Tax Cut Veto

President Clinton has vetoed the tax cut (Sept. 24), which was based on a surplus for which he has loudly taken credit. If the budget is running a surplus, then the surplus should be returned to American taxpayers. If we aren’t really running a surplus because we need to rescue Social Security and Medicare, as he now says, then Clinton has lied once again and claimed credit for something he does not deserve.

Obviously Clinton detests tax reductions, no matter how overtaxed his constituents are. It is obvious that he is thoroughly out of touch with average Americans.

Apparently, it is far better to spend the money on military actions to distract attention from his malfeasances than it is return it to taxpayers so they might pay their bills. Only 16 months to go.

MICHAEL T. WALKER

Pasadena

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In vetoing the congressional budget plan, which allows some tax cuts in the face of massive surpluses (and yet at the same time increases spending), the president attacked the bill as being “too big, too bloated [and] places too great a burden on America’s economy.”

So now a government that taxes too little burdens our economy. A budget that allows us citizens to keep some increment of our own money is ‘bloated” (and we taxpayers “selfish”).

MICHAEL MacINTIRE

Glendale