Letter: Our grandchildren are paying for our navy spending

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Because the nation has struggled with the worst inflation we’ve had in many years, the U.S. Home of Representatives and Senate are falling throughout one another approving extra spending with none cash to fund proxy wars in Israel and Ukraine. This spending is claimed to be important to sustaining our nationwide safety. Whether it is, shouldn’t we elevate taxes?

This spending with no cash has turn into normal process with the Maine delegation seeming to be firmly embedded with these hooked on utilizing our grandchildren’s bank card for every little thing. I’ve hoped for a while now that Sen. Angus King, Sen. Susan Collins, and Rep. Jared Golden would come to grasp what this spending will do to our grandchildren’s futures. Golden did forged a brave vote to place a examine on spending some time again however apparently realized the error of his methods and fell into line with the large spenders.

We simply concluded 20 years of warfare within the Center East with the entire price handed onto the following era. We at the moment are turning our consideration to China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea with out elected leaders calling for elevated taxes to cowl this obscene spending, or when you choose “the price of freedom.”