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Middle class beware – new taxes will be aimed at you

Dear Editor,

Taxing the middle class to grow and expand government is the Democrat way; don’t be fooled by their straw man (“the rich”). Obama, like Clinton, will say anything to get re-elected, and then backstab. Remember when Clinton said, “I will not tax the middle class to pay for these programs,” and then revealed that anyone making more than $20,000 was “rich”?

If you doubt this, why, beginning this tax year (carefully implemented to take effect after the 2012 election), will our medical insurance value be reported on our W-2’s? (Answer: So they can tax our already-expensive medical insurance plans!) Fortunately, support for Obamacare has reached yet a new low and will likely be thrown out by the most decent Supreme Court in decades.

Statewide and local, look at the tax-hike petitions that are being passed by Gov. Moonbeam’s stooges. Read them – every one contains a tax hike on the middle class! The public employees pension system is in debt, and due to court rulings, funding for those comes off the top. Their propaganda will ramble on about why their jobs are far more important than those of the rest of us, and how we so desperately need them to lord over us for our safety – protecting us from ourselves – and for their twisted lie known as social “justice.”

Much like they did with the lottery and various transportation measures, they can, and will, bait and switch if the people are dumb enough to agree to pay more – to throw more money into the pit known by the former euphemism as “government.” They pass petitions and tell us it’s a tax for education, and while those funds do go to education, they divert the same amount (or more) therefrom to items that would never come close to passing (like pensions for the elite, or the waste known as VTA).

The best thing that could happen is the complete financial collapse – implosion – of the government, both state and federal. It is the only way to force the reform granted some occasional, election-year lip service by the elected elite. And the sooner it happens, the less damaging it will be in the long run. But then again, long-term thinking hasn’t happened at the federal level since 1789.

Alan Viarengo, Gilroy

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