Tax the rich  August 17, 2011  Warren Buffett has repeatedly
called for higher tax rates for the rich, recently reasserting
this view in an opinion piece he wrote for The New York Times.
Tax cuts for the wealthy have been repeatedly justified as a
means of creating jobs, but the evidence needed to support this
assertion is lacking. These policies have been implemented under
various administrations, and they have always contributed to
significant deficits. The long-term consequences of these
repeated deficits have been illustrated by the recent national
debt dilemma and S&P's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.
Future generations will have to pay for our nation's $14.3
trillion debt and more money will go towards paying interest on
this debt as a result of the credit downgrade. Hopefully
congress will listen to Buffett and the other proponents of
repealing these tax cuts before America's citizens are saddled
with an even greater burden.  -- Charles L. Bovaird, Worcester,
Mass.