Poor tax cut decisions

Dear editor:

Well, good readers, Paul Bryan is at it again. He has introduced a bill reducing a number of benefits and benefits that will lower our standard of living. We are not No. 1 in standard of living in the world now; this will put us lower on the totem pole.

The reductions? Cut Medicaid by $1.5 trillion; cut Medicare (a benefit paid for, not a welfare item) by $537 million; cut $59 billion from veteran care (wake up vets); cut Social Security by $4 billion (come alive retirees who paid for this as workers); cut college student aid by $231 billion ( go demonstrate college and university students); cut infrastructure by $317 billion (and the present administration declares it wants to improve infrastructure).

Why all these cuts? Supposedly to pay for the recent tax cut which gave advantage 83 percent to corporations and extremely wealthy, and pittance to the thousands of worker-taxpayers. And another tax cut is in the making. Did you good readers know that?

Those readers in my age bracket remember some poor tax cut decisions of the not too distant past:

1. The George H.W. Bush cuts benefiting corps and wealthy, resulting in his “read my lips” turn around by raising the cuts back, or face a heavy recession. He did raise them back and a recession was avoided. (He also lost the next election.)

2. The Reagan tax cuts, resulting in a severe recession. He worked with a Demo Congress and put the cuts back in by raising the taxes and within three years the economy grew and grew.

3. The George W. Bush tax cuts. Same thing. Heavy recession.

Don’t believe it? Read the history of those presidents? Lazy voting citizens who depend only on TV smatches of the news are ill-informed to be able to vote the next time around. Emotions do not often result in benefits for the populace. Want a better government benefiting the poor, low income, middle income — the majority, then read, read and use common sense before voting. John W. “Doc” Crawford Hot Springs