Re: "MPAC's merely part of assessment problem," (editorial, April 6), may I suggest editorials such as this one are another part of the problem.

One sentence in your editorial gave me hope that this time someone was moral enough, intelligent enough and compassionate enough to tell it like it is.

For example, "That the assessment system used now to compute property taxes is bitterly unfair."

The sentence that gave me hope and I quote was: "Assessment after all was designed initially to insure that rich property owners were taxed more," etc. That is not happening today.

There are good, law-abiding Canadian citizens who are struggling to keep homes on fixed low incomes, but are in danger of losing them due to high property taxes.

You must realize poor people pay a much higher percent of their income on this regressive tax.

In your editorial, you started out okay but you "dropped the ball" on your solutions to this problem in that you do not acknowledge the fact that property tax costs must be based on one's ability to pay.

Should a person be penalized because he or she owns some land which has been in the family for 100 years ?

Should people on a fixed modest income not be allowed to pass on to their heirs, unencumbered, their modest - by much of the country's standards - possessions, gained after a life time of hard work?

How can it be fair (to use an imaginary example) for someone whose income is say $30,000 yearly to pay $2,500 in property taxes today. Tomorrow the property is sold to someone whose income is $500,000 yearly, and that person still pays the same $2,500. This is unacceptable !

Billie Power

Mansfield