Higher taxes should remain on the table Re: “Gray should take tax increase of the table,” Local Editorial, Jan. 4 The Examiner clearly backs the Republican point of view that tax increases are never appropriate. That is very short-sighted. Nothing should be off the table as Mayor Gray and the District Council rightsize D.C.’s budget. We are saddled with huge federal deficits because a Republican president refused to ask the country for a tax increase to fight two wars that have now cost us more than a trillion dollars. He put the cost of those wars on our children while not asking for any sacrifice from anyone other than the brave men and women fighting these wars and their families.
In the District of Columbia, like other states, we will suffer economically from a host of federal cutbacks — including the freezing of federal wages. I, for one, am willing to pay a slight increase in my local taxes if they are a part of a comprehensive package to cut spending.
