One penny at a time

I am getting tired of the Bangor Daily News’ socialistic views on your editorial page – everything from support of the north woods park to “it’s only for the children” mentality. Your published support for additional taxes to construct a new auditorium is typical of your published solutions for financial difficulty. You support every bond issue that comes down the pike.

Bond issues have interest that is to be paid, that transcends to a tax. It could be possible that if we were not the highest-taxed state in the country we would have funds to reconstruct the auditorium. The original was built without a 1 percent sales tax. And to reflect on your closing sentence “even if it means paying an extra penny on a dollar” we became the highest- taxed state in the nation, one penny at a time.

Al Lorenz

Brewer