Liberals Raise Taxes? by Chelle Stockman My response to NewsMax

News Max is blaming liberals for high prices and taxation.  They sent me a letter.  If you notice how it starts I want to ask a similar question of all of you and I want you to be thinking about the first question Newmax asks of us.  Question example offered:  How does an orange peel help to protect an apple?  Okay, now go read their letter and my response. 

Here is the first part of it:

Dear Newsmax reader,

How exactly do higher taxes help lower energy costs? (Hint: They don’t.)

It’s one question the Democrat leadership in Congress can’t answer, no matter how long they talk.

The truth is, the tax and spend crowd is just looking for ways to increase taxes on American consumers by targeting domestic energy production.  At a time when already high energy costs are weighing heavy on this country’s economy, and when signs are indicating that even more trouble may be ahead, why would Congress seek to pass legislation that will raise prices and increase financial hardships by strangling America’s energy supply?  Congress should be looking to cut taxes, not increase them.  Higher energy prices won’t avert or minimize a recession.  They’ll do just the opposite.

My Response to them was this:

Members of Congress are not responsible for the state we are in anymore than you and I are.  That goes for conservative, moderates, and liberals.  However, as Milton Sinclair (meant to say Milton Freidman while thinking of Upton Sinclair, but oh well, I blew it again, kinda like Oberman does) pointed out so long ago, the Free Market Economic policies we have in place are directly responsible.

 

Truth is, pump prices will change as we convert to using mostly Natural Gas.  Many Republicans and Democrats are in collusion to bring us what they call Alternative Energy when real alternative energy does not use carbon based sources.  Their ideas of green energy involve the color money. 

 

Regarding taxation, you do not lower taxes when you are spending so much.  The war outside our country and homicides in our country, the building of bridges and tunnels instead of shoring up our current infrastructure, these things determine our level of taxation. 

 

That's my way of interpreting the knowledge I have.

 

Chelle Stockman

 

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