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Draconian budget

Regarding the op-ed piece “Trump budget Ryan’s dream” in the March 12 issue of The Spokesman-Review, the POTUS budget is a disgrace to the citizens of this great country. He is slowly making the U.S. into a third-world country.

It’s bad enough that the GOP tax reform gave most of the money to the corporations and the wealthy. Now, he is trying to put more of a burden on the 99 percent. Most of us will pay more taxes than Amazon — which is paying zero federal tax for 2017-18. Plus, Amazon is getting a $789 million benefit from the GOP tax return.

It’s time to trim the Military Industrial Complex and have the corporations pay their fair share of taxes. A quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower: “every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

I am a veteran for peace and against war and regime changes.

John Wodynski

Cheney

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