Letters to the Editory July 7

Recently, a number of letters have pushed for higher taxation of corporations. I feel this is a major scam being pulled on the citizens of this country by the politicians, bureaucrats, union leaders, etc., in hopes of solving the country's financial problems rather than facing reality and cutting costs.

Businesses, big or small, multinational corporations or individually owned, do not pay taxes - they collect them.

I don't feel it should be difficult to understand that the money used by businesses to pay taxes is generated from the money spent by their customers for their goods or services.

If their taxes are increased, they increase the price of their goods accordingly. This is the same as if they had an increase in their material or labor costs.

In the end, it is the U.S. citizen who pays the most part of business taxes, and increasing them results in an inflationary action.

I wish our education system would deal less with the athletics and art aspects of education and more with the civic and economic aspects so that we would have a more informed citizenry.

Sanford Deyo

Minden

I am very glad that a decision has been reached. For all of us who are on retirement, like military, disability, Social Security, state pensions, we were very concerned about the outcome.

It seemed that no one in Congress cared that we might be without any income. As for me, it was too close for comfort. It should never have gone this far. The scare tactics apparently worked.

I, for one, will not vote for any of the incumbents on the next election. Thank you.

Sue Holmes

Dayton

Per the Guy Farmer column of July 24, compromise is not a bad word. The problem is arithmetic. Even with politics completely sidelined, in order to compromise, the parties have to be within a logical, reasonable range of simple arithmetic to compromise.

You give your daughter a $1 million credit card, she goes shopping at Victoria's Secret, calls and says, "Dad, my friends came shopping with me, I need $ 25 million. OK, dear, now we have to compromise.

Does this clarify the point? And then we go on to attack disillusioned voters. Really? I wonder why they got that way? The problems that the grassroots public face are with the politicians who represent them, the media who distort the facts and the inability to compromise with basic arithmetic.

The so-called disillusioned voters are the investors of the United States of America. When a company overspends itself into bankruptcy, the investors replace the chief executive officer, board members and management. This is the compromise that will become apparent in 2012.

Anyone of any party who does not understand that our country is extremely over-extended simply does not understand fourth grade arithmetic.

Calvin Coolidge said, "The world is full of educated derelicts."

Gary Duarte

Sparks

My family recently lost one of our family members, our 7-year-old cat, Gus. His death was unexpected and his life ended much too soon. Those of you who have pets know how devastating and difficult the loss of a beloved pet can be.

We so appreciate the efforts made by the staff of the Lone Mountain Veterinary Clinic. Gus received expert medical care coupled with sincere compassion and a true sense of caring.

We will forever miss our kitty, and will never forget how the Lone Mountain Veterinary Clinic went above and beyond to help us through this difficult time.

Monique Giron

Carson City