To the editor: The aim of excellent authorities is to serve the individuals. This prices cash, which is normally supplied by means of taxation. The trick is to discover a higher steadiness than deficit spending.
Contributing author Veronique De Rugy presents the classical conservative argument that the federal government is just too huge, inefficient and costly (“Trump’s budget would lock in big-government spending and deficits,” Could 8). Thus, the treatment is to chop it with a series noticed, as even the President Trump-Elon Musk effort is inadequate. Although effectiveness and effectivity should at all times be aggressively pursued, an excellent authorities should work to guard our surroundings and supply for the well being and welfare of the individuals.
Moreover, it’s authorities assist of schooling and analysis that made us a world chief and gave us an financial system that has been the envy of the world. The opposite facet of the equation is offering sufficient honest taxation to pay for it. Permitting the 2017 tax reduce for the wealthy to run out would take us a part of the way in which.
Michael Telerant, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The author claims that Social Safety, Medicare and Medicaid are the first drivers of our present debt. Nonsense! From the Seventies to as we speak, federal spending has hovered around 20% of GDP — larger in recession, decrease in peace and prosperity. Throughout that very same interval, federal income has ranged from 14.5% to twenty% of GDP, in accordance with the Tax Policy Center. Because it approached 20%, it was hit by Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts, George W. Bush’s tax cuts and, most not too long ago, President Trump’s tax cuts. The structural deficits of as we speak are the direct results of irresponsible Republican tax cuts, not spending.
Norman Rodewald, Moorpark
