Tax Cuts
* The presidential candidates’ promises of tax cuts for the poor are hollow. Those near and below the so-called “poverty level” rarely pay any income taxes--the special interest of the upper and middle classes only.
The only tax cutting that will help all people--especially the poor, for whom they are an unconscionable drain on their lives--is the elimination of sales and use and other taxes masquerading as license fees, surcharges and “special assessment districts,” the typical bureaucracy-enhancing political plunder that brought the British empire to its knees 225 years ago.
JIM GREAVES
Santa Barbara
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