To the editor:

When any level of government raises your taxes, it tells me they are not willing to operate within their budget. Your home is a business. You have obligations, contracts and people to take care of. If you do not operate within your budget, you could lose your business (foreclosure).

If you ask those in government positions why they want to raise your taxes, they will tell you it is hard to make ends meet and they need more money to operate. As a homeowner, you cannot go out and raise taxes to make ends meet. You do without or cut back. The government should do the same.

I have a budgeting suggestion: For the next five years, no one in government gets a raise or bonus. They will say we can’t live on that. Seniors do it every day. Seniors did not get a Social Security raise, but have to pay higher costs on everything. If seniors have to survive with less, so can our government at all levels.

Raising taxes is a no-brainer. Raising taxes is the easy way out. Our elected representatives need to cut out the pork, eliminate the icing on the cake and learn to live with less like the rest of us that have to pay those taxes.