More on the KOCH Buddies ... Old letter to the Editor

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