Reagan and ‘Tax Cheating’
The President of the United States “expressing sympathy for the ‘cult of cheating’ among American taxpayers” impels me to write, to defend myself and those of us who do not consider tax cheating part of “modern American morals.”
The President apparently speaks for his associates when he says “cheating a system that is itself a cheat . . . that isn’t a sin, it’s a duty.” He does not speak for me. Nor does he speak for many others who regard taxes as part of the price necessary to have the quality of life we’ve come to value in the United States. The President of the United States owes an apology to millions of taxpayers who do not cheat.
M.C. CHAPMAN
Poway
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