Tax Game

Tax reform (NATION, Aug. 25) may be a miracle for the rich, the poor and the elderly, but for the middle class, the new tax law can only be held in contempt. How can the Reagan Administration ask the average wage earner to go on paying and paying for Social Security benefits that he may never see, for an astronomical defense budget, for aid to the contras and for yet another NASA shuttle? It is incredible that any tax reform would delete child-care credits, double-earner exemptions and IRA write-offs. What is miraculous is that after using half of my take-home pay for child care, my husband and I have enough to make payments on our home and one car.

Patricia G. Felten

Fair Oaks, Calif.

Tax reform may cost my job, but it is a long-overdue effort at making the tax code equitable for the working people. If the bill must be modified, I hope the Washington politicians will let common sense and simplification prevail.

Wayne J. Moats

Okeechobee, Fla.

For the middle-income taxpayer, what goes into one pocket in tax savings comes out of the other pocket in paying for higher prices that industry will charge on consumer goods to cover the increase in corporate taxes. Our only salvation may be to buy even more foreign-made products.

Frank A. Carnein

Chillicothe, Ohio

Why should people be able to deduct the interest on their second-home mortgage but not the interest on the loan used to purchase their first car? How many members of Congress have two homes?

Mark D. Simms

Lawrence, Kans.

One of these days there will be a true tax revolt, and it is going to come from suburbia.

Kathryn R. Reeves

Fullerton, Calif.