Show How concerned should we be about taxes By Terri Goolsby Horizon News Editor How concerned should we webe webe webe be about taxes With elections a little more than a week away were we're increasingly increasingly increasingly in in- bombarded with talk about taxes TV radio and even our own student newspaper is full of tax I hear people complain that they're tired of all this talk about taxes After all it is only of our lives lives or isit Most of us wake up in the in n that has at a a tax burden imposed upon it property tax We get dressed in clothes that were taxed sales tax and take out the garbage garbage tax We may eat breakfast food tax or just may light up a cigarette garette cigarette tax We go get in our car that we paid sales tax on and that we registered a kind of tax and that the manufacturer paid an import tax on We cant can't drive it without a drivers driver's license a tax of sorts and back out onto a roa l' l t at we e pay road tax on We Wf dri drive e to gas station and fill it up and pay gasoline tax We haven't even reached school or work yet and al already already already al- al ready weve we've dealt with over ten taxes Upon arriving at school many of us had to buy books ks this quarter We paid sales tax on those After clas class classes ses es we eat lunch and pay another tax on our food We can cant t. t en eat without paying taxes How important ar are taxes No they're not just one aspect of our they're lives-they're every aspect of our lives This November we have an opportunity opportunity opportunity to have a asay say on our tax burden It is an important election Will you ignore the tax issue or study it and become become become be be- come an informed intelligent voter Taxes have been one of the most important concerns of common people throughout history Many have shed blood to obtain free elections Will you be a responsible voter making an informed vote Or will you throw your vote away and with it a little bit or your freedom |