Letter: Congress decides all tax matters

Friday, Feb. 4, 2000 | 10:10 a.m.

President Reagan often replied to false negative attacks by saying, "There they go again." Letter writer James Poupard is among the chorus of liberals who use scare mongering and false accusations to manipulate people to vote Democrat.

Reagan's debt, Reagan's debt, they cry wolf. Here I go again.

Those of you who are not Democrat zombies and actually care about America and the truth, get online, go to your local bookstore or library and read the Constitution of the United States. You will find that the U.S. government works far differently than what you have been told.

Only Congress can write tax laws, increases and cuts. Only Congress can allocate those taxes collected. Only Congress can issue national debt. I will make this point as simple as possible. The president of the United States cannot spend a single red cent without the approval of Congress -- not Reagan, not Bush, not Clinton.

Did you not hear President Clinton in the State of the Union address repeatedly thank Congress for its support for this and that program? Then plead for more money for the programs? Why should he plead to Congress? He is the president, right?

Right. And as a Democratic president, he knows he does not get a dime to spend, or tax cut to target without the approval of the Republican Congress.

How can Reagan be more responsible for government spending and national debt than the Democratic Congress he served with? I have not found a liberal yet who will give me an honest, logical answer.

RODNEY K. SMITH