To the editor:

The bill mentioned in the May 9 issue would let seniors receive up to $1,500 off their property taxes, (which are exponentially rising) by volunteering their time for the town in various jobs. They would earn a minimum wage of $10.10 to $10.50 per hour. This seems like indenturing workers who are on fixed incomes trying to keep their homes and properties which they wanted to enjoy after retiring. And many people, for many reasons, cannot go back to work.

Yes, AARP says it is healthy for seniors to keep involved with life for the health of their minds and their general well being and to further enjoy a world outside instead of what was their once working world. The idea was to explore because they can. But, I don’t think the bill mentioned by the senator is what AARP had in mind.

This town is destroying some people’s lives, even those who are not yet senior citizens, by their constant need for more and more money for projects that should have been given more thought before acting upon. Haste makes a whole lot of hurt.

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” — George Washington Carver.

Barbara Flanders

Barrington