Dear Senator Alexander,
I read your "Flat Tax" announcement and I have a few questions. But before I get to that, I want to look at a few key statistics about the state of our country since you went to Washington:
- Almost 6 years in office
- More than 4,034 Americans killed in Iraq and 29,628 wounded
- $9 Trillion in debt loaded onto our children and grandchildren
- Mortgages being foreclosed upon across America
- Gas prices stuck at more than $3 a gallon
- Almost 6 years of blind support for the failed policies of George Bush
- Almost 6 years of silence and benign neglect on health care, education, the economy and energy prices
What a record! And now, in an election year, you propose a sweeping overhaul of the entire tax code via a press release as most Americans file their tax returns.
Perhaps you have been saving yourself for this moment.
Perhaps you have spent six years drafting this sweeping proposal and, only by coincidence, did you get finished with it on Tax Day of an election year.
Senator Alexander, I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. I'm hoping that this is not a tawdry political stunt.
To put this perception to rest, I propose that you show us your budget for your new tax plan.
Show us how you fund our troops, care for our veterans, fully fund a sensible GI Bill and pay down the massive debt you've run up.
Show us how you will protect Social Security and Medicare.
Show us how the thousands Tennessee families keep homeowner exemptions at tax time.
Tell us what you would cut. Education? Health care? Social Security? Homeland Security? Student Loans? Corporate welfare for big oil companies?
Senator Alexander this is your chance to put me in my place. Prove to me this isn't an election year gimmick.
Better yet, let's schedule a public meeting to discuss it. Bring your plan. We will invite the media and have a calm chat about your plan.
I'm calling your bluff. I want to see your hole card.
Respectfully,
Bob Tuke
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HE HAS BEEN THE ONE OF THE REPUBLICAN OLDE TIME POLITICO'S WHO IS ALWAYS THERE IF THEY HAVE THE MONEY!!!!!
In any case ... it would be a great discussion if it were to actually occur. Alas, if this isn't an election year, tax time - tawdry stunt - we'll be ordering Furnaces from China to cool off hell.
We hope to write about your letter and his reply since we have family and friends in Tennessee.
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At least the little I know from this Blog.
UNEARNED income would not be taxed at all.
What we need to tax people on is the value of the natural resources they own.
It is "floats all boats" (well, look at that muddy bottom our economy's about to hit).
Great on paper - Lousy on the community.
Republican
How's the pothole percentage on YOUR local highway?
Sen. Alexander'
These people really believe such nonsense. They believe it because it fits so nicely with an ideology simple enough for them to think that they have grasped it. It is such a simplistic and simple-min
These people are left with nothing but this simplistic nonsense because they can't do the math. They can't deal with the complexiti
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatis
The wealthy get far more benefits from the government
It is a poorly disguised attempt by the wealthy to rip off the poor and middle class. However poorly disguised, it is sufficient to appeal to those too ignorant to see through the facade. To which group do you belong?
Ich denke, folglich bin ich ein Populist.
It's the people with UNEARNED income who get to choose whether or not they're going to pay taxes, and the Bush administra
That is exactly what they are doing with my FICA while they are holding it for me until after April 15. They don't want to cut me a share of the action.
In other words, a huge tax cut for the wealthiest of the country - especially CEOs paid in options and stocks. In fact, I'd be shocked if CEOs under a repug flat tax plan don't demand to be paid ENTIRELY in stocks and options so that they don't have to pay any taxes at all.
So prepare for that, Mr. Tuke - and best of luck to you!
While you are at it, you should also invite Huckabee with his proposal of the "consumpti
I would be very interested in this debate. And no prejudgeme
If you don't have enough money to stash some in a bank account, you are using 100% of your income to consume.
On the other hand you have millions, you're using a pittance on consumptio
You also have no deductions
Of course, if they feel that their need is greater than yours, say during a war in the Middle East, you wouldn't get quite as much back. ( maybe even nothing if their need is really, really great, say when we're 9trillion dollars in debt.
Corporatio
Just my opinion.