Letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner

Mr. Smiley Face-Speaker John Boehner

Speaker Boehner:

Your stand on President Obama’s jobs programs simply reiterates the same, tired rhetoric we heard during the debates on raising the debt ceiling.  Are you so blinded by your aim at re-election that you don’t read the polls or pay attention to citizens who want to see taxes rise for those with earned income over $1million dollars as Warren Buffett implored Congress to do in his op-ed piece for the New York Times August 15, 2011?  In case you missed it, he wrote in part, “While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as ‘carried interest,’ thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they’d been long-term investors.”  Perhaps you should also reflect on a quote attributed to President Abraham Lincoln, which states, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”  You haven’t fooled me or tens of millions of others who have called for a tax hike on the wealthiest Americans.

You continually spout nonsense about how raising taxes will stifle job growth.  To what job growth are you referring?  No meaningful job growth has occurred this year.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that people do not use their personal money to hire employees for business they’ve started.  That money comes from the business entity.  I call for you and your fellow Republicans to come to the table with a healthy respect for Mr. Buffett’s idea, because it could certainly move us in the right direction of increasing revenues.  Oh, by the way, Patriotic Millionaires, a group of people with earned income well over $1 million, are calling for a rise in taxes as well.  How long will you ignore the obvious?

The Tea Party actually constitutes only a small percentage of Americans, yet you are paying careful attention to their demands.  Well, here’s another one for you.  Read the Preamble to the United States Constitution below and then commit yourself and encourage your party members to act accordingly.  So far, I see absolutely nothing coming from the Republicans that will offer relief to the beleaguered middle and lower class taxpayers.  In fact, I have seen evidence that some of you demonize poor people.  Get with it, Speaker Boehner.  Do the right thing for once!  Remember to read the Preamble below.

The Preamble to the United States Constitution states, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."(as originally written)

P.S. Please smile once in a while.  It will do wonders for your attitude.

Regards,

Ham on Wry