Raising taxes automatically isn't good idea

To the editor:

In response to the article "Proposal would raise taxes when state revenue falls": Surely no more ill-conceived economic proposal might ever be advanced to the electorate, because tax revenue falls only when the economy weakens, invariably attended by increasing unemployment and falling earned incomes -- precisely the most injudicious moment to place even a single straw upon the stumbling camel's back.

Indeed, even economic dilettantes unhesitatingly acknowledge the efficacy of the antithesis, which provides unpolitical (automatic) alleviation of regional economic weaknesses with coincident reductions of regional tax collections, a particular genius of our federal economic union. How sad, though too oft true, against ignorance even the gods doth toil in vain.

T. ROBIN COLE

Cape Girardeau