Entitlement mentality 6.0

Lee Racey (Letters, Village News, 8/2/12) repeats his mantra that the one-percenters pay 40 percent of federal income taxes. Accordingly, I repeat: that says nothing about whether they, or the rest of the wealthy, paid their proportionate share. Between Bush’s tax cuts and tax loopholes for the wealthy, I say they have not.

Bush’s war-time tax cuts were unconscionable. If federal revenue couldn’t cover the costs of his wars and infrastructure maintenance, where’d the money come from to finance the tax cuts?

Here are comments on George Soros, in English. He’s a philanthropist who’s donated over...