I agree 100 percent with Jeremy Owen's Aug. 24 letter, that Democrats have pursued a failed Marxist strategy. Just look at the facts: 50 years ago, the top tax rate was 90 percent, now it's only 35 percent; the top 1 percent owned 35 percent of the country's wealth, and they still do.

It's the same pattern if you look at income: The ratio of CEO salaries to worker salaries was 50-to-1, now it's 400-to-1. The 1 percent richest share of the income went up an average of 130 percent in the last 30 years. The income share of the bottom 80 percent of earners decreased 20 percent.

You don't need any more proof than that for a failed strategy! And the Democrats think they can turn the tables by increasing the maximum tax rate on the rich from 35 percent to 38 percent?

If this is really class warfare we're seeing, which class is winning? "Soak the rich" must mean "shower them with money."

Eric Greenwell, Richland