To the Editor:

The year 2013 will see any number of tax increases at all levels of government. The re-elected president will begin with a nearly $1.6 trillion tax hike, which is just more of the same. Medicare taxes will go up for everyone, and Al Gore wants a new tax on fuels.

However, here in November and December, watch those legal notices of approved tax levies that must be published. This is how your property taxes increase every year. Some of our taxing bodies did show some restraint by holding down their tax hikes in the past two or three years, as our home values sank and the economy tanked with many foreclosures.