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I am a 100-year-old citizen with the good fortune of enjoying a life of hard work and success. I am one of the 5 percent of earners that everyone is talking about and I do not want or need lower taxes.
I want a more equitable country, affordable higher education for all of our citizens, full access to health care and a clean environment.
I have never been as discouraged and frustrated as I am with the Trump administration and the transparent avarice of the Republican Party's assault on average Americans, particularly the poor.
It is documented that 90 percent of the new wealth generated over the last 40 years has gone to the top 20 percent. That Republicans are pursuing tax cuts for the wealthy as if they are a beleaguered class in need of immediate financial relief is absurd on its face.
With all the obvious needs of our country, to propose to borrow money to give to those that already have almost all of it is simply obscene.
The wealthy need to use their clout to speak up and stop this taking and begin to follow the example of generations of Americans before them and put their country first.
Barbara L. Tanner
Holladay