Feb 10, 2019 2 min read

Let’s see if I understand this. I pay taxes so I can support or subsidize affordable housing where individuals are on a waiting list of 100-plus. So, I am on the hook for the bureaucracy, maintenance of and the building of new low-income facilities because there aren’t enough apartments to supply the need.

The need is there because a good percentage of the elderly and retirees can’t afford to keep the homes they spent a lifetime paying for. They can’t afford their homes because of the overbearing and constantly increasing taxes and reassessments imposed by the oligarchy (swamp).

I suspect that it would be less expensive and more cost effective if you were to create conditions to allow retirees to stay in their own homes. In doing so, we could reduce the bureaucracy, the buildings and maintenance, and as an added plus, we could reduce the taxes of the average, hard-working taxpayer. It is hard to imagine how the self-worth of an individual is depleted when forced to lose his home and have nothing to leave his children.

Allowing the taxpayer to keep more of his money is more cost effective than trying to spread it through a bureaucracy, then back to the taxpayer on the pretense of helping.

What it does accomplish is this: It allows the oligarchy to siphon off a big percentage of the money to support what they feel their lifestyle should be. 

The Bible teaches that the poor will always be with you. I belief if the oligarchy were a little more forthcoming and a lot less self serving, we would have fewer poor.

I realize that there are those who are reading this who are sitting there, smug, in the security of your position that I am paying for.

Walter A. Lyons

Monroeville