Wrong on taxes

The July 31 Letters section contained two letters that were clearly false and misleading.

Mr. Wordinger claimed that cuts make sense because “economists universally acknowledge raising taxes during a recession is bad for the economy.” That might be true for economists on the Fox network of misinformation, but there are many economists – Paul Krugman (winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics 2009), Robert Reich (President Clinton’s economic adviser) and Dean Baker – who all agree that cutting taxes for the wealthy does not create jobs and recommend eliminating the Bush tax cuts to the top 2 percent.

Also Ms. Hall’s letter in the same vein claims that the Republican (read tea party) plan to make Medicare a voucher system “saves the program.” A voucher system that pays one third to one quarter of the expenses of nonexistent senior medical plans would kill Medicare. Making their plan not apply to seniors 55 and older, they think, will make the plan pass because, they think, seniors would look out for themselves and stab their children in the back.

Not all seniors are like the tea partiers and Ms. McMorris Rodgers. We love our children and our country.

David Randall

Spokane