Another zero.

Editor,

Balancing the budget on the backs of old people living on $12,000 a year is so smart. You need $1 trillion, so you gouge retired people for $135 billion.

Meanwhile, capital gains and dividends, which are where millionaires' and billionaires' incomes come from, are now taxed at a whopping, permanent 20%.

Couldn't the tax on dividends and capital gains be 20.5%? Or 21%?

Anyone with a brain will tell you: If you want money, go to the people who have money.

But noooooo. We have to make granny's life just a little bit more miserable so Fat Eddie can have another zero on his bank account.

Re: "Misguided Social Security ‘Reform’" (1/13/2013)