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Letter: Tax cuts are big heist

By David Reed, Vancouver
Published: February 21, 2018, 6:00am

President Trump and the GOP in Congress (including our own Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground) passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut with promises of “more money in your pocket.” Now — with the president’s new budget proposal — he’s suggesting government should cut food stamps to save money. Instead, we should ship care packages of government goods to poor families. I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that he has (or will soon create) a private corporation to oversee deliveries. Privatization is the future, or so I’ve been told.

If there were ever a question of who benefited from the “tax cut,” it should now be obvious. A great many were fooled into believing they were looking out for us. But, in reality, they schemed and toiled to gift our money to corporations and the wealthy. This will be known as one of the greatest heists in history. And we should all know who to thank for it. Shame on them? Or shame on us for letting them get away with it?

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