Letters to the Editor
By Daily Bruin Staff
May 28, 2003 9:00 p.m.
Editorial Board wrong about tax cuts
Just when I thought that everyone at UCLA could perform basic
math problems, I picked up the Daily Bruin and read the editorial,
“Tax cut would benefit rich before poor” (May 28). To
my amazement, it seems as if the Editorial Board spouts nonsense
liberal rhetoric without actually looking at its own facts.
A family with two children under the age of 17 and a $63,000
income will receive a tax break of $1,100. Due to University of
California fee increases, sending a student to UCLA will cost
$1,200 more. Simple math shows that with the tax break, the family
will only have to bear $100 of the fee increase. Had the tax cut
not been delivered, then all $1,200 would have to be shelled out.
But according to the Editorial Board, this family is out of luck.
Yeah, right.
In general, the Editorial Board may be correct that the rich
would see the tax cut before the poor, but that’s because the
poor hardly pay income taxes.Tom Hartmann Third-year,
political science
