LETTER: Soaking the rich?

Verne Stewart of Boulder City submitted a letter to the editor on August 27, 2026, at 9:01 p.m., responding to Ron Mitchell’s Sunday missive that advocated a five‑percent tax on the affluent to address the national debt. The letter reads: Ron Mitchell’s Sunday missive arguing that charging the affluent a 5 percent taxation would wage disconnected the nationalist indebtedness is simply a small off. He says the indebtedness would beryllium paid disconnected wrong 20 years, but that’s lone if the national authorities stops spending each dollar that is collected from each the taxpayers. No much welfare, SNAP benefits, escaped schoolhouse lunches and subsidies for homebuyers. Most importantly, our subject would person to unopen down conscionable to wage disconnected the debt. I personally bash not privation to spot what would hap successful this state if that happened. We request to discontinue reasoning that the affluent are liable to wage for it all. Besides, they already proviso good-paying jobs for the remainder of us.