Tax reform is murder

Dear Editor: Sadly and disturbingly, the billionaires have won again, taking $1 trillion over the next 10 years for their obscene tax cuts.

We all know who will be hurt by their greed: children, students, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid recipients, those without health care, etc. In short, the richest are once again robbing the rest of us.

But why don’t we call this by what it really is? Murder. Those who can’t afford medication and treatment will be killed because people like the Koch brothers want more mansions and yachts. Billionaires are psychopaths — no amount is ever enough, and they are willing to murder any number of the poor to get more.

A sane society would lock people like this up. They are a mortal danger to millions of Americans. Incarcerating them would protect them from the next parent who watches a child die for lack of adequate medical treatment, or from the next enraged spouse whose husband or wife couldn’t afford insulin. Someday, people may go looking for those who murder for limitless greed.

Whole societies have turned on their filthy rich when life became unbearable. The French Revolution beheaded people who lived in vast palaces while millions starved. Perhaps it is only a matter of time before people in this country start shouting “off with their heads.”

Fred Nagel, Rhinebeck