Taxpayers foot the bill

Editor,

Do you have a credit card? I'd like to borrow it and treat my friends to a good time. When I charge it to the limit, more of my friends will raise the spending limit so I can spend more. In the end, you get to pay the bill.

President Bush says he gave us tax breaks. Yet government spending is totally out of control. We have the largest deficit in history at $2.7 trillion and growing by the second.

So who pays the bill for all this government spending? What's the value of a tax break today when, like the credit card bill, we must pay for this federal spending sometime in the near future?

What's more, what's the true value of this tax break when our national economy is in shambles and our society is falling apart?

Have you filled your gas tank this week? Can you afford heating oil this winter? Has your mortgage payment increased during this past year? How about health insurance premiums or prescription drugs?

Will you spend your tax break on Halliburton stock options? Or will you buy cucumbers at $1.29 apiece at Harvest Foods? Most likely your tax break will go right back to Uncle Sam to pay interest on the national debt or to build a new Humvee that some "insurgent" will blow up the following week.

I agree with President Bush that it's nice to have extra money in my pocket. But with the policies he's pushing, from war with Iraq to new generations of nuclear weapons, it might be time to invest this spare change in a new direction for America.

David Daniels

Ronan