LOWEST IN TAXES, TOPS IN METHAMPHETAMINE

Tennessee had two dubious honors in your Sept. 10 edition.

The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration reported that Tennessee in
2003 had the most methamphetamine labs cleaned up of any state for the
third year in a row ("Meth's family destruction worsens, report says;
more kids taken from their parents"), and that Tennessee is home to 75
percent of the meth labs in the Southeast.

Meanwhile the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation reported that
Tennessee had the lowest state and local tax burden of any state in
2002 ("Tenn. tops in low taxes, group says").

I guess you get what you pay for.

Joe Gillis,

Adamsville, Tenn.