Repeal leads to tax breaks

Remember the advertisement that showed grandma being pushed over a cliff in a wheelchair? Well, President Trump and the Republican Party have already tried to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which would have resulted in the ultimate removal of 24 million people from the health care rolls. Now they are talking of trying to do it again.

It has been reported that there are 62 programs and other regulations that President Trump and the Republican Party have marked for budget cuts, if not for outright elimination. Some of these are the agencies that Republicans have railed against for decades, such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the EPA. All these agencies have a positive effect on the lives of the working class Americans but not for the rich.

Even if President Trump says that Social Security isn’t in his cross hairs, the Republican Party does want to reduce or abolish Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

President Trump and the Republican Party cannot introduce tax reform unless they have money to give to the rich and this is how they will get it.

Lawrence Schuchart

Spokane