Editor’s note: In an editorial on June 3 we asked readers to give us their comments on the July 31 vote on T-SPLOST, a regional sales tax increase to pay for a long list of transportation projects in the 10-county Three Rivers region of West Georgia. Here is a second installment of what our readers had to say:

— How about the government stop wasting money and just spend on necessities like I have to do? Vote a resounding no on additional taxes. How much is enough -- 10 percent, 12 percent, 20 percent?

— Why not ask the politicians that receive a full retirement for serving one term in office to give that up? We would save millions in Georgia.

— As if we don’t pay enough taxes already? Another one cent doesn’t seem like much, but when you add all of the other taxes it’s already close to 50 we pay in taxes. We as taxpayers live on a budget. It’s about time the government makes do with what it has and get on a budget.

— We need to keep ahead of the wave. Raising gasoline taxes may be an answer. But as cars become more fuel efficient, revenues go back down. If we want improvement, we need to pay for it. A consumption tax is the fairest. We certainly do not need a property tax increase, which is certainly an option if we do not pass this.

— There isn’t a food tax, per se. Your groceries are exempt from the 4 percent state sales tax. They are not exempt from local taxes, which are at 3 percent in Coweta right now. They will go to 4 percent in Coweta if this is voted in.

— The county and state need to be frugal and live with the hand they have been dealt. Quit inviting the world to live here, quit building factories with low-income jobs and quit spending like a mega-millions winner. Government works for us. Many of us are local, others moved here for the quality of life. We do not want to become Riverdale, Atlanta or Gwinnett.

— Coweta wants another penny. We have no money, but we are getting a new fire station in Madras and new schools. I say no to T-SPLOST. Get your monies from the school system. They have a bigger wallet than mine. Let me spend my money since I earned it.

— Why do you not acknowledge there is another option for the government — just cut back. Nothing on that list is a real need. We fix and use what we have now, and we make do.

— My income was cut in half when my spouse lost a job three years ago. I can hardly make ends meet. I get zero government help. If I could, I’d sell my house and move to a state that doesn’t impose state taxes.

— My thoughts are this newspaper and the local Chamber control big chunks of the local media. Just as they did with the last SPLOST vote, they will do everything they can to sell this to voters as a good thing. It’s not. I am voting no.

— This is what happened to Rome — taxed to death.

— Our problem is not collecting too few taxes, it is spending too much. Our elected officials can’t be trusted to spend our tax dollars honestly. Vote no. If we don’t give them the money, they won’t waste it.

— I do not have confidence they will stop collecting the tax after 10 years (look at Georgia 400 highway tolls). Nor do I have confidence that the current GDOT will handle the money well.

— I am 61 years old and have been paying taxes since I was 17. My son graduated in 1991 from Newnan High and joined the Navy. For 21 years I have been paying school taxes and no kids in school. We need tax reform. Let’s have the people that keep having babies pay more taxes. My job is complete. Leave me alone.

— I hope by reading these comments you can clearly see we the people are tired of being taxed.

— This is political blackmail. If we don’t vote on and pass this ridiculous tax, then we will certainly pay anyway when the tax on gasoline is raised without our vote. Let’s get these bums out.

— I’m a hard-working middle-class person, and I’ve seen my paycheck stay pretty much the same for the last few years (with higher health care and food costs). Meanwhile, the rich are making four times as much as they used to and pay less in taxes. Every time there’s a budget crunch, politicians always want to increase taxes on working folks, but they give rich people tax breaks. Let the rich pay for it. I’m tapped out.