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We received a letter in December from the Georgia Department of Revenue Taxpayers Services Division asking people to file electronically and telling why it is best. The postage was 33 cents. How many millions of these letters went out? And we are told the state has no money.
My husband is a government employee and has had no raise in two years. I have had no Social Security increase in two years.
So where did they get the money to send out these unnecessary letters at 33 cents a pop, not to mention the paper they used and somebody's time to print them and put them in the envelopes?
I don't understand. It seems that government has the money to "waste" where they want to "waste" it.
Dora Sumner
Cleveland