Letter to the Editor: Funny math from the Republican party

Dear Editor:
My dear friends in the Republican party, here is a new head scratcher that I am calling funny math.  You talk of fiscal responsibility but do not walk the walk. It took our country 210 years to go into debt of 8 trillion dollars, but only took your party four years to add 8 trillion dollars, which automatically added 2 trillion dollars to our debt because the rich got the largest tax breaks. Hmmm ... fiscal responsibility.  
The other example is 14 billion dollars to Israel, none to Ukraine, none to the border patrol, none to the Indo-Pacific area, but here is the catch: They want to defund the IRS 14 billion dollars so that tax cheats can keep on cheating. You know, the rich and ultra-rich, not just people but corporations. By losing staff, we lose revenue. We have all heard how corporations end up paying zero so let’s make it easier for them.  So, losing the staff to catch cheats will add to the deficit 12 billion dollars.  
Is this that funny math where actual basic math doesn’t matter?  
So, we have a new speaker who is against the LGBTQ community, believes in a national abortion ban, no exceptions, wants to cut Social Security, SNAP benefits for families, the elderly, single parents and the disabled, Medicare and Medicaid and evidently in funny math, the numbers don’t lie.  I am pretty sure that the trickle-down theory has been disproven.  
Here is the perfect example.  The recent auto strike and the big three.  During the great recession — by the way, my second recession, both started under Republican presidents — the auto workers took huge cuts to keep these plants open.  
Well guess what? When record profit after record profit happened, nothing went to the worker.  No trickle down here. It took a strike for them to remember the people who bailed them out.  That is the trickle-down economics they want us to believe. Personally, I like the bottom up and middle out.  
Do I like the inflation? Of course not. But I blame greedy corporations more than anything.  Remember, the Republicans voted no on a bill to stop price gouging, back when we had a formula shortage.  
Ladies and the men who love us, remember right now there are 19 Republican state AGs that are petitioning to be able to go into our medical records without permission. Government overreach.  
Respectfully,
Lynn Meier
Basin