Editor:
Facts? In a recent letter, Mr. Scales said he would present some, and then proceeded to provide hogwash (Mailbox, March 20). While I agree with him that the national debt is out of control and needs to be addressed, an important fact he forgot to mention was that in the first term of Trump and his cretinous buddies, the gross national debt grew from $19.95 trillion to $27.75 trillion — a $7.8 trillion increase. And the large tax cuts he gave his ultra-wealthy friends and corporations worked, because they got him re-elected in 2024. Trump and DOGE are not trimming around the edges, they are razing government as we have known it, gutting and disposing of beneficial and necessary agencies and employees for very small savings, all so they can provide more tax cuts for the super rich.
Projections are that his proposed tax cuts will decrease tax revenue by around $4 trillion annually, minimally. The national debt is projected to increase by almost $25 trillion over the next 10 years, excluding the Trump tax breaks. Yes, taxpayers should pay their fair share, and I am not talking about you and me. Tesla paid $0 in income tax last year on almost $3 billion income and $48 million over the last three years on around $11 billion income. The same savings were had by the grinning chimps sitting on the inaugural dais.
I agree, tough and difficult decisions need to be made for the health of our country. They certainly won’t be made by the clowns who are currently doing all they can to destroy our democratic republic, so they can replace it with an authoritarian, white supremacist, self-serving state. There are major problems that need to be addressed rapidly, but the current regime is not going to be who does it.
Ryan Lee, McKinleyville
This article appears in Cal Poly Presents’ Season of Change.