Rich v. poor not good for U.S.

The "Lower taxes on the rich to help the rest of us" letter seems to me to be ill-thought out. I don't believe everyone yearns to be rich, but they want to have sufficient means, to have a job, home, good food for their family, enough funds to educate their children, affordable health care and funds left to retire on.

Some people, foolishly, I believe, think that they can gain this by gambling or taking risky investment strategies.

The writer talks about the rich helping the rest of us by building giant mansions, buying luxury cars and giant yachts. He thinks they shouldn't pay taxes on capital gains and dividends.

There is a verse in the Bible that says something like "to whom much is given, much is required." Maybe he is an atheist who only believes in himself.

Will our wonderful country continue to sink into this kind of an attitude and deluded ideas of what will help our economy when we are so far into debt that we will burden future generations? Will we persist in burying our heads in the sand about the continuing rise in the divergence of the rich and poor classes and the expanding income of the richest where the income of the rest have declined in buying power?

Is this what we want for our United States? I hope not.

Sheila T. Burris

Elgin