JEFF JACOBY’S appeal for Citizens for Limited Taxation (“. . . so who will save us now?’’ Op-ed, Oct. 25) rings hollow in the wake of George W. Bush’s spendthrift ways, where the solution to curbing the national debt was to raise the threshold at which we’d have to start paying off the national debt.
Every increase in the terror alert level resulted in police and emergency services working overtime, and overtime needs to be paid. We also have all those veterans’ assistance programs that must be funded.
It is simple math, not ideology: One must have money in order to spend money. The supply-side, or “voodoo,’’ economic policy the Republicans champion is a proven failure. As we’ve seen in California, whose 8.25 percent sales tax is the nation’s highest, services can only be cut so far before new sources of revenue have to be found.
Jeff Cross
Marblehead 
