Letters to the Editor: Wealth transfer happens every day — but it’s from the poor to the rich

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To the editor : Although contributing writer Veronique de Rugy provides multiple observations to illuminate the rising affordability problem in America — most fetchingly describing the Walmart “inflation-free Thanksgiving meal” as shrinkage — she doesn’t actually offer any solutions ( “The real answer to the Republicans’ ‘affordability problem,’” Nov. 13). She does proclaim that wealth transfers (presumably from rich to poor) are not a solution and points out that steady 3% inflation reduces the value of the dollar by 26% after a decade.

I wonder about the wealth transfer of poor to rich more than I do about wealth transfer from rich to poor. This takes place every day when sal