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Lawmakers continue to leave the hardship of unfair property taxes on homeowners who are losing their homes to tax sales. Young and old are suffering because legislators manipulate their conscience to justify unfair property taxes.

Teachers continue to strike, causing hardship for parents and students. Teachers and lawmakers need to stop manipulating their consciences and realize how many people they are hurting with increasing costs.

People have the right to vote at 18 years of age, when they are considered legal adults. The burden of taxes can be lessened on homeowners if everyone age 21 and older paid school taxes, whether they are a homeowner or not.

I would pay about $50 in taxes if everyone who is considered an adult had to pay, rather than the approximate $5,000 I currently pay. If everyone over 21 years old paid their share, there would be fewer properties lost to tax sales due to the great burden of school taxes on homeowners.

I am encouraging state legislators to do what is right and pass tax reform. It only took overnight for legislators to pass their pay raise. It should not take much longer than that to pass tax reform. Just because one owns a home, it does not mean they have an overabundance of means to pay into high taxes year after year.

Ed Tomko

Dorrance Township

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