Don't Expect Politicians To Protect PoorTo the editors:
The Crimson states in "A Troubled Tax Cut" (Editorial, Feb. 13) that George W. Bush's tax plan would "send most benfits to wealthiest Americans" while failing to focus on lower and middle-income families. While this certainly is true, should it come as any surpise in a system, as decribed by Madison, whose "purpose is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority"?
If anything, executive behavior such as this corresponds with a well-established tradition in American politics: take care of the one-quarter of one percent that provides half of your politcal subsidy. Thus, exhortations like yours, while laudable in nature, are sure to meet with contempt in our system.
Rather unfortunate, but expected behavior in a political mileu governed by the rich.
Geoffrey S. Batt
West Chester, Pa.
Feb. 13, 2001
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