Covering up history is a big mistake
The guest column by Gene Kansas (“Build on our history, not over it,” Opinion, April 16) hits a nerve. I have long said that covering up and eliminating history as it actually was is a terrible mistake. Even though parts of our past are not popular, they should never be removed and erased, because they are a part of our roots. The city that destroys evidence of its roots cheapens itself. All of the great cities such as London, Paris, and New York move forward, but yet find a way to remember their roots. Also, I feel that downgrading, removing, and redeveloping historic sites is wrong. I propose that we should pay proper respect to the past without taking our eyes off the road up ahead for too long. By this, I mean I am not opposed to our city looking forward, but please do not destroy our very roots by removing the past. Kudos to Mr. Kansas.
ALTON POWELL, CHATTAHOOCHEE HILLS
Obama didn’t start wealth gap
A writer’s letter (“The rich manipulate taxes to stay rich,” April 21) surprised me by its distortion of history. The writer says it’s President Obama’s fault that the tax code benefits the rich and super-rich.
These changes to the tax code benefiting the ruling class didn’t begin in 2008, no, we need to go back in history to 1980, where this began. Reagan touted the lower tax model for the wealthy and called this trickle down economics while George H.W. Bush referred to this as voodoo economics.
The plan was simple, lower taxes on the ruling class, keep wages from increasing by a freeze on the minimum wage, and fight the unions. We immediately saw a lower capital gains tax, also benefiting the rich. These changes to the tax code have been in force since then.
DAVE FEDACK, LITHIA SPRINGS
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