Stay on point

To the editor:

This is regarding Ben Compton’s “Flat tax could be smooth solution” column in the March 25 issue of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.

I found the columns of Compton’s jabberwocky excruciating and wearisome. He tried to explain how the current tax system hurts citizens and small business while encouraging the corporate world to exploit it — all the while failing to promote a flat tax as the headline suggests.

Why did Ben waste our time with his longwinded explanations? The public always has understood the problem of how the tax system screws us over. We live it. We hate it. We know it needs reform.

Maybe a better use of Compton’s “talents” would be in the tedious undertaking of convincing Murkowski, Begich and Young that the flat tax idea may have merit rather than explaining to us the topics of his neighborhood fireside chats.

Hint: stay on point, and if you can’t practice brevity, give it more thought.

Clarence Everingham

Wasilla