In order to resist Trump and the Republican agenda it is not enough to blog to people of like mind. We can join demonstrations, or as writers we can confront alternative facts whenever they surface
The following is a letter I sent to the editors of major and local news outlets in Maine. Feel free to copy or use any part in Resistance Publishing
FACTS AND
ALTERNATIVE FACTS
According to
who you listen to, the first week of the Trump Presidency has been the greatest
week in American governance or the beginning of the dismantling of American
values.
There have been
too many declarations and Executive Orders to cover in one short commentary, so
I will focus on just one.
Paul Ryan
stated that now the Republicans have the Presidency, the House and the Senate
they can begin to simplify the tax code.
This sounds like a great move, because we all feel that tax preparation
is too difficult.
But the
devil is often in the details. To
Republicans, ‘simplification of the tax code’ means drastically lowering
corporate taxes, taxes on investment income and taxes on the mega-wealthy.
In order to
pay for these tax cuts, the Republicans will cut discretionary spending.
‘Discretionary spending’ is the covert phrase
for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and government subsidized health care
(The Affordable Care Act.) There is a
Republican proposal now to increase the Social Security retirement age to
seventy and to cut benefits in existing Social Security and Medicare payments.
But, if you
live in the Fox alternative news world you will not worry about simplification
of the tax code; because the alternative issues are women who enjoy killing
their unborn children, gays destroying family values and Democrats who wish to
take away your guns and your freedom.
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the Ol'Buzzard
I'd get ran out of town on a rail..this is Texas ..they think he's da'man.
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