Honorable Sen. John Curtis, Sen. Mike Lee, Rep. Blake Moore:
I have a question.
So let me get this straight. We Republicans are determined to balance the budget at any cost, even at the cost of human life. According to UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, “If USAID cuts continue, more than 14 million additional deaths could occur by 2030, including over 4.5 million among children under 5, or about 700,000 extra child deaths per year.”
Also, we are closing 300 hospitals by cutting $50.4 billion from Medicaid. But wait. We cut $50.4 billion from Medicaid but then we spend $45 billion on detention centers with which to imprison a good share of America’s work force? Detention centers are more important than hospitals?
Well OK, we Republicans are tough minded. If children have to die, that is unfortunate, but we simply cannot saddle our children with ruinous debt. We all have to make sacrifices.
After all the sacrifices we impose on most Americans to reduce our public debt, what’s the bottom line? We’re adding $2.8 trillion plus interest to our public debt because of the extension of the 2017 tax cuts that benefit mostly the ultra-wealthy? What? Something is wrong here. Shouldn’t our ultra-wealthy be making sacrifices along with the rest of us?
Charles Ashurst, Logan
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