Congress must prioritize it spending and programs

Dear Editor:

It is time for some more straight talk on our national leadership crisis and the 16 trillion dollar debt. We have to vote the big spending politicians out of office in November of this year. Starting in January our new Congress needs to establish a list of budget items for the next year’s budget. The important items must go to the top of the list and the want items go to the bottom of the list. What is important and not important needs to be decided by all senators and members of Congress.

Then congress must establish an affordable tax rate for taxpayers. Congress will then vote to fund the most important tax items and will not fund the want items on the list.

This budget plan has been used by the state of Virginia where last year’s budget was 4 billion dollars in the red and this year’s budget is 400 million dollars in the black. What Richmond politicians did can be done by the Washington, D.C. politicians. Let’s not follow the example set by Greece in 2010.

Ernest A. Howell, Massapequa