Justice should trickle up, not trickle downward

True justice would be to trickle up, not trickle down the people’s tax money as the Reagan era advised.

There is no way that giving the rich more money helps the poor. To give billions of dollars to companies that put it in off-shore tax havens and pay little or no taxes themselves is robbery. Why pay them to provide jobs to foreign countries while they gut America and American jobs? If they operate and manufacture outside this country they are obviously not an American company and they all should be taxed accordingly.

If the government truly wanted to fix the economy with a stimulus package, it would not give our tax money to the large monopolies that created the problems but rather to the middle class and the poor. The people can’t afford to buy products, or choose not to buy a particular company’s product, for a reason. It is wrong to force us to support any unwanted or overpriced product with our tax money.

To correct this, provide the stimulus to the poorest one third of the population where it is needed for survival. When the people spend their stimulus they will pick and choose where their money goes with their wallets and those companies will prosper.

Let the market decide where our tax money goes, not the rich executives that are milking the people dry without our support or input — and paying themselves millions of dollars. After all they created the current financial problems in the first place.

Why is it that not even one senator or congressman proposed this? Are they all bought and paid for by those companies and lobbyists?

BILL YOTTER

Bonners Ferry