To the editor:

I always have a good chuckle reading letters from the extreme anti-tax citizens among us. Their tunnel vision and lack of understanding of anything beyond the immediate gratification of their wallets is quite entertaining. Predictably, they fail to understand the benefits they enjoy and what a real bargain they are getting by pooling our resources.

David Holroyd writes of our local government, “You and your cohorts think nothing of charging $14.72 for sewer and $4 for a storm water runoff fee each month on my water bill of $35.83.” Thirty-five bucks for clean water pumped right into one’s home is quite a bargain compared to the cost of disease in the days of hauling buckets up from the creek.

And $4 for storm runoff? I’d wager Mr. Holroyd would be the first to complain if we as a community skimped on this $4 and instead converted our streets to impassable rivers for days every time it rained.

David Reber,

Lawrence