Important tax cuts

Surprisingly, the local paper sometimes referred to as the Falling Star or Red Star printed a letter to the editor written by yours truly.  The letter went something like this:
I have noticed a number of letters in The Star expressing anger over the so called George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy. I wonder whether those writers are rabid partisans knowingly repeating a lie, or are simply useful in perpetuating class warfare.


Anyone with a modicum of awareness would know that retaining existing tax rates for everyone cannot be construed as a tax cut for the wealthy. Yet so many think the Congress gave tax cuts to the rich before they adjourned.


Debate on whether retention of the tax rates is good for the economy is welcome. History from President John F. Kennedy on has repeatedly proven that allowing earners to keep more of what they earn stimulates growth and results in higher revenue to the federal coffers, not less.


Taking more money from the productive has a stifling effect. We cannot afford the latter in this economic climate.

Frank Bryant
Basehor

As is typical of the Star, they took the liberty of editing my comments to make them less offensive to their kook left readership.  The original second sentence of the first paragraph read:  I wonder whether those writers are rabid partisans knowingly repeating a lie, or are simply useful idiots perpetuating class warfare.

On prior letters they have performed more dramatic edits that changed the intent of my letter, so I guess this wasn't so bad.  I didn't think the term useful idiot was that offensive.  I mean Lenin, one of the gods of the kook left, used it to describe shallow thinkers who stand idle and do not challenge the powerful as they "sell the less powerful the rope that will be used to hang them".  I thought the term was pretty accurate.