To the editor:

I was on the committee for designing and building the current Woolwich Town Office. There was only one person who did tax collection, town clerk business and registered motor vehicles.

Don’t tell me there are more people now, because we old people are dying off. We had just as many positions to fill as now.

That one person had three children and wrote checks by hand on one counter, not two desks — with no computer.

Taking out a “government” loan to pay for the building means that taxpayers are just paying for it a different way. The government is us.

If you are on the last payment of anything, why can’t you give it a rest?

I am retired and on a fixed income. My pay scale doesn’t go up. Gas, food and taxes are all going up.

What happens to us retired people? We are sitting ducks. I am getting tired.

Sylvia Carlton,
Woolwich

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