A Taxing Issue 0
Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr., once said, “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.” Methinks his point is well taken: roads don’t build themselves, teachers need to eat, fires don’t put themselves out, and tornadoes don’t warn you when conditions are just right for them tear down your house, just to pick a few examples out of the air.
At the Portland Press Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal offers some concrete examples, some from her personal experience, illustrating the validity of Holmes’s sentiment and suggests that
