the welfare game. It’s like passing a learned skill from one generation to the next.

It is time to come up with some sort of welfare reform that works for all the taxpayers, not just the check cashers. A plan for a tax on food and milk is a joke. If that passes, I bet there would be a 10 percent hike in welfare payments to offset the taxes, handing the cost to the taxpayers. No wonder young people are opting to go to college elsewhere and to move from this state.

I wonder if there will be a vote to rename our state from “Vactionland” to “Welfare and Tax land.”

Chris Bisson, Mechanic Falls

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