Dear Editor,
Responding to Rick Simpson’s question about the flavor of the “Blue KoolAid” in the Oct. 20 issue of The Standard. I will gladly explain why I think anyone making over $400K a year should be paying a bit more taxes. Maybe it’s just me, but I believe it is high time we—the middle class—get some relief from being the ones paying for most of the expenses running this country’s programs. (Travel on I-40 and see if infrastructure improvement does not need to be addressed?)
Will you and your friend be so kind to please explain to the rest of us why you think it is acceptable for people like Bezos, Musk, Buffett, Trump, Soros, etc. to get by with paying little to no taxes? Don’t forget big business gets a break as well.
Allowing Biden’s plan for government access to personal bank account transactions of $600 or more has already been ruled out under the Patriot Act? It was signed into law by President George W. Bush in Oct. of 2001. It allows government snooping into every aspect of our lives, including our bank accounts. All this under the guise of curbing money laundering. (Says a lot about less government intrusion into our lives, doesn’t it?)
If you truly believe the I.R.S. doesn’t know all of your financial information, then you probably ought to look into the contents of the “Red Kool-Aid” you are drinking! (You might want to google surveillance under the Patriot Act).
I, for one, worry about the governance of this country. It seems to me that some individuals actually want to kill this great democracy and replace it with a totalitarian form of government, ruled by one particular faction or family. I think this should concern every single American.
I recall studying F.D.R.’s New Deal in high school—maybe you don’t—but apparently the programs brought us out of a very serious depression by instituting programs similar to those of the Biden administration. I do not claim to be any kind of expert, but if history has taught us something, F.D.R.’s plan worked and I don’t see any reason it won’t work again.
Lloyd Dickson
Seligman
