Morrow County Democrats for Change

        It’s time to end the huge tax cuts to the wealthy. They have had these cuts for more than ten years now. Borrowing more money pays for all the cuts. If Republicans care about the deficit, they should end these cuts now. The claim that the wealthy need tax cuts in order to create jobs has lost its credibility; ten years of cuts have not created jobs.

        Social Security has not missed a payment. It has been a good safety net, into which millions of Americans have paid for over 70 years. As more Americans retire and fewer pay in, it would not be hard to raise the amount of income on which people pay a payroll tax. Thinking that Wall Street would take care of our money better than Social Security has challenges reason. Would you want Lehman Brothers investing your retirement money?

        Many Americans who work two jobs or earn only minimum wage work as hard as billionaires. Let’s not pretend that you can tell how responsible or hard working someone is by how much money he or she makes. That is a false value. Any first-grade teacher or fireman or janitor you know works harder than some in Congress and makes more of a difference for good than greedy people at the top of the money chain.

        Those who think corporations are people and deserve more of the pie have forgotten what America is about. When you take away people’s vote, their right to organize, their access to good schools and decent housing and health care, you end up with a Third World country. If we want to have few regulations, few worker protections, little environmental protection, no sharing of burdens, we, too, can be like China.