In response to Joe Voisine’s letter to the editor (“U.S. needs to live within its means, cease overspending,” June 12), I offer this quote from Monday’s Heather Cox Richardson’s commentary: “ Not two weeks after threatening to refuse to raise the debt ceiling because of their stated concerns over the nation’s mounting debt, Republicans are calling for tax cuts. The nonprofit public policy organization the Committee for a Responsible Budget estimates that over a decade those cuts will cost $80 billion as written and more than $1.1 trillion if made permanent. The frontloading in the measure, they estimate, will make it cost $320 billion by the end of 2025.”

So much for conservative “fiscal responsibility.”

William Phillips, Auburn