Everything done must affect everyone equally.

I lived through the Great Depression that lasted 14 years and it would not have stopped then if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor.

Why 14 years? The solution (the Works Progress Administration) affected only a very small portion of the nation, i.e., the roads, bridges and similar workers.

What are we doing now? Fixing roads and bridges, installing wind mills, trying to cut carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and bailing out a few companies the administration thinks are too big to fail.

How many jobs are being ignored? Is it hundreds, thousands or millions? That is what is not fair. How can we affect all of the people?

The only thing all those people have in common is taxes. Even the poor pay taxes, whether the taxes are income taxes, property taxes, gas taxes or taxes on purchases, to mention a few.

There are only two things that can happen to taxes: they can go up, or down. Clearly, that is a no-brainer. Every tax should be cut by a certain percentage. Within one or two years, the nation’s economy will be humming.

Modest sacrifices will be faced by those who are employed, and on governments, state and federal; with a benefit for all who need to purchase the necessities of life.

Everyone will know they are working together to save the nation. Everyone worked together, even Rosey the Riveter, when the country went to war in 1941.

I pray that war will not be the current alternative.

Arthur Robert Calawa, North Turner