Trump tax cuts should not be made permanent

Dear Editor:
I read with interest about “The Biden Spending Spree” as per the Norfolk Daily News.  Interesting as to how the article was constructed, talking about the deficit and the debt together with comparing monthly deficits from one year to the next and so on, to probably create confusion.
Here are some facts from mined from Statista, a German global data and business intelligence platform. The government deficit EOY 2016 was $.58 trillion. At EOY 2020 it was $3.13 trillion. At EOY 2024 it was $1.86 trillion. During this period we had COVID, Trumps tax cut bill, COVID payments to everyone in the US, (Trump COVID response plan among others) and Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act, among others. Not going to point fingers, but to paraphrase a famous senator, Everett Dickson, a trillion here and a trillion there and pretty soon you are talking real money. 
The bigger message, being a fiscal conservative,  is yes, we are spending too much money and as a start we don’t need the Trump tax cuts to be made permanent. I’ll pass on paying for a dinner for two based on what I got from Trump’s initial tax cut.
Norm Krueger,
former Aurora resident