Republicans gobble up tax cuts but ignore Donald Trump incompetence

Letter echo published in the Santa Rosa California Press Democrat newspaper

Donald Trump is destroying the Republican reputation for fiscal responsibility and free trade

Tax cuts and deficits- only making the rich, much richer.

EDITOR:  "The only reason the US deficits are unsustainable and again out of control is because of the Republicans’ love affair with rewarding the rich with tax cuts. And this has been the case every single time they do it."  Susan Roberts, from Rohnert Park, California

Trump’s ‘invisible fist’ will not make anybody great again!

EDITOR: Led by Donald Trump, the Republicans have repeatedly and wrongly attacked Democrats as democratic socialists. 

But this past week, Trump leaped ahead calling for full-blown Soviet-style state socialism! A few days ago, he tweeted: “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for alternatives to China …” Such core Republican axioms as free enterprise and free markets have been abandoned by Supreme Commander Trump.

Always claiming that he alone can make American great again, Trump has just replaced Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” of competitive market forces with his “invisible fist.”

Where are the Republicans who should be loudly decrying Trump’s embrace of state socialism as he orders American companies to immediately follow his commands? Perhaps those Democrats advocating for more democratic socialism, but not Trump-style command (tyrannical) socialism, aren’t so scary after all.

From John Donnelly, Sonoma California