Paul, I thought you made some good points about raising taxes, closing tax loopholes, etc. in last week’s Clermont Sun letter to the editor and you pointed out the dastardly Republicans in Congress who refuse to do something about this problem.

However, you completely missed the solution, and that is President Obama can issue executive order #10,000 to make his own law today, and to do all the things you suggested making them retroactive to January 1, 2016. The total of your proposed suggestions would be about $1 trillion dollars per year and would go a long way to reducing our national debt. In addition, it allows Obama to make laws again and by pass Congress as he has found them not to be needed.

Let’s recap our national debt problem. The debt was $6 trillion for “W” when he went into the office and he in eight years increased it to $8 trillion. (Which Obama said that increase of $2 trillion was “obscene” and not going to happen in his administration). In Obama’s eight years, he increased it from $11 trillion to $19 trillion.

But then we need to review what may happen if either Trump or Hillary are elected President.

If Trump wins, then his first Executive Order will be to cancel all 10,000 of Obama’s Executive Orders so that will negate your proposed $1 trillion to reduce the debt.

If Hillary wins, the proposed $1 trillion in savings will be offset by Hillary’s first executive order which will be to kill the coal industry and put thousands of miners out of work. This is estimated to cost $1 trillion in lost taxes, etc. so there will be no savings from Obama’s executive order. Since Hillary has said let the good times roll and she will keep Obama’s policies, etc. she will add another $11 trillion to increase the debt to $30 trillion when she leaves office in 2025.

Thanks for pointing out this problem about the national debt.

Gene Smith