Dear Congressman Hultgren,
The Committee on Ways and Means have been working on Tax Extenders. This is why I wrote to you before, passing on the Fairtax, so this dance that has become a ritual every election year is in full swing. The person or group mentioned in the law, will solicit campaign contributions and failing to get, if the politician doesn’t support their particular bill. If we had the FairTax, you wouldn’t have to have these dances every time the “tax extenders” come up.
Oh, I know why most politicians don’t get behind the FairTax. If they did, they wouldn’t be able extort campaign contributions and shut out any challengers, getting re-elected even though the latest survey showed an approval rating of 9%. Shame on you guys. Is there not a patriot among you? Apparently not, judging your behavior and the others who were not co sponsors behavior.
If we are going to continue as a Republic, we must get rid of the Marxist Income Tax. Don’t think it is Marxist? Just look at the second chapter of the Communist Manifesto. He said he had to have the progressive income tax to destroy the despised “middle class.”
Continuing to extort campaign contributions from those who want benefits from the treasury, will make the civilization collapse sooner than later.
Also, you knew very well that the FairTax has been introduced every congress since 1999 and will be reintroduced every congress until passed. I implore you to get on board and to become an avid and vocal supporter of the FairTax.
Sincerely,
Wilton Jere Tidwell
Sun City resident
In Sun Day’s May 8 edition, David Williams was correct in asking “Not Looking For More of the Same?,” if we want more do-nothing representation going into the November 4 election. Most of us would agree that we want to elect representatives who will “…get positive legislation passed in Washington.” Two questions must then follow: “What is positive legislation?” and “Who would be the best people to bring it to us?”
Positive legislation should be seen as being right for America and we the people. What we are seeing and have seen for the past several years cannot rightly be called “positive” in those terms. A recession that has been followed by the worst economic recovery since the great depression, with “bailout” programs that have only taken us farther down the wrong road and “recovery” programs that have provided no recovery.
Programs that were promised to be “positive” included Obamacare (wrongly called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) which not only started badly (i.e. unpopular and corruptly passed) with troubled website and signup issues but has proven to continue getting worse as more becomes known. News update: The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report forecasting that the Affordable Care Act will cause the equivalent of more than two million full-time employees leaving the U.S. workforce in the next decade.
Across the board: energy, education, healthcare, jobs, economy, welfare, and more programs have shown to be controversial in substance and lacking in performance. Not much positive there.
The “do-nothing” Congress prize goes not to Republicans but to Harry Reid for demanding that no reasonable bill coming from the U.S. House shall be given any consideration. Mr. Reid is the “do-nothing” blockage to getting anything done.
As for representatives who can bring positive legislation from Washington, Randy Hultgren has taken steps to work with fellow representatives to pass legislation that would have been worthy of votes in the Senate if the leadership(?) there was to show interest in working together. Another roadblock there has been our very own U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, who has given unconditional support to Obamacare while working to take away our freedoms as guaranteed by our founding documents in the Bill of Rights.
Now is the time to educate ourselves on the issues important to our lives. It really comes down to these final questions: “Are we happy with what has been happening in Washington?”…or in Illinois for that matter? Those answers would help us with David Williams’ opening question: “Not Looking For More of the Same?” 2014 is the year for change we can begin to believe in.
Jim Nelson
Huntley Area Tea Party
False Accusations
This is to rebut recent editorials by David Williams, who represents Huntley Seniors for Progressive Action. He attacked Randy Hultgren and other congressional Republicans with these false accusations:
Republicans want to increase defense spending. There is no pending legislation to replace Obama’s meat-axe “Sequester” cuts that have severely weakened our national defense. Representative Hultgren. along with other congressional Republicans and Democrats are pushing for more flexibility in how to spend current defense dollars.
Republicans want to cut Medicaid and Food Stamps. We support these engines for helping our poorest citizens. However, spending on both programs is out of control. Millions who had health insurance are now on Medicaid and food assistance has tripled to 40 million people (many with jobs) since 2008.
Republicans are against raising the minimum wage. We are against a 40% increase that will guarantee the loss of a half million jobs. We are for a 5-10% increase that will help create entry-level opportunities for young people and re-entry jobs for the unemployed.
Republicans are against immigration reform. We are for assimilating law-abiding illegal citizens who are here. However, we want to enforce current laws that will truly control our borders and prevent a future flood of illegal citizens (including criminals like the 36,000 convicted felons that Eric Holder released in 2013).
Republicans are keeping Congress from getting anything done. House Republicans have passed a number of bills designed to repeal or fix the ACA. Senate Democrats and Harry Reid has blocked all of them. The same is true some 40 job bills and proposed legislation to address key energy, education, tax reform, and economic issues.
Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This is Mr. Williams one true statement. Obamacare has proved a disaster and it’s about to get worse. While the ACA impacts all 320 million of our citizens, less than 3% have signed up for coverage. Of that group, less than half pay premiums and few young people are signing up. Further, six of 12 state-run exchanges have collapsed (squandering $474 million) and the remaining six will follow suit.
These lies are in keeping with a “progressive” agenda that is destroying this country.
Richard Stack
Sun City Resident
