Letter: GOP’s dangerous tax plan ... why now?
In a time when corporations’ tax burden is only half of what it was in the 1950s and 60s; when the annual federal budget deficit is still $440 billion; when unemployment and inflation are low and when we need to spend billions on U.S. infrastructure; and when wealth inequality is reaching the highest level since the great depression, Trump and the Republicans are proposing a tax package where half of the tax cuts will go to the wealthiest 1 percent in the U.S and will increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion.
Why pass this tax scam? And why would you expect our Representative, Dan Newhouse, to show any backbone and vote against this farce?
Max Faulkner, West Richland
This story was originally published December 8, 2017 at 5:01 PM with the headline "Letter: GOP’s dangerous tax plan ... why now?."