Letter: Different view on U.S. economy

Thursday, Feb. 14, 2002 | 8:46 a.m.

President Bush is right about taxes. When Ronald Reagan, our greatest president, rightly give the top taxpayers a 60 percent tax cut (from 70 to 28 percent) he taught us that greed is a virtue. Tax cuts create investment capital that always creates jobs even if working people have no money to buy the goods that those jobs produce.

When President Bush introduced Russian President Putin at the ranch in Crawford, he said, "they have a flat tax." If it wasn't for liberal Democrats, we could have as good an economy as the Russians have.

Ted Kennedy, a classic tax-and-spend liberal Democrat, refuses to admit that his taxes are too high and that he should be taxed at the same flat rate as a schoolteacher.

If a poorly educated orphan from a ghetto doesn't want a good job in high-tech and loses his job at Burger Depot, let him go to a church for his welfare because a government's only job should be to protect the haves from the have-nots, either foreign or domestic. Why should my hard-earned inheritance be taxed and redistributed to someone who was too lazy to be born into a family with money and influence?

Why does our country have to put up with unions? Mexico has never had a union and they have a great economy.

JIM RILEY