Letters

A friend just bought my attention to the letter by Ed Surgan, who states that I want to raise your (who is your?) taxes [“It’s Politics,” Letters, May 22]. I said nothing of the sort. I suggested that we need a sound decision-making process, not political posturing. I said, simply, you can’t cut revenue (by cutting taxes) and increase spending (both parties, on all sorts of things), and balance your budget. My final line was: Glad these people are not managing my money. I object to his misreading and mischaracterization of my thoughts.

I will note that The New York Times estimates that most people will save about $750 per year under the proposed reconciliation bill. The upper class will save as much as $82,000. This inequality and short-focused management is destroying us.

Jenga has become my favorite way to visualize this. Keep pulling blocks out of the middle and passing them to the top. Fairly quickly, the entire thing collapses.

Amy Paradise

Hampton Bays