TAXES: Wrong part of the solution

I appreciate Sunday’s editorial. I would only dispute the notion that Americans should pay more taxes.

The last few years have produced record tax income for the federal government, but it will never cover how they spend our money like drunken sailors.

How much more do you want us to pay?

If anybody should sacrifice, it should start with the federal government.

There is so much waste and duplication from federal, state, county and city government it is absolutely ridiculous. If we are worried about weaning Americans from Medicare spending, then states and local governments need to turn down federal money for roads, bridges to nowhere, and any other project.

The federal government was never intended to be this large or controlling.

Start by getting rid of baseline budgeting and slashing the budget by 10 percent.

Close the Department of Education, HUD, BLM, EPA, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

How much time do we have to add to the list? The Department of Homeland Security? The borders could easily be secured by our military during training to save our nation’s sovereignty. The IRS? Mostly gone with a flat or use tax.

If everybody pays some tax we all have skin in the game.

Families and business make tough cuts every day in managing their finances, but governments rarely do.

To me, these are easy solutions, but no politician will ever make these tough choices. When you can easily just have the people pay more taxes, that is not a solution.

I’m tired of being told we all have to sacrifice and pay more taxes. I’ve been hearing this argument for 40 years.

RUSSELL DiBIASE

Hayden