What percentage of people pay their property tax? How many people can’t, or refuse, to pay their property tax? Perhaps it is the most dreaded tax we have. Looking at town and city reports for people who haven’t paid their property tax, I think most would be amazed at the names there.

In most cases, education consumes the majority of a locality’s budget, which comes from property taxes. Isn’t there a better way to solve the problem that the rich won’t pay, the poor can’t pay, so the middle class ends up with the entire burden?

How about this plan: Everyone pays a certain percentage of his or her gross income toward education – taken directly out of paychecks. Everyone would pay a fair share. No more tax bill that people dread. Obviously, percentages for the retired or those on fixed incomes would have to be adjusted. No deductions, except for families who are attending college.

I wonder how much those huge oil companies pay in state and federal taxes after making so many millions of dollars in profits?

Oil has become the root of all evil, domestic and worldwide. Would we be in Iraq if it weren’t for oil?

We have the smartest scientists in the world. Someone could come up with an alternative, affordable energy source. Hybrid cars are a start, but not affordable to the middle class.

Perhaps the oil lobbyists are too strong.

The poor are freezing, the rich are laughing and the middle class is paying.

George A. Ferguson, Sabattus

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