I look at this tax cut package and think about what a fine thing it will be for Charles Koch, the Mercers and other billionaires. They will sure be happy!
The problem is that I’m middle class. I won’t get much of a cut at all, and what I will ultimately lose in Social Security and Medicare, if you get your way, far exceeds that couple hundred dollars extra in my pocket from this tax cut.
Do you know what I’d MUCH rather have? I’d rather have a country where there's no hunger, no homelessness, and where everyone — regardless of the wealth of their parents — has access to quality healthcare and education.
I mean, think about that for a minute in light of best interests of the people who actually voted you into office, how good that would be for us. Such a country would do the American people SO much more good than this tax cut.
Therefore, with all due respect to your ideology of disliking the very government that employs you, and as much as you might be feeling pressure to keep those campaign donations coming in, I’m formally requesting, as one of your middle-class constituents, that you instead act in my best interests. Here are three specific steps I’d like you to take to get started:
1. Expand Medicare to serve Americans 55 years and older.
2. Expand Social Security to keep our parents and grandparents out of poverty.
3. Eliminate corporate tax loopholes and level them out at 20%. In other words, leave the Senate mistake concerning the AMT in place so that deductions cannot reduce the corporate burden below 20%.
Note that I had a wonderful talk with one of your DC staffers the other day concerning net neutrality, but that is for another letter.
With all due respect and sincerely,
My name and location
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