Playing the “liberal game”
Re: “Trump helps the rich get richer,” Aug. 2 Washington Post editorial
Why is The Denver Post engaging in “class warfare” by trying to pit supposed “lower classes” against the “rich class” that must be “evil” by insinuation?
Who are these “rich” who might benefit from “getting richer?” Don’t they include millionaires and multi-millionaires that might include the Obamas; the Clintons; the Kennedys; virtually every player on the Broncos, Rockies, Nuggets, and Avalanche; the rich at CNN; almost every liberal talk show host; and — horrors of all horrors — the actual owners of The Denver Post and even Oprah who might be looking at “reducing taxes” as a “good thing” as it might allow them to spend and invest even more money on things and in places where the “non-rich” actually work?
The liberal game of trying to demonize both Trump and the rich obscures the fact that many liberals are filthy rich themselves. All one has to do is look at virtually every liberal congressperson and Hollywood-type and the wealth they have.
Many gladly play the liberal game of demonizing the rich simply because it sells more papers and gets more viewers which makes them even more popular and even more rich.
Robert E Forman, Lakewood
End the nightmare
Nightly, my child has me read him the book, “We’re Going to be Alright,” by Maria Uribe. This book is about a happy little girl, Maira, who is raised by her mother and grandmother until both are deported one day and Maira comes to school sad.
My son and I then discuss how this happens in our community. Parents of kids at his school are taken and deported and his friends are left without their whole family. Family separation is bad for kids, itap bad for parents, itap bad for our community. The recent child/parent separation we’ve seen has been horrific, but the truth is itap been happening for a long time and it needs to end.
Naomi Nishi, Denver
The real robbery in trade
Re: “Trumponomics is working,” Aug. 1 letter to the editor
Open forum letter writer Ed Lippert writes, “The U.S. has been robbed in trade since the end of World War II.”
Robbed? Really?
I buy thousands of dollars of groceries every year, but my grocer buys nothing from me. Year after year I run a trade deficit with my grocer. Am I being robbed by my grocer? Would I be better off if a tax called a tariff was added to my grocery bill to correct my trade imbalance with my grocer?
Foreign businesses selling goods and services that Americans want at competitive prices is not robbery. Increasing import tariffs, which are taxes American consumers are forced to pay, is actually politically approved legal robbery and, like all tax increases, harms the economy.
Chuck Wright, Westminster
