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- LETTERS, Page 8Capital-Gains Fallout
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- Your piece on the debate over capital-gains-tax reduction
- (NATION, Oct. 9) did not mention that decades of giveaways by
- the liberals have left our Government in a fiscal mess; their
- solution is to raise taxes. At least Republicans have the sense
- to see that these failed programs are hurting both the poor and
- the middle class. Reducing the capital-gains tax would provide
- an incentive to buy and sell assets. The measure would save the
- wealthy far more money than it would ordinary taxpayers.
- However, many middle-class investors would also profit and
- probably reinvest their gains.Those who risk more should receive
- more than those who risk less.
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- W. Kirk Bell Washington
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- The Government tries to give tax breaks without taking
- measures to diminish the deficit. How are our children going to
- pay? President Bush proposes reducing federal education funding
- by $400 million, and this will assuredly not help our young
- people learn the skills they will need in order to deal with
- this debt. Drugs are the American answer to the disappointed and
- disillusioned; they are an escape from an unacceptable reality.
- Is this the heritage we wish to leave?
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- Beatrice M. Shushan Gualala, Calif.
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