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William Crandell: Romney Hood
Published 9:48pm Wednesday, August 8, 2012I remember awhile back when presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that he wasn’t worried about the poor because they had a safety net.
He has proven the truth of that statement with his economic plan for America and it has become unmistakably clear that he truly cares very little for the impoverished and the middle class.
If elected, he will push for trickle down economic policies that will only worsen the lot of the underprivileged and do nothing to create jobs and improve our economy.
Romney’s tax reform plan will increase the tax burden on 18 million American families. The average family of four will now pay up to $2,000 more per year while the wealthiest 5 percent will receive an $87,000 tax cut.
This will shift what Romney refers to as an $86 billion tax burden away from high-income tax payers and place it squarely on the shoulders of the working poor. His jobs plan also strikes a blow at the working class and consists of eliminating 450,000 public sector jobs over 10 years and his plan will also cost the U.S. an estimated 360,000 jobs in 2013 alone and give corporations tax incentives to ship jobs overseas. The final result of his plan will mean 360 billion dollars in lost tax revenue that some experts are saying could trigger a deep recession.
After 10 years of the Bush tax cuts and trickle down economics these policies have failed to produce any jobs. Trickle down has proven to be a disastrous economic theory that Romney is stubbornly embracing. Personally I believe it is more about satisfying corporate America and the Tea Party than in doing what is best for our country. He is shamelessly seeking to gain the support and votes of a minority in the GOP who are using what constitutes bully tactics to keep from paying taxes. Is this sort of pandering what America needs in a president? Or do we deserve a president that will do the right thing for everyone?
In these tough economic times, we don’t need pandering; we need courage.
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I really do not understand how the American rich can look at themselves in the mirror each day. They all know they are cheating on their taxes, they all know they could pay millions more, they all know that there are fellow citizens who are hungry and homeless and jobless, sometimes because of their actions. I truly question their patriotic attachment to our country. We all are citizens of the United States of America, we are the family of Americans, and yet these rich uncles don’t care if some of us actually starve or if some of our children are undereducated or living out of automobiles. Uncle Scrooge always helped Donald and Huey, Dewey, and Louie. He never let them sleep in the street or go hungry. Even Ebenezer Scrooge, grandfather of us all, saw the error of his ways and let loose of the tight grip he had on his cash. I challenge Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, et al, to voluntarily underwrite construction jobs necessary to keep our country liveable: bridges, roads, schools, parks, libraries. We need a kick start and these very rich Americans could do their patriotic duty and, just like Ebenezer let loose of some cash.