Letter to the editor, the Boston Globe, April 19, 2001:

In Saturday's edition of the Globe you published a piece describing the tax returns of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney ("Bush made $894,880, Cheney $36m in 2000," Page A3, April 14). What you left out were the potential tax cuts each would get if the Bush tax cut proposal were approved. Bush would get $38,979, and Cheney would get $2.3 million. Since I assume that both of these men and their families already have everything they could possibly want or need, I ask: What would they do with the money? How would their tax cuts help the economy? Perhaps you should ask them.

—Stan Orel
Canton

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