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won't you take a look? ...His son is working for the daily mail. It's a steady job, but he wants to be an internet writer.
Okay, here's my LTTE. About my Congresscritter, but applicable to Republicans everywhere.
"At the candidates forum in Leavenworth on Saturday, Congressman Ryun seemed to stress two things. First, that he brought federal dollars to Leavenworth, and second that he believes in tax cuts. Apparently the new Republican philosophy is "borrow and spend". Should pork buy a re-election or did that money come to Leavenworth based on the merit of those projects? Should we fund them with borrowed money? Nobody likes a tax increase, but spending borrowed money means you will pay much more in the long run. That $1000 child tax credit will be paid back by your children, with interest. Worse yet, that tax credit is a drop in the bucket compared to the tax cut that went to Bill Gates types. A simple example should illustrate that. For my taxable income of $19,000 my taxes were $1718.25 in 2001 and $1278.25 in 2005. A tax cut of $440. Then there's my Uncle Charlie (not really a relative). According to Forbes, Charles Koch was worth $4.5 billion in 2005 and worth $12 billion in 2006. Let me estimate that his income is $10 million. Then, in 2001 his taxes were $3.887 million and in 2005 they were $3.48 million. A tax cut of $407,000! Jim Ryun does not want to talk about that. He calls it class warfare to point out the fact that he and his fellow Republicans are giving large benefits to people like my Uncle Charlie. Ryun seems to believe that there is no way to create a tax cut to save me $440 without also saving a multi-millionaire $400 thousand! He would also have you believe that there is no way to eliminate the tax cut for the multi-millionaires without also eliminating the tax cut for people like me. He is wrong on both counts. Ryun may call it class warfare, but I think that tax cuts and other laws should benefit ordinary Americans more than they benefit the very wealthy. I am proud to fight for ordinary working people, that's why I have been working to elect Nancy Boyda. She promises to fight against big money control of Congress. Ryun denies that big money is in control, while he claims that tax cuts that give $400,000 to multi-millionaires actually benefit you and me. They do, a little bit, but they benefit the rich much more. Those are the people Ryun has been working for when he should have been working for you and me."
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