The GOP’s goring of the middle class, simplified
Regarding the Republican Party’s goring of the middle class: Despite the GOP leadership’s refusal to hold a single hearing on the most important tax bill of the century, it is not really that hard to understand. Here is how it will work. Every millionaire will get a cow. Every working family will get a handful of magic beans. Every child in America, rich and poor alike, will inherit an additional $4,430 in debt to the Chinese.
This fairy tale is far closer to the truth than the one being spun by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Pennsylvania’s Sen. Pat Toomey. MICHAEL COYNE
Munhall pursuing higher education. Don’t punish us for seeking the upward mobility that education promises. Protect the growth of the middle class and the whole country wins. Do not take away the tax deductions for people paying back student loans. KATE CAREY
Shadyside
In 2016, on an impulse, I ran for U.S. Senate as an independent. I became involved because of the anger and hate I was seeing as a result of the 2016 election. I saw much frustration and resentment toward those who take advantage of welfare, government programs and benefits of immigration, basically the mostdisadvantaged and poor.
We are blaming the wrong people! Our nation’s wealth is being sucked out of the economy, and there is no longer enough money in the economy for those at the bottom to find opportunity and jobs to support themselves. The more wealth becomes concentrated and inaccessible at the top, the more the people at the bottom are forced to become “beggars” and dependent on the governmentto subsidize life.
I am a businessman and a fiscal conservative. I am appealing to Donald Trump supporters and Republicans. Tax cuts are fine, but not for corporations and the wealthy. They are both already doing great.
We cannot allow the wealthiest to become even more powerful or to further concentrate our nation’s resources. Long-term prosperity will require us to find a way to break up the monopoly the wealthiest have on the resources that belong to us. This experiment called the United States of America is about we the people. We are not a nation of kings, but it seems we have allowed ourselvesto drift toward just that.
In the 1940s to 1970s, when our nation was a global powerhouse,
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thewealthiest were taxed at over 70 percent. That money made its way back into infrastructure, wages and defense. When the wealthy have more, it does not trickle down and they do not share it with employees. They basically hoard it. Today the three wealthiest people in our nation have more wealth than 50 percentof the U.S. population. BRANDON HUDOCK
Peters
Strikes couldn’t get me to stop watching NFL games. Player steroid use didn’t make me stop. President Donald Trump’s spurious national anthem scandal didn’t, either. But SkyCam? SkyCam’s gonna make me turn offthe TV and turn on the radio.
What a terrible, terrible viewing experience. I didn’t think it possible to make “Thursday Night Football” worse, but NBC and the NFL did it during the Nov. 16 Steelers game, when SkyCam provided the primary view. SkyCam needs to join Fox’s glowing hockey puck and Tebowing in the trash heap of sports fads. DAN SPARVERO Penn Hills