Dear Mr Editor,
I
see the Koch Brother's Americans for Prosperity bus made a stop in
Warsaw recently. Evidently it doesn't take much to make the front
page of the paper these days. I guess there really isn't much else
happening in the world so this is big news. I must question just how
grass roots a movement is when it is founded by Billionaires in a
effort to push taxes even lower than they are now when you consider
that they are already historically the lowest they have been for the
last 50 years. When you take that into consideration in combination with the 2
wars we are still fighting, how could you not conclude that to
implement spending cuts with even more tax cuts in an effort to
reduce the national debt as anything but sheer folly. That would be
like me asking my boss for a reduction in pay and telling my family
they will have to go without food 2 days a week in order pay more on
my credit card bill. It would be insane. So when it comes to
prosperity whose prosperity are they talking about? Not mine, but
definitely the multi-billionaire oligarchy behind all these so called
grass root movements.
We need
to realize that a person so in love with money that they make it to
the billionaire stage is logically unlikely to spend millions of
dollars in an effort to help or appear to want to help the lower
classes unless there is some sort of payoff for their investment. The
economic freedom they speak about has little to do with re
industrializing the United States as much as it does to increasing
the bottom line. Which is ridiculous when most major corporations and
investment groups seem to get out of paying most of their taxes
anyway. Our tax code is so full of loopholes and corporate welfare
programs it pays to keep an army of tax lawyers around just to avoid
paying any taxes at all. Perhaps it should be called Americans for
Prosperity of Offshore Corporations. For example an excerpt from ABC
News: "GE's success at avoiding taxes is nothing short of
extraordinary. The company earned $14.2 billion in profits in 2010,
but it paid not a penny in taxes because the bulk of those profits,
some $9 billion, were offshore.” Wow... Do we really want to elect
a President whose experience at Bain Capital has led him in this
exact same direction?
Romney's
47% comments weren't off the cuff or taken out of context, they were
heartfelt. A glimpse into the motivations behind the ultra wealthy who
are bankrolling these grass root movements. They exhibit a complete chosen
ignorance of the struggles of the poor and middle class, which is bad
enough, but they were also an example of the sheer contempt that the Anti Obama financial backers really have for the same people they
have deceived into championing their cause.
Ted
Carter
Leesburg
