If we squeeze one end of a water balloon, the other end gets bigger. So when the federal government squeezes FEMA and Medicaid, for example, who takes responsibility for paying for repairs to infrastructure after natural disasters and for health care for families who may already be working but can’t afford health insurance? We may be looking forward to a cut in our federal taxes, but state taxes will have to be increased.

Before that happens, we may lose working waterfronts. We will probably lose more rural hospitals. Without Medicaid payments, the uninsured will continue to receive services from these hospitals until they necessarily go bankrupt.

The Big Beautiful Bill is such a euphemistic way to increase our national debt while marching us closer and closer to Third World status!

Ann Melious
Naples