No tax cuts; stop raids on S.S. funds

No

tax cuts; stop raids on S.S. funds

In Congressman Mac

Collins' article, he mentions that Speaker of the House

Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), will not spend a dime of Social

Security.

If I am expected to believe

that the refund of the budget surplus is not raiding

Social Security funds, then will someone in Washington

please tell me when Social Security funds or taxes

stopped going into the General Fund to help balance the

budget!

I am not happy with the

amount of taxes I pay, but giving the surplus back to

citizens in a form of a tax cut, after robbing the money

from the Social Security Trust to balance the budget, is

spending Social Security monies.

Secondly, if a tax cut is

given in any form or any way, what is going to be cut or

eliminated to balance the budget? Maybe this is why some

of the Congress and Senate are against a tax cut. They

may not be big spenders or favor the mislabeled "big

government," they just know if you take away income,

you must cut spending for a continued balanced budget.

Not one single Republican,

Democrat, conservative or liberal, has said what will be

cut or eliminated from the budget to balance the proposed

tax cuts. I suspect we won't hear that until after

November.

Andrew T. Linko

Fayetteville

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