Right and wrong.

Editor,

I'm getting tired of pundits' call to give up a little of what is right to prevent a little of what is wrong.

Dismantling Social Security and Medicare is wrong. Raising taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Americans, whose tax rate is unconscionably low, is right.

Negotiating affordable prices for prescription drugs and other health care delivery systems to reduce rapidly increasing medicare costs is right. Reducing tax rates on corporations, which don't even pay the taxes they owe now, is wrong.

This logic of each side giving something up to "compromise" is specious and disingenuous. You don't take a punch in the nose instead of a two-by-four over the head in exchange for a madman's stopping beating you up. You pin his arms and lock him up in jail.

Re: "Amid Din, Serious Talk on Debt" (4/17/2011)