22 April
2017
Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher,
101 Main
Street #380
Huntington
Beach, CA 92648
Dear
Congressman,
Re: Taxes
I note
that the White House plans to release its spectacular tax plan today, in time
to (hopefully) salvage something from the first 100 day debacle. Word is that
business, big and small, will stand to benefit the most. The stock market soars
in anticipation. Rubbing its manicured hands.
While I
understand the value of stimulating business and, with it, perhaps, hopefully,
job growth (I approve!), the whole theory of trickle-down economics has proved
over the years to be a wrong-headed illusion. Look at Kansas! I trust that, as
my representative, you will remain keenly alert to downside of using the tax code
to further benefit the rich at the cost of the middle classes and—especially!—the
poor. As I’m sure you must be aware, there are other ways of stimulating job
growth than feeding more money from the national treasury into the pockets of
the wealthy. Whatever happened to the idea of working on the infrastructure?
Incidentally—I
may have mentioned this before, and I say it as an immigrant from socialist
Europe—I have never fully understood the American aversion to paying a fair
share of taxes. Unless, of course, the proceeds are squandered lavishly and needlessly
on military excess.
Respectfully,
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