To the editor:

Senior citizens are concerned about rising property taxes due to education and a needless golf course.

With more private schools, more home schooling and more virtual schooling on home computers, why is additional funding needed? The enrollment for public schools only went up by 169 students this year.

Why do we keep a golf course which makes no money? Or closed schools used for storage? Sell them. The “1 percent for the arts” should be deleted from the budget as well as the Sister City program, if it is dependent on taxes. Balance the budget by living within the means of the community.

The president’s giving tax rebates, and the people are losing their homes because of increasing property tax. What’s wrong with this picture?

Seniors were taxed when they earned their income at work and now they are being taxed again on their Social Security income, taxing twice on the same money. Is this fair?

Mary Ann Kieffer,

Lawrence