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Re "Under Pressure, House Approves Senate Tax Deal" (front page, Jan. 2):
While it was later than anyone would have liked, it is great to see cooperation over conflict and a deal finally made to avoid the fiscal cliff. I hope that such cooperation could serve as a model for the numerous problems that we have.
I don't have much confidence, but the fiscal deal shows that such cooperation is indeed possible. We send people to Washington to lead, not for conflict.
STEVEN M. CLAYTON
Ocean, N.J., Jan. 2, 2013
To the Editor:
You know that our political system is in dire straits when success by Congress means that our elected officials (1) missed their own deadline by a day, (2) approved tax cuts that will mean a $4 trillion increase to the deficit over the next decade in what was supposed to be a deal to reduce the deficit, and (3) set up another huge political showdown in two months over the spending cuts and the debt ceiling.
PETER FRIED
Brighton, Mass., Jan. 2, 2013
To the Editor:
Never were so many so deeply displeased by the passage of so little.
Both conservatives and liberals were angered and disappointed by various aspects of the bill. Conservatives objected to a tax increase for the wealthy and the lack of spending cuts. Liberals objected to tax increases for only the very wealthy (individuals earning over $400,000) instead of for those earning over $250,000, and the bill's meager impact, raising only $620 billion in tax revenues over 10 years.
KENNETH L. ZIMMERMAN
Huntington Beach, Calif., Jan. 2, 2013
To the Editor:
However much we raise taxes and/or try to cut spending, we will constantly be thwarted if Washington does nothing about government waste. I would have no objection to paying taxes (within reason) if only I did not know that so much goes right down the drain!
ANN C. LYNN
Scottsdale, Ariz., Jan. 2, 2013
To the Editor:
When Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff, he scrambles madly in midair for a few seconds, then looks down and realizes that nothing is under his feet. At that point he falls to the canyon floor far below.
We didn't just run off our fiscal cliff temporarily Monday night. We ran off it a long time ago and have been running madly in place in thin air for some time now. This latest budget deal, like all the others, fails to confront the long-term budget problems, like trillions in unfunded liabilities.
Sooner or later we're going to look down and see that there's nothing under our feet except future generations, who are lying on the canyon floor far below with our mountainous debt descending on them.
Too bad it's not all a cartoon. Or is it?
MARK R. GODBURN
North Canaan, Conn., Jan. 2, 2013
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