I want to point out a problem that really concerns me. First I want to make it clear I am all in favor of educating our children, but we must find a fairer way to raise the money to pay for it. This is how the law collects the money for people now.

1. I can earn $200,000 a year and live in the same valued building as someone earning $50,000 a year. The lower income person will pay four times the percentage of their income than I do. Unfair.

2. All business property tax is mostly paid by middle- and low-income people.

3. The legislators brag about lowering the property tax. They lowered the property tax 20 percent, increased the sales taxes: no relief. They gave us $25,000 more homeowner exemption. The assessor walked through the house and raised the market value $25,000: no relief.

4. I checked the property tax put on people in care centers, and the legislators taxed people in wheelchairs and people with walkers and totally disabled people about $800 to $1,000 a year. Disgusting.

I ask you people, are we teaching our children this unfairness and legalized stealing? ...

Help me change the system so it will be fair. Join me and demand that our legislators replace unfair property tax with a local income tax.

Werner Brammer

Lewiston