Opinion: In Tuesday’s Letters to the editor
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In Tuesday’s Letters to the editor, responses to this article about President Barack Obama’s proposed budget and its affect on wealthy Americans. Does the document amount to an opening shot in the class wars? Gary Nagy, of Gardena, thinks not:
Brian Reidl, budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, says President Obama’s tax plan amounts to class warfare against the rich. What he doesn’t seem to realize is that if the growing inequality between the rich and the poor and the shrinking middle class continues as it has during the past 10-plus years, we are apt to experience real class warfare. Supply-side, trickle-down economics has been thoroughly discredited. It has resulted in an unstable economy and a less equitable society.
But Kay Santos, of Diamond Bar, is calling out the cavalry. She writes:
I have no incentive to hire people or expand my business, because the more I make, the more President Obama will take to expand government. This discourages expansion of the private sector. It will backfire with disastrous consequences for all. It is repulsive that Obama is being allowed to take this country backward by pickpocketing the very people who run the private sector through their energy, money and creativity.
And letters readers are also joining the fray. In an e-mail sent this morning, Eugene Wood of Fountain Valley marvels:
Santos says she is going to cut back production and lay off several employees, thus contributing, in her own small way, to increasing unemployment and worsening the economy even though it will have no effect on her income? This cutting off one’s own nose seems all too typical of the ‘Grand Outmoded Party’s’ lack of concern for anyone but themselves.
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