I almost choked when I read George Will’s June 30 column, “Debate displays representative government.” He states President Biden and Donald Trump are two peas in a pod. I am afraid Will is showing his age by his muddled thinking.
Biden is empathetic, caring and kind toward his follow man. In my opinion, Trump is a pathological liar, a narcissist, a fraud and a thief.
Biden decreased the yearly deficit, Trump increased the deficit. Trump caused unnecessary death and suffering by his mismanagement of covid. Biden’s swift actions brought the country out of the public health emergency. Biden was successful in passing legislation helping the middle class. Trump increased our inequality with his tax cuts for the rich, which also ballooned the deficit.
Trump hollowed out federal agencies that help the American people. Biden is still in the process of correcting Trump’s damage. A few examples: the restaffing of the IRS, to ensure that large corporate, large partnership and high-income individual filers pay the taxes they owe. There is an estimated $160 billion gap between what the top 1% of earners likely owe in taxes and what they pay; the National Labor Relations Board is now restoring and supporting workers’ rights; and the Interior Department is now protecting our land and resources and not decimating them.
Rather than two peas in a pod, it is like Trump and Biden are from different planets.
Diana Gray
North Huntingdon