Tax stock sales and TV and radio ads

Grover Norquist reminds me of a spoiled child who threatens to take his marbles and go home when he doesn’t get his way. He has bamboozled the Republican Party into opposing all tax increases. How can the American people accept this kind of reactionary policy?

A much more sensible way to deal with the deficit is to: let the Bush tax cuts expire; tax all financial transactions on the stock exchanges at a rate of one-quarter of one percent; and; tax all advertising on radio and TV at one quarter of one percent. This would eliminate the budget deficit and create a substantial surplus. We could then rehire all the teachers, firemen and policemen who have been laid off due to the penny-pinching policies of the Republicans since 2001. Also, it would enable us to begin to pay for the repair of our crumbling infrastructure.

Rudy Hazucha

Sleepy Hollow