To the editor: The purpose of a good government is to serve the people. It costs money, which is generally provided by tax. The trick is to find a better balance than deficit expenditure.
The writer contributing Véronique de Rugy presents the classic conservative argument according to which the government is too large, ineffective and expensive (“Trump's budget would lock expenses and deficits to large government”, “ May 8). Thus, healing is to cut it with a chain saw, because even the musk effort of President Trump-Elon is insufficient. Although efficiency and efficiency must always be prosecuted aggressively, good government must work to protect our environment and predict the health and well-being of the people.
In addition, it was the government's support for education and research that has made us a world leader and gave us an economy that made the world's desire. The other side of the equation is to pay enough fair taxation to pay it. Allowing the 2017 tax reduction for the rich to expire would take us.
Michael Telerant, Los Angeles
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To the publisher: The writer claims that social security, Medicare and Medicaid are the main engines of our current debt. Absurdity! From the 1970s to today, federal spending oscillated About 20% of GDP – higher in recession, weaker in peace and prosperity. During this same period, federal income varied from 14.5% to 20% of GDP, according to the Tax policy. As 20%approach, it was affected by Ronald Reagan's tax cuts, George W. Bush's tax cuts and, more recently, the tax cuts by President Trump. Today's structural deficits are the direct result of irresponsible republican tax reductions, not spending.
Norman Rodewald, Moorpark
