How to give an interview at your Tea Party

Chagrined,

You know, last August I would have written exactly the same comment. But during the campaign in the fall, I finally did a lot more reading about taxes and the effect of lower taxes on unleashing economic growth and creating jobs. Lower taxes are especially beneficial for the real job creators, entrepreneurs and small business owners. When the government is taking too much of your money, you do not have enough left after covering your basic needs to donate to your favorite charities or to start and grow your own business because you have a dream, a passion or a great discovery. That is what high taxes kill. I suggest you spend some more time at American Thinker, Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit and the Heritage Foundation.

What I realize now is that liberalism believes in government, rather than the individual, and it uses high taxes to take individual freedom and hand it over to the government. I had to use plenty of government services for my late life partner, and it was hell. Almost every single bureaucrat I worked with cared only about himself or herself. One even forced me to withdraw Margaret from hospice care because she had an insane and wrong interpretation of a regulation. I had to apply pressure through our state senator and the press to get that reversed and get Margaret back into hospice care. This was not the exception — this was extremely TYPICAL of what I had to do to fight for her.

Fiscal conservatives believe in the individual and support policies, including tax policies, that foster all kinds of creativity and allow individuals to realize their ambitions and prosper. Everyone wins. Also, fiscal conservatives are not asking to pay no taxes but rather only to be taxed for the minimum things that government does best. Communism and socialism already have shown that centrally planned economies produce failure, stagnation and even starvation. Check out the history of Cuba and Argentina if the history of China and Russia don’t appeal to you.

Also, my ancestors did come as colonists in 1648 and one fought with George Washington at Valley Forge. I am eligible to join the Daughters of the American Revolution. FYI.

Have you considered that since you are in a hurry to live in a socialist country or under the dictatorship of a planned economy, there are plenty of places for YOU to go?

I lived for many years in a community overwhelmed by illegal aliens. I agree that they are exceptionally ungrateful, feel extraordinarily entitled and far too many do not want to pay their fair share of taxes or sacrifice themselves or their children to serve the U.S. in the military. But it is Obama and the Democrats who want to open our borders and give illegal aliens drivers’ licenses, Medicaid, schooling and welfare benefits and allow them to vote as if they were citizens. And it appears to be Obama and the Democrats — who are bankrupting this country — whom you support. Dude! Do your homework! Come toward the light!

Cynthia