LETTERS: TO CUT TAXES, CUT COSTLY PROGRAMS

To the editor:

I was reading Peter Kinder's Oct. 26 column in which he pointed out something we Libertarians have been saying for 25 years: Taxation at this rate (40 percent) is immoral.

Taxes deprive families and businesses of earned wealth in which to invest in their future. If we continue to increase taxes at this rate, my 3-year-old granddaughter will have to pay 85 percent of her income to taxes during her working years. This is not something I would wish to leave as my legacy.

Both Republicans and Democrats have been buying political support with programs financed out of the taxpayers' pocketbooks. They sell these programs on the premise that they are needed for the benefit of our children or others who cannot help themselves. They do not seem to understand that the taxes we are paying in support of their programs are why we have these problems in the first place. It is a catch-22.

We have had the House oversight hearings on the IRS in which the panel seemed overly upset with the abuses of power that the IRS uses in collecting the taxes that Congress imposes on the citizenry. The IRS is doing what is mandated by Congress, so if there is a problem, it started with Congress. Wipe the concern off your faces, congressmen, and do something about it. Start with abolishing unneeded programs that depend on their financing through the IRS. Leave the money in the hands of the earner.

JAMES NALL, Chairman

Bollinger County Libertarian Committee

Marble Hill