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Dean dreams

Your editorial "Dean's dream-destroying plan" (Oct. 23) is shortsighted. The "tax relief" I enjoyed this year actually was a loan straight out of the national debt (although it has served its purpose in making the public feel good about the overall shift of the tax burden from the wealthy onto working people). Personally, I avoid unnecessary loans, but in this case, I was given no choice. My family and I will have to pay it off eventually, with interest. This is the bottom-line fact of tax relief in the middle of a recession and a war.

The editorial raises the specter of "[t]ax-and-spend liberalism," but I am only so old as to remember as far back as Ronald Reagan, and in my entire lifetime, only the Republicans have been truly adept at running up trillion-dollar deficits. Republicans may like to spend my tax dollars on a different set of priorities, but they can spend with the best of them.

Next year, I'll be voting for the candidate who actually balanced a budget (in the only state where the budget does not have to be balanced), and that's Howard Dean.

ALX DARK

Seattle

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