A Buffalo Grove letter to the editor: Oh my gosh. What a surprise. The famous great tax cut for big business and the great tax cut benefits for the public promised so vehemently for less and lower taxes is not exactly true.
Oh my gosh. What a surprise. The famous great tax cut for big business and the great tax cut benefits for the public promised so vehemently for less and lower taxes is not exactly true, as was promised. Now, the people cannot deduct the payment of real estate taxes, or of donations to charitable agencies; and the percentage of return of withholding taxes has diminished or disappeared. But, coming from Trump and his topsy-turvy cabinet ("the greatest people in the country") and his know-nothing, do-nothing White House crew of toadies, these "achievements" are not surprising.
Equally not surprising is the condition of our standing with our European allies (or now, former allies). We are considered a laughingstock, a joke, a pitiful example of what our alliances were and what they were able to accomplish around the world as they worked together.
It may be there were more disgraceful or inadequate administrations working in Washington to serve the nation, but if so, they are very hard to call to mind, and we are unable to compare what they were to what it is now. My hope is that, somehow. the parties will find a way to effect a solution to solve this disastrous calamity of political mismanagement and utter failure.
Frank Sears
Buffalo Grove