Letter: The GOP is stealing from hard-working Americans
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks as President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., right, listen during a bill passage event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, to acknowledge the final passage of tax cut legislation by Congress. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The GOP recently gifted the top 1 percent a $1.5 trillion tax cut with a silver bow on a silver platter. This is Robin Hood in reverse: stealing from the middle class and poor to give to the rich.
How?
Because we citizens pay into our Social Security and Medicare during our working years (skimmed right off the top of our paychecks). That is our money that is supposed to be waiting for us when we retire. Yet now our hard-earned benefits will be reduced by Sen. Mitch McConnell and his party of bandits because the government gave themselves and other rich people a tax cut to the tune of $1.5 trillion and they now must dip into our Medicare and Social Security accounts to pay for their greed.
This is nothing less than stealing from hard-working Americans.
Cherise Udell, Millcreek
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