Letters: Apr. 18, 1983

Dodging Taxes

To the Editors:

Tax cheating [March 28] would not be increasing if the Government's excessive spending habits were brought under control. If our elected representatives cannot come to grips with Government waste, the citizen's only recourse is to stop giving them money.

Will Pearson

West Jordan, Utah

If I could believe that my taxes were indeed going to "families in the slums," as Attorney Philip Weinstein says, I would be happy to pay. Unfortunately, most of my tax dollar is used to finance nuclear weapons, oppressive foreign regimes and other causes of human misery.

Michelle R. Hebert

Gresham, Ore.

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