Letter to the editor: Taxes, high prices, presidential election among our problems

It’s always nice to get a little refund on your taxes, but this year my income tax and property tax refunds won’t cover the 32% increase on my taxes. How are people on fixed incomes supposed to survive? If this increase is really to cover past mistakes, does that mean next year that 32% will be cut back to a cost of living equal to Social Security increase? As if that would ever happen!

The dizzy Democrats keep adding to the problem. Seniors can’t afford to buy a new car or put gas in it (or in an old one) and I wonder where they are buying their food if they haven’t “noticed” the increase in the grocery stores. I don’t need anyone feeding me phony baloney statistics. I only need to watch my bank account balance as it plunges toward zero.

Who to vote for is certainly another problem. In this country of 340 million people, why can’t we find two people who are suitable candidates for the presidency? You know, someone who is not senile, can easily travel the stairs, is under 70, is not under investigation for crimes either real or fictitious, is of good character and morals, who would be willing to run for president. Apparently we can’t, and yet we expect to be respected on the world stage. Yeah, right.

Eileen Condie

Hempfield