YOUR AD HERE »

Letter: Who’s doing the taking?

Patrick Hunter
Carbondale

Op-ed columns are obviously opinion, but when you copy right out of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” isn’t that plagiarism? I don’t know why your columnist feels that the holiday season, usually a time for good will and giving, is a time to give the working people of Aspen a “beat-ing”.

I did not realize until now that the maids, nurses, firemen, police, bus drivers, maintenance workers, trades people, restaurant staff (the list goes on) come to work each day to “take” from the wealthy.

Actually, recent financial revelations from many that study our economic system find that the wealth redistribution from about 1970 has been all upward. The adjusted median wage is worth less now than then. The minimum wage has not been raised in years and is now worth less than when it was last set. There will be no cost of living increase for Social Security recipients (of their own money). Taxes on the highest earners are far less now than under President Eisenhower (90 percent then). The tax code should be renamed “American loopholes.”



The American “middle class” has shrunk relative to the top and bottom. Middle aged, middle class, “white guys” are taking themselves out at a rate never seen before; drugs, booze and bullets. College students graduate with record debt and can’t find jobs that can pay off the loans.

There is “taking” going on all right — from the bottom up. Happy holidays.


Support Local Journalism

Support Local Journalism

Readers around Glenwood Springs and Garfield County make the Post Independent’s work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism.

Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. Every contribution, however large or small, will make a difference.

Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage.