Sir,I was somewhat perplexed by Jeffry Babb’s article, “Message to America: learn to like taxes” (News Weekly, October 17).His call for Americans to embrace higher taxes was problematic enough. But let me just focus on one statement, that “60 million Americans lack adequate health cover”. This is quite misleading.While accurate numbers on these matters are quite hard to come by, the common figure is 46 million Americans who do not have health insurance. But that figure needs to be carefully teas…
