This letter gives my No. 1 reason for why I am disgusted with the national Democrats. If you are going to tell the people that you are going to fight for new social programs to help them, then you should have the guts and spine, backbone and courage, bravery and good character to come up with the money to pay for them.
Not to do so is to be “playing” with them and “teasing” them.
This might surprise you, but in 1999 Donald Trump proposed the passage of a “national wealth tax” of 14.25% on all individuals who have a net-worth and net-wealth of $10 million and higher. You can look it up online. Wealth differs from income.
He wanted the money generated from it to pay off the entire national debt with the remainder being placed into the Social Security Trust Fund to make it more solvent for additional years.
That is not something that conservative Republicans believe in.
USA Today newspaper loves the idea.
So do I.
So should all “liberal/progressive” Democrats as well as many “moderates” and “centrists” and “independents.”
Right?
Take from the rich and give to help everyone else.
It is like “Robin Hood.”
It is part of my own political platform and agenda.
So why is Elizabeth Warren the only national Democrat who supports any version of it?
It is the only way to pay for the new social programs that people like AOC [U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] want.
The only way to raise enough money to help people.
Why is a political nobody like me the only person pointing this out?
Why are the “compassionate” and “caring” liberal/progressive Democrats totally silent and mute?
Stewart B. Epstein, a former resident of Franklin County, lives in Rochester N.Y.