Dear Mr. Trump,

So it turns out, I now see, that you would save tens of millions of dollars every year by your new tax bill. But the taxes of many people a lot poorer than you will go up. How is that fair?

I think we should be able to work this out, sir. Please send all the tax savings from your plan – if it’s enacted – to the middle-class Americans whose taxes are going to increase. Then get your ultra-rich buddies to do the same. Tell your good, close friend Putin to chip in a few bucks, too. Tell him it’s just the cost of collusion.

All levity aside, what you’re doing was referred to by none other than George H.W. Bush as “voodoo economics.” There’s no possible way that your tax cut won’t monstrously increase the deficit and our national debt. At best, you are placing increasing trillions of dollar of debt on our children and grandchildren. I know you don’t care, sir, if the country completely falls apart when you’re gone, but I do care.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger