Needs look in mirror

French Hill, in the letter recently published on Voices, asserted that his vote on the Affordable Health Care Act had been misrepresented. If Mr. Hill wants to see a person who misrepresents information, he needs to look at himself in the mirror. His vote was to abolish many facets of the ACA and would have made insurance so expensive that many Americans would not be able to afford the coverage.

Mr. Hill was born to a life of economic privilege. It seems he has no idea about poverty and the working poor. Many Arkansans struggle to provide food, housing, and health care for their families. The tax cut passed by Congress with Mr. Hill’s vote is tilted toward the wealthy. The temporary tax cut is not enough to change this situation. The median income in Arkansas, as measured by the federal government, is $42,336. The only state lower than us is Mississippi. He claimed he was saving family farms by eliminating the estate tax but the change in the law temporarily doubles the exemption amount for estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes from the $5 million base, set in 2011, to a new $10 million base, good for tax years 2018 through 2025. If

your estate is less than $10 million, there is no tax, and if it is over, then you pay only on the amount above $10 million. Another trip to the mirror, please, Mr. Hill.

Now Republicans are claiming that the national deficit, which was made much larger by the tax changes they passed, must be addressed. Their solution is to destroy Medicare and Social Security. A vote for Mr. Hill will be a vote to decrease economic and health-care security in Arkansas and increase suffering. My federal taxes have gone up because of Mr. Hill and his Republican colleagues.

We need Clarke Tucker to represent us in Congress.

JOHN ROLLANS

Little Rock