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Why do we talk so much about Social Security and Medicare when discussing the debt? Our tax code allows corporations making billions of dollars to pay no taxes. In the 1950s, corporations accounted for 32% of government revenue; today they account for 9%. We also spend an obscene amount of money on military defense. We are in this financial crisis as a result of corporate greed run amok because of deregulation. Don't blame the debt on the victims.

Joanne Garing, NORTH HUNTINGDON, PA.

What Yuval Levin fails to concede is that the wealthy have entitlements--all paid for by taxpayers who did not "earn" their own way.

R. Kiefer, ARVADA, COLO.

Cover Choices

I suppose Libya and its 6.5 million citizens are very important to the world's economy and maybe even to its political stability, but couldn't you have reversed the photos on your cover [April 4]? For more than 50 years, Elizabeth Taylor--unlike the despicable despot Gaddafi--made the world a better place to live in, starring in films depicting women with different ways of thinking and showing us all what a true professional and caring human being can achieve.

Charles P. McBride, GAITHERSBURG, MD.

TIME dishonored Taylor by placing her small, beautiful image on the cover with Gaddafi's large, ugly one. The cover should have been hers alone.

Barbara Camarro, FAIRFIELD, CONN.

Abortion Legislation

Re the Briefing story "A Push to Limit Abortion" [April 4]: I hope the governor of South Dakota, whose new law requires women seeking an abortion to go through waiting and dissuasive counseling, is offering a livable child-welfare payment to women who make "good choices." Such consistency of principles would be admirable.

Dave Dockham, HOOD RIVER, ORE.

A Crying Shame

Re Anne Kreamer's "Go Ahead--Cry at Work" [April 4]: Society's attitudes toward crying can be discerned in such frequently used axioms as "Knock it off or I'll give you something to cry about," "Suck it up" and "Big boys don't cry." Now we wonder why it's not socially acceptable to cry at work--or anywhere else--without guilt.

Richard Simonds, SAN CARLOS, CALIF.

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