President Donald Trump wants $200 billion extra in the military budget to pay for his war in Iran. This is a war he claims he won a few weeks ago. The tragic aspect of this is that he wants it funded by cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, child care, the Affordable Care Act and other programs that help the poor.
Meanwhile, the poor just had a major tax increase via the tariffs. The typical working-class family will lose about 6.8 percent of its income to this national sales tax while millionaires and billionaires will pay way under 1 percent of their income to tariffs.
Here’s a radical idea: Why not rescind the tax cuts passed under Mr. Trump and George W. Bush to pay for this unnecessary war and keep the social programs that the poor so desperately need?
If the restoring of the previous tax rates causes hardship for America’s millionaires and billionaires, perhaps they can apply for food stamps to keep from going hungry.
