Taxes, Energy Are On Minds

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The election year has brought out the best fiction writers. ...

One writer said that electing Democrats would not increase our taxes. It seems that it has in the past, and we already have seen it from our Legislature, including the increase in our gas tax at a time when gas prices have never been higher.

The tax cuts of yesteryear included any one that paid taxes. If your tax obligation was small, you received a like reduction.

But the tried and true class envy assertion has always been successful. Let the rich pay. But it never works that way.

In the end it's you and I with increased taxes.

Then there is U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann. She has been criticized for many things but especially for her position on reducing our dependence on foreign oil.

Are these the same liberal voices who blocked building additional refineries and said no to nuclear energy and certainly no additional coal burning?

We are a nation dependent on oil and import 80 percent of our requirement. We can and should reduce our personal use of this resource. However, it's not my driving to the market that impacts our economy as much as the delivery of all the goods and services.

Until we can wean ourselves off oil, we should use our own resources and reduce our dependence on those that would destroy our economy.

We have experience with offshore drilling that has not affected the oceans and all that swim in them. The Alaska pipeline is there, and from what I have read has not adversely affected the wildlife. Let's drill.

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