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LETTERS, Page 8Capital-Gains Fallout
Your piece on the debate over capital-gains-tax reduction
(NATION, Oct. 9) did not mention that decades of giveaways by the
liberals have left our Government in a fiscal mess; their solution
is to raise taxes. At least Republicans have the sense to see that
these failed programs are hurting both the poor and the middle
class. Reducing the capital-gains tax would provide an incentive
to buy and sell assets. The measure would save the wealthy far more
money than it would ordinary taxpayers. However, many middle-class
investors would also profit and probably reinvest their gains.Those
who risk more should receive more than those who risk less.
W. Kirk Bell
Washington
The Government tries to give tax breaks without taking measures
to diminish the deficit. How are our children going to pay?
President Bush proposes reducing federal education funding by $400
million, and this will assuredly not help our young people learn
the skills they will need in order to deal with this debt. Drugs
are the American answer to the disappointed and disillusioned; they
are an escape from an unacceptable reality. Is this the heritage
we wish to leave?
Beatrice M. Shushan
Gualala, Calif.