The Issue: How tax hikes that could go into effect on Jan. 1 will affect Americans, and the nation’s economy.
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I would like to thank The Post for its editorial on the new taxes coming in 2013, and President Obama’s desire to tax the wealthy (“What Tax Hikes Mean,” Nov. 26).
Any new taxes will be against everybody, not just the wealthy.
All of those states whose electoral votes went to Obama should have the taxes on their residents increased, while all of the states that voted for Mitt Romney should have taxes on their residents decreased. The people who voted for Obama should be able to afford the programs they want, and they should be required to pay for them as well.
James Kenworthy
Pelham
It’s time the president and Congress stop trying to fool the public into thinking that we need to tax the rich to reduce our debt.
Government officials spent too much of our money, but they feel they have the right to raise revenue by taxing people. Many are already trying to live within their means and can’t.
We need to cut out and reduce all spending programs, and that includes everything: defense, Social Security and other “entitlements” and federal-government salaries — including those of Congress members and the president.
I’m not rich and I have no job, but I am living within my means. It’s time the government start saving and stop spending. Taxing is not the answer.R. Ferrar
Richmond Hill
The politicians in this country seem to fear the fiscal cliff. I think we should go over the cliff and start rebuilding our economy from there.
Everyone would learn a lesson: not to take government handouts for granted, and that for every tax increase, there should be an equal reduction in spending so that we may more quickly return to a non-debtor status.
Alan Winters
Bellaire, Texas
New York, California and the whole country have already fallen off the fiscal cliff. We just gave a tax-and-spend liberal four more years to turn us into a bankrupt, bail-out state.
Patrick Phelan
Sayville
There is a way that Republicans in Congress could give the electorate exactly what it wants, since the GOP gets blamed no matter what.
Republicans should let the Democrats submit their plan and then vote “present,” thereby giving total ownership to the Democrats for the fiscal cliff that we are certainly going over if we don’t reduce spending.
The president did it 129 times while in the Illinois Senate, so why shouldn’t the GOP do it in Congress?Roy Davis
Preston Hollow