LTE: Are we better off?

In a Friday 'Letter to the Editor' (LTE) in the SI Advance, the writer poses the question President Reagan once asked, are you (we) better off now than you were seven years ago.

Look, if you're cutting taxes for the benefit of your real constituents, the top 5 percent of the country's wealthy, something has to give -- like the Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Emergency Management Agency, air and port security, air and water quality, health care and Social Security.

Read the whole piece here.