Supply-side economics won’t save country

It really disgusts me when I see our draft dodger in chief speaking at West Point or reviewing troops at his birthday parade. Here’s a guy who used his father’s connections to avoid military service due to “bone spurs” in his heel, but can golf 100+ rounds of golf each year.

I’m all for cutting government spending in a responsible way (unlike DOGE’s methods) and reducing the deficits, but his Big Bloated Bill will do neither. Republicans used to be the party of fiscal responsibility, but the last federal surplus was under Bill Clinton. After 9/11 Bush ran $1 trillion deficits and Obama followed suit. Trump’s first term increased that to nearly $2 trillion, then Biden plus Trump’s second term will have exceeded that mark.

Tax cuts and supply side economics have not worked in the past. Hoping that they will in the future is wishful thinking. If our members of Congress ran their personal finances the way they run the government’s, they’d all be on welfare and eating dog food. I saw a recent interview on PBS with Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who is appalled at the size of the deficit and the lack of concern shown by his cronies. At least this shows that there are a few sane people in government who are willing to take an unpopular stance and buck the president to save the country. Let’s hope he is joined by others with integrity.

Larry Mayerhofer

Geneva