POLITICS
It’s not wealth envy — it’s called fairness
I stand with the president. It’s far past time to increase taxes on the super-wealthy. Cutting their taxes sure didn’t seem to do much to create jobs (at least, not in these United States).
I’d go further because I realize that not all of these who benefited ever created jobs in the first place.
So, any of the super-wealthy who didn’t create jobs in the U.S. should be required to repay the tax breaks retroactive to 2000. I’d even add interest and penalties if I had the power.
This isn’t wealth envy. It’s called fairness.
That we even have candidates for president and elected officials saying that we need to cut veteran (and Social Security) benefits is beyond the pale.
Bruce Burnaman, Woodstock
MEDICARE
Poor government, not greedy doctors, at fault
“Obama,GOP set tone for debt showdown” (News, Sept. 20) mentioned that the administration may cut “$248 billion from Medicare over 10 years, with 90 percent of that squeezed from service providers.” Just what do drastic reductions in disbursements really mean? Service providers can simply no longer afford to be “squeezed” and are fighting back.
More and more doctors are refusing to take Medicare patients and a rapidly increasing number of doctors are requiring a annual “membership fee.”
I am in the process of being “fired” for the second time in as many years by a doctor who refuses to operate his practice at a loss. I can’t blame him a bit. This is not a case of greedy doctors but is a case of a government that is either inept — or that wants to put medical care in crisis mode so that it can be seized and nationalized.
ERNEST WADE, loganville
VIEWPOINTS
For economy, there are no magic bullets
I would like to send kudos to the AJC for the new “balanced views” from both sides of the aisle.
I found that E. J. Dionne Jr. (“Perry may be the one to defeat himself,” Opinion, Sept. 19) and David Brooks (“Power to heal U.S. ills needs dose of reality,” Opinion, Sept. 19) both spoke to my interests with rational arguments.
My viewpoints are not one-dimensional — and neither are our country’s problems. I suspect any long-term solutions will be multidimensional. There are no magic bullets for the economy.
David Murdock, Sharpsburg
