The temporary income tax reduction for 2012 enacted by the Anne Arundel County Council is silly and a slap in the face for the average worker ("Arundel council reduces income tax rate," June 22).

Any temporary cut can always come back to haunt the working family that makes a responsible monthly budget. Then throw in that the cut is just 35 bucks a year? You have to be kidding.

For a person earning $50,000, any little amount helps. But to be insulted with just $35 for 2012, then in 2013 have it taken away again is more painful than a pencil in the ear.

The county council needs to come off the cruise ship with folks earning $100,000 plus a year and realize Anne Arundel County is as much a blue-collar county as a white-collar one.

Steve Reigle, Severn