Bush tax plan will spur economy, increase revenue

Bush tax plan will spur economy, increase revenue
EDITOR:
Sen. Voinovich is short changing all of us by failing to fully support President Bush's tax reduction proposal. The tax reduction proposal is more than fiscal politics, it is a matter of federal principles.
The only effective way to restrict the ever-increasing size and power of the government is to reduce the money it takes from the people. The best use of the $726 billion is with the people, not the government. Keep your change in your pocket, not the purse of the government.
Accelerating marginal tax rate reductions will benefit everyone. I strongly believe that the $1,200 annual benefit I now receive as a result of President Bush's first tax reduction (from 15percent to 10 percent) more directly benefits my family and my community than it would if it got lost in the annual $2.2 trillion federal budget. Accelerating tax deductions for capital expenditures will increase business spending and consequently increase employment and factory utilization.
Eliminating the double taxation of corporate dividends will encourage American business to reduce its over reliance on debt financing. Shareholders (including pension plans and charitable endowments) will have more money to allocate, as they (not the government) deem prudent.
Enacting the president's complete tax reduction proposal will increase economic activity and federal revenues. The increase in federal revenues will restore the fiscal soundness that we the people deserve. Everyone needs to urge Sen. Voinovich to reconsider his obstruction of the president's plan to revive our economy.
MICHAEL J. KELLEY
Poland
Top cop shouldn't be trading city service for class time
EDITOR:
At a time when the city of Youngstown is trying to find money to keep the safety forces on the streets of the city, one must ask were the police chief gets off trading city services for free classes at YSU. If this was a city employee (not a department head) caught doing this, they would be charged with a crime and could even be fired for this action. What is worse is the mayor of Youngstown known about this and did noting about it.
The actions of the police chief are unethical at best and criminal at worst. It has be said that this has been done before, but that does not make it right. If the city can afford what the police chief is doing, then why did it need a income tax increase to help the safety forces out?
But then again, one must say this is how things are done in Youngstown.
JAMES D. VAUGHN II
Youngstown
Saddam thought wrong
EDITOR:
There are different cultures in this world. People with their own identities. They live in their own environments. They all have ambitions. Some aspire to become leaders; a greater percentage to be followers. If a person is led by the will of God, he will survive. We speak of the devil's influences, and he surely exits, but we must resist him and all his cohorts.
Saddam Hussein was a leader who met disaster. He believed as Hitler did that he was invincible. President Bush, despite constant opposition, persevered and came out a winner. Brave men and women sacrificed their lives to free the Iraqi people from oppression and grant them peace which they had never experienced.
Will it last? It might or might not. One thing is certain, the rest of the world now knows the United States means business.
PERRY DiPIETRO
Boardman