Our Republican president and his cronies, including our own U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly, are touting their phony fraudulent tax cut plan. Under this plan our president proposes to return to the average American family a bit more than $400 annually. He touts, “It’s your money, you should decide how you spend it,� and the blind and the foolish sheep nod in agreement.
The tax savings will barely let an average American family supersize their fries after Saturday soccer or Little League. This “tax cut� scheme will cost the average American far more than it returns to his or her wallet.
Tax cuts require budget cuts.
Your son or daughter or other loved one is injured in Iraq. Guess who is already cutting the Veterans Administration budget to pay for your $400 tax “savings?� It’s Bush and Gallegly and that gang. Bet you’ll be glad for that $400 in tax savings you took, and I hope you’re proud.
This is the same gang of thieves that charged a wounded GI $700 because he let his body armor get bloody. Every injured GI gets shortchanged by the greed of those who sell their souls for $400.
Budget cuts will mean cuts in clean water enforcement. Buying bottled water will no longer be an elective luxury, it will be a health necessity.
Highway funds will be cut. Road maintenance deferred already will become a memory, but the routine maintenance for the damage done to your car will increase exponentially — and come out of your pocket.
Hospitals will close even more emergency rooms than they have, so when you get in an accident in South Central Los Angeles, the closest emergency room will be an hour away, and the time will cost your life — or, if it’s not that serious, extend your recovery and your disability. But you will have the $400 the Bush-Gallegly tax cut “gave you.�
As you lie semi-conscious in a board-and-care facility because the budget was cut, eliminating the emergency room that could have made a difference, your family will be able to supersize their fries when they come to visit — if they can afford to visit.
The tax cut is a fraud. It will cost each of us dearly in ways too numerous to detail.
— Ira Cohen, Oak Park
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