First, props to The Baltimore Sun for printing the commentary, “U.S. credit gets downgraded as signs of default become clearer” (Nov. 17). This issue, which might be understood by 1% of Americans, will hurt us way more than climate change within the next 25 years.
When tax rates have to go north of 75%, everyone will ask, “What the hell is this? Why didn’t George W. Bush have a war tax for his Iraq and Afghanistan invasions? Why was Barack Obama spending wildly and paying zero attention to the Simpson-Bowles fiscal responsibility and reform plan? Why did Donald Trump have a tax cut to help the well off that added $2.5 trillion to the debt? And why didn’t Trump and Joe Biden have a COVID-19 tax?”
Make no mistake, members of Congress are at fault for all this, too — both Democrats and Republicans!
I will be long gone when this day of reckoning happens, but I feel sorry for my kids and everyone’s kids.
— Lyle Rescott, Marriottsville
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