To the Editor:
Just a reminder to all the hard working people in Maine to be aware that if you make over $250,000, your tax breaks are going to expire. Of course that is for a couple. It’s $200,000 for a single person.
Now of course I am joking. Let’s be realistic for a moment. The number of Mainers not being millionaires accounts for about 99.9 percent of the population and, of those, about 80 percent won’t have to worry about their tax exemptions being revoked. No, most Mainers have all they can do to put food on the table and keep their homes.
Doesn’t that tell us that this president has lost contact with the people? I used Maine as an example but sadly it applies to most of the country.
We have been engaged in wars since 1941 and having served in two of them. I hate them. Sure WWII bought (not brought) us out of a depression, but from the looks of our latest wars, its not helping our economy. No, it’s just helping the industrial military banking complex.
Anyone doubting this, please read retired Marine General Smedly Butler’s book titled “War Is A Racket.” It is, but not for our fighting men and women, I say.
Frank “Smilin’ Jack” Slason, Somerville
