I thought at first that your editorial about Hispanics and the so-called poor was satire until I realized you are serious about taxing those who work and pay taxes and giving to those who don’t work and don’t pay taxes.

Now I can’t find anywhere in the state constitution or the federal one that slavery is now legal. Because when you take my money and give it to those who haven’t earned it, then that sir, is slavery pure and simple. You can call it charity or social justice or helping the kids or whatever name you want to hang on it, but it is not morally right.

Frankly, I am tired at all the “help” that illegals and others get courtesy of taxpayers—free breakfast, free lunch, free health care, not paying taxes, not having drivers’ licenses or car insurance. This just the tip of the iceberg, as when the county funds the schools with property taxes and the vast majority of illegals are not paying taxes.

Now before you say “that is not true,” consider this. With three or four families living in a house and all of them having kids in the school system, you are only getting the taxes from one house yet they have two to three families using the system and not contributing a dime to the cost.

Now you complain about the Hispanic drop-out rate, well they don’t feel they have to assimilate and become Americans. So they don’t learn English, they basically know that socialists like you reward a free ride to those who don’t produce.

I notice that many of these so-called poor families you refer to are driving new cars and buying new furniture courtesy of those home equity loans they take out and then abandon when they move on to the next house they buy. When you talk about food, they and their kids are some of the most obese people you can find. I certainly don’t see many skinny ones.

I have an idea, the great society idea pushed by the socialist/fascist element in this country has been tried for over 40 years and has only caused this country to slowly unwind and run up over $100 trillion in debt.

Let us try the opposite tack. If you don’t work, you don’t eat. If you don’t get a HS diploma, then you can’t get any welfare. If you do get welfare, then you can dig ditches or pick up trash to earn your check. If you have kids in school and you are not the owner of the home you are sharing with the other two to three families (in other words paying property taxes), then you would be assessed the same taxes as the homeowner so that you pay your fair share.

I know I am being heartless according to you socialists but, frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn. I’ll take care of my family and, friends, you take care of yours, and we will get along fine.

Jim Kiser

Sterling