Are you fed up with the influence of money in politics? A GOP congressman was recently quoted as saying, “My donors told me to pass the Republican tax bill or ‘don’t ever call me again.’”
The so-called “cut, cut, cut” tax bill has nothing to do with making America great. It has nothing to do with heading off levels of inequality reaching pre-Depression levels, nothing to do with helping the declining middle class, their retirements and most certainly, nothing to do with helping those already on the ropes.
It has everything to do with politicians kowtowing to their donor class’ expectations of a huge return on their investment in them.
It’s about borrowing a trillion and a half dollars on the full faith and credit of the children of the United States of America, not to invest in their future education, health, housing or infrastructure, but rather to put cash in the off-shore accounts of large corporations, their ultra-rich benefactors and to build dynasties of funding for politicians sympathetic to their causes (so representatives spend even less time listening to you).
I urge you to contact Rep. Scott Tipton and Sens. Gardner and Bennett. Demand that they vote no on this tax bill that’s not in your family’s or any Coloradan’s interest.
We are a government of, by and for the people, and this corruption cannot be allowed to stand.
Doug Fults
Durango
