Editor:

We felt obligated to sit through the first presidential debate, instead of the more sophisticated Sonny and Cher rerun. The Donald missed the boat by not taking advantage of Hillary’s tax-the-rich manifesto (Is anybody working for the poor man?). Hillary dragged out the decades-old pejorative, “trickle-down economics” to belittle Reagan’s supply-side economics, which nearly doubled federal revenue, while dramatically cutting taxes and leaving money for people to spend.

Donald didn’t direct enough shouting toward outrageous corporate taxation, the reason for migration out of the U.S. All we got were  embarrassing Hilliaryisms, aimed at the economically illiterate, and a restrained, ineffective Trump.

Tom GrahamArvada, Colo.