For shame! Our nation has reached one of the most ugly, most uncaring times in its history by failing to meet the needs of impoverished and ill citizens. In your June 2 editorial "Breaking point," we learned of proposals to further cut North Carolina's mental health funds, endangering patients' well-being and lives.
You were correct. We cannot ask a starving person to go on a diet. But why the silence regarding an obvious solution? There are those of us far from starvation who could provide an immediate emergency increase in income taxes. It could even be called a war tax (because the two wars we are waging will cost several trillions). Why not appeal to the better part in each of us, to do what is only fair, to adequately fund all human services, to lend an assist to our fellows in need?
We all stand to gain. A caring society benefits everyone when its citizenry is not hungry or ill or the frequent target of violence, not to mention the lessened financial cost of hospitals and prisons.
