War On Drugs
July / August, 2012
Jonathan Tasini says the Bush tax cuts "gave away" $700 billion to the wealthiest one percent ("A Fake Crisis," April). If that's true, the money must have belonged to thegovernment and not to the people who earned it. But that isn't the case. Tasini's suggestion that we "get the monetary printing presses going" is equally suspect. Consider how that strategy worked for the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s. Joseph Kutch Pineville, LouisianaDuring the 1930s the econ...
