Willing to pay taxes for schools, other services

Here is a question for all the tax protesters: Just what spending do you want cut? Let's start close to home. Do you want your road or street not to be plowed the next time it snows? Do you want that same street not to be patched the next time there's a pothole? Do you not want municipal water and sewer service? What about schools? Surely, we don't need those.

Do I need to continue? One thing I never hear tax protesters say is, "Cut my services." Oh, I can give you quite a list of what other people's services we should cut. But mine? Oh no.

A letter in the Watertown Daily Times cites an alcohol tax to support the military, which was used to put down a revolt over the alcohol tax. So is this writer (and others) saying we don't need an army? In every prescription for "cutting government spending," it's always something out there, something that doesn't particularly benefit "me" that is to be cut.

As for me, I'll pay my taxes, and gladly. So please, keep plowing my street and paving it and educating the kids of my town (none of whom are presently mine) and protecting our country. Please. I'll pay the taxes.

Rev. Ted Tate

Star Lake