2008-06-12
Litchfield — I would like to respond to NANCY PEAVY’s Self Employed Rely on Dirigo Health (Opinions) on 06/09/08.
My wife and I are also self-employed. We can not afford any type of insurance. We own (for the time being) a convenience store locally. We have watched all sorts of taxes skyrocket along with fuel prices in the past two years. We have watched our sales slow as much as 40 percent. People are going without now, because of these increases. I’ve watched many times, a customer come in the store, count out what change they have in their pocket and purchase maybe a gallon of gas and leave.
If everything continues at this rate, my family and I will become just another statistic very soon. We don’t need any new taxes !. What we do need is to elect a new government who will put health care out on the free market, which has already been proven to lower cost. Immediately start drilling for oil and building refineries in our own country. Let us elect officials who see nuclear power in this state as an absolute necessity. Let’s elect a governor who will reign in spending, cut taxes and police our welfare system. I have witnessed way too many people come in my store and try to purchase everything but necessities. These people deserve no help.
I feel sorry for Nancy and others who think like her. They want me and my customers to support a failed health care system. They don’t go to bed every night sick to their stomach worrying about what’s going to happen if one of their family becomes ill. I do, I have no insurance, and possibly no future at all because my family and my business are being taxed to death.
Let’s get behind the people’s veto folks and tell the current administration to STUFF IT !!.
Sincerely,
Dana Orr
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