A few angry “soccer moms” have managed to force a new town meeting in Wales in response to the school board’s cuts to bring an out-of-control school budget back to its senses.

After the last town meeting, I went home and connected faces with names in the Wales tax book and found something interesting. It seems that some of the loudest screamers are paying around half of what I and many others are already paying.

At the last town meeting they told us that if the $470,000 proposed school budget passes and we were paying $3,000, our taxes will go up $750.

I keep hearing “what about the kids? Don’t you care about the kids?”

Of course I care about the kids; I have two of my own. I care to not want to turn a town over to them that they cannot afford to live in as adults. Besides education, kids need food, clothing, shelter and medical visits. They have birthdays, Christmases and, hopefully, family vacations. Some of these will take a big hit in my home if taxes continue to rise.

I’ll tell you a real threat to me: that I will have to sell the house that my father and I built for my family.

Taxpayers in Wales should look at the four-and-a-half pages of unpaid taxes in this year’s book, then support the taxpayers because some day our kids will be taxpayers.

Fred Woodcock, Wales