Geological Survey
The adjacent editorials of Dec. 12 seem to contradict each other.
In one editorial you criticize the incoming Republican Congress for advocating a 60% majority in order to raise taxes and in the other you want to retain the U.S. Geological Survey Program even though it will cost a mere $3.2 billion dollars over the next five years.
Because the great majority always want to save their pet programs and can give hundreds of reasons why they are so beneficial, it is the main reason we have such outrageous deficits.
That’s exactly why the new Republicans want to make it more difficult to raise taxes.
ARNOLD FRIEDMAN
Beverly Hills
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