Raising a family in rural Maine was my American dream and I got to live it.

We worked hard and played by the rules. As an accountant, my job was also to make sure my company played by the rules, and we did. But those rules grew increasingly complicated and tilted in favor of multinational corporations and groups with powerful lobbyists.

I am retired now, but my professional experience and belief that we must leave this great nation better than we found it for our children and grandchildren spur me to urge passage of real and effective tax reform for the American people.

It is our duty to make sure our children and grandchildren do not start out pursuing their American dream with the weight of a complicated and bloated tax code on their backs.

I know better than most how current tax policy requires a level of expertise most American families cannot afford and do not have.

I want my children and grandchildren to pursue their American dream without the weight of high tax rates and 74,000 pages of tax policy on their backs.

Let’s level the playing field and lighten the load for Maine’s families. Let’s leave America better than we found it with a vibrant, growing economy and bigger paychecks for the middle class.

Bruce Turcotte, New Vineyard