Your Opinion: Prosperous community does not need grants

Dear Editor:

I am submitting this letter to an issue which I feel is very pertinent in part to the financial woes and rapidly growing debt waste problems that this country is due to and how it continues to pile up.

As a long-time resident and homeowner in the neighboring small community of Holts Summit I see day in and day out just how recklessly the senseless needless wasteful unwarranted giveaways of perhaps hundreds upon hundreds of thousands, if not millions of taxpayer funded federal and state grant moneys are just simply given away to completely self sustaining and financially strong communities like mine and others just like it all over this country. My question would be why?

Why must my small community and others like it feel the need to freely ask and in fact get all these giveaways from the hard-working taxpayers of this state and country? It's not right, moral, ethical, and it certainly is not fair to the American taxpayer. As most local and Mid-Missourians know, Holts Summit is one of if not the most rapidly growing and prosperous communities in the entire region. Hundreds and hundreds of brand new high-end homes being built along with successful upstart businesses. The national headquarters and corporate offices of Pro foods, or Champs Chicken is just one prime example of this tremendous growth.

So as a long-time citizen here, I say why? We certainly do not need or warrant government handouts. The way I see it is that we can sustain ourselves just fine without seeming like a charity case to the American taxpayer. We have an above norm tax base and substantially generous revenues coming in now to be a charity case to the government.

Perhaps some justification of real and sincere need and documentation should be in order before any more fed and state moneys even begin to be considered. We don't need it and there are others in this country that certainly do need it a lot worse than we do.

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