Opinion

Common sense talk about utopia

Posted May 27, 2019 1:00 am

Just a note of gratitude for including Walter E. Williams' article on your Opinion page Wednesday, May 22. I truly feel his article, "Giveaway politics promise a utopia they cannot deliver" is right.

As he states, socialism promises a utopia that sounds good, but those promises are never realized. His argument for capitalism, or "free markets" is marvelous. By the way, I don't think free markets should necessarily mean markets without tariff protection either.

Nonprofit organizations don't depend on our taxes to operate. Supermarkets and the like don't either. Private businesses either "make it or break it" by their creative ways to get us to give them our money voluntarily. It seems to me when times are monetarily tight at our house, we are forced to prioritize where our money should be spent, after our government takes its portion.

Wouldn't it be great if our governmental entities would do the same through a determined spirit of an honest fiscal policy purposed to balance their own budgets?

Roberta Spengler

Lombard

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