Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the Editor:

Re “High-Speed Rail Poised to Alter China” (Business Day, June 23):

As we persist in allowing other countries to outdo us in the development of high-speed rail, the quality of health care, the implementation of cleaner energy solutions, and the rigor of math and science programs in schools, does the “no new taxes under any circumstances or for any reason” right wing have a plan in place to bring us back up from the bottom 20 years from now?

CLAUDETTE SORTINO
South Ryegate, Vt., June 23, 2011

Note from KBJ: Yes. The plan is called free enterprise. Government has no business being in the rail business, the health-care business, or the clean-energy business. As for schools, these should be run at the local level.