There is a lot of talk about “fairness” these days. What is fair? My wife and I send the government a large chunk of the money we worked hard to earn (the more we earn the more we are taxed) and the federal government is supposed to use it for national defense and infrastructure — for our benefit and protection. 

But now there is something else that is “fair”: If you are very successful, the liberals think it is “fair” to add a special tax on top of that, and use it to “spread the wealth around.” What our president and his Democratic Party leaders are really pushing onto us, is redistribution of wealth — which is not being fair to those who work very hard to achieve their dreams that brings wealth.

The freedom to achieve has populated our country with the most prosperous people from one nation in world history, and the largest percentage of its citizens with wealth derived from employment in our world-leading businesses. Giving our business leaders' the incentive to compete successfully in this world marketplace (plus American “exceptionalism”) will do this — not a bigger and more intrusive federal government.

My wife and I are now in our retirement years, or very close to it, and we want for our children and grandchildren to have the American prosperity that we experienced during our past careers — prosperity earned in a free and fair economic system in which individuals are rewarded for hard work and innovation.

Government exists not to “spread the wealth around,” but to protect our individual rights. Certainly not the “transformation of America” to a failing socialistic economy propagandized by the current administration. 

Donald BolsterSugar Grove