I see the “please tax us more” crowd is at it again, “Fed up with services? (BDN letters, Oct. 22). “Fed up with good schools?” the writer asks. No, just fed up with the “do it for the kids” mantra that has gotten us into paying teachers far more than 90 percent of what most Mainers make and which, among other government costs, has driven business right out of Maine.

Just who is going to pay the taxes when the last enterprise moves on to another state or country? The “shut up and pay up” mentality has to change or we will have no income and no money for any of the things government thinks we so desperately need.

John Hubbard

Bangor