Another letter

Senator Johnson responded to my email with a generic form letter that merely restated the GOP talking points, blah, blah, blah.

So I sent him another:

Mr. Johnson,

I have written you before about the budget, and your staff merely responded with a form letter that you send everyone regarding the budget.

You and your party seem intractable in your demands that any debt or deficit reduction be accomplished solely through cuts in spending. I find this approach reprehensible and at least in the case of the GOP Congressional members, duplicitous.

Earlier this year, Speaker Beohner released a report on his own website. In it numerous economists concluded that the most successful recovery programs were a consolidation of spending cuts and revenue increase. The average ratio that best accomplishes that is 85% cuts and 15% revenue increase.

Please don't send me the usual GOP talking points. Just answer this. What is wrong with that ratio? What is wrong with going along with what your own party has posted as a legitimate solution? The CBO has pointed out that simply letting the 2001 tax cuts expire will reduce the problem by over 4 trillion dollars. Those tax cuts have contributed to the problem greatly. That cannot be denied.

Those cuts have not created jobs as the GOP is so fond of claiming. Those cuts have caused jobs to be shipped overseas. Those tax cuts have caused the overall wealth of the top 10 percent of income earners to increase while 90 percent of wage earners saw their overall wealth decline.

Fifty percent of the country earns less than 30000 dollars a year. That is simply unjustifiable, yet I sincerely blame you and your party for the dire straits in which a large number of Americans find themselves.

So exactly why don't you agree with your own economists?

Some solutions are indeed possible:

Let the Bush era tax cuts expire. Eliminate the FICA contribution cap of 106000. Eliminate business tax loopholes.

Do you have the guts and courage to do this?

Again, don't send me a form letter. Respond to this one.

Sincerely,
Tim Mocarski
Racine, WI