I am angry and frustrated with President Trump’s and the Republican Congressional management of our country. Two of my concerns are the following:

I vehemently opposed the Medicaid Bill in Congress, supported by President Trump, and being pushed through Congress by House Republicans. There are about 75 million Americans on Medicaid — 21% of our population.

If these cuts are enacted, it's projected that millions of working citizens will lose their Medicaid, with the probability of resulting deaths, and untold increases in medical illnesses. These draconian budgetary cuts are another example of unnecessary, senseless, heartless, unethical and unchristian policy making by Republicans.

The proposed Republican taxation plans in Congress currently as written are inhumane, immoral, draconian and senseless.

Congressional Republicans have again aligned themselves with the most wealthy. For example, if the proposed House of Representatives tax bill is signed into law by the President, it will provide massive tax breaks for the wealthy.

It authorizes $4.5 trillion of tax reductions over a 10-year period, with about 50% of the $4.5 trillion going to the most wealthy 10%, and we the other 90 percent will receive the other half.

Top 10% wage earners run from a low of $167,000 for a person filing individually, and married at $360,000 to the top wage earners like Musk, who is worth a reported $343 billion.

These tax cuts are in addition to the roughly $2 trillion in other tax cuts that Republicans are proposing over the 10-year period.

How humane, compassionate, sensible, and moral it would be if the Republican Congress and President Trump allocate half of 4.5 tax reductions to us, the 90%, rather than the 10% of the most wealthy wage earners, and apportion the other half of the $4.5 trillion to Medicaid primarily and the remainder to Social Security and Medicare. The  $2 million in other budget cuts fund these three and other discretionary programs over the next 10 years.

Democrats in Congress have been proposing this kind of funding policy for years but Republicans have always blocked their efforts.

Rich Stuart lives in Thomaston