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November 18, 2017 09:05 PM UTC

We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident

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  • by: harrydoby

I wrote the following to Senator Cory Gardner’s “Share Your Thoughts on Fixing our Tax Code and Growing Wages” page.  Since it requires fully identifying myself, I wanted to post it here as well under my name so that it wouldn’t disappear into the black hole of his email inbox.

Tax Relief for the wealthy is a waste of money and hurts our future

Republicans in Congress have been promoting this tax cut bill as aimed at the middle class, and not to benefit the already well-off among us. And yet the Congress’ own non-partisan analysts have proven that only the wealthy will have permanent tax cuts while the rest face rising taxes in a few years after all the gimmicks the GOP inserted into the bill expire. As any economist not named Laffer will gladly explain to you with hard evidence from both the Reagan and Bush years, trickle-down economics doesn’t work, and you are guaranteeing ballooning the deficit yet again which will grant you the excuse to cut not the bloated, never audited Pentagon budget, but rather the safety net that our elderly and infirm need and deserve. We have full employment and yet Republicans want to halt even legal immigration. Trump is doing everything he can to damage our economy by threatening world trade and our power to control our economic destiny. Can we build a better future for our children by making education a priority? Yes, but not with your bill that disincentivizes education and effectively relegates our young to dead-end jobs at little more than minimum wage.

The American people have given the GOP full control of Congress, the White House and even the Courts. In return, your party has pursued short-sighted, self-destructive, self-serving and backward looking policies that will set our country back for a generation, or more. We elect our representatives to lead, and to build a better future for all Americans. The world has looked to us for leadership for nearly a century, and all the GOP has to offer is ignorance, cowardice and venality — shirking your opportunity to lead, offering just a shriveled, inchoate message of bluster, failed policies and nonsensical reasoning.

The moral, ethical and intellectual bankruptcy of your party is in full display. Voters have started to realize the damage you have wrought, and will be voicing their opinion at the ballot box. Jamming this tax bill through with all the damage it will cause, just because you are desperate to notch a “win” merely illustrates how pathetic the set of values are that you hold so dear.

The depths of my disgust for the actions you and members of your party are taking knows no bounds. You should be ashamed, but your words and actions show you have no shame.  The knowledge that you are not even the worst among your party dismays me the most.

That is what makes me fear for all of our futures.

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3 thoughts on “We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident

  1. Have you gotten his form "response" back yet?

    I've been unimpressed with the casual disdain of Gardner office replies — they don't even bother to acknowledge the content of the web mail or phone message, only shoving out a reply based on topic.

  2. Cory Gardner Town Hall in Pueblo Monday at 1130 am

    Details:  (from Gardner's Senate site)

    Who:               U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO)

    What:              Pueblo Town Hall

    When:             Monday, November 20th, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. MT

                              Doors open at 10:30 a.m. MT

    Where:            Pueblo Convention Center

                              320 Central Main St, Pueblo, CO 81003

    Parking:    Please use the SRDA parking lot (located off Alan Hammel between Union Ave and Central Main Street)

    This is another one of Gardner's "stealth" town halls. Pueblo peeps, I know that you'll step up and let Gardner know that we don't care for the GOP tax plan.

    If Cory Gardner cancels, citing "his schedule", perhaps @CardboardCory can stand in.

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