(faxed to their offices and emailed direct via their web sites - rfh)
To: (Barry Dunham) Barack Hussein Obama (Soetoro [Lolo Soebarkah]) II Jr. (President)
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (Senator, D-CA)
Barbara Levy Boxer (Senator, D-CA)
Robert Earl (Bob) Filner (Representative, D-CA 51st)
● People 'outside the beltway' do know what the debt ceiling is. We don't all have "low, sloping foreheads." (NYT)
● Do not raise the debt ceiling! If anything, lower it.
● Pass a balanced budget amendment to be sent to the states for ratification.
● Legislate federal spending cuts. Real cuts...no more phony "down the road promises."
● No more passing the buck to "study commissions, panels, or committees"
● You are responsible for our fiscal mess. Do the job you were elected to do - fix it.
● Quit laying off your responsibilities on previous administrations, both Democrat and Republican, and that holds for previous Democrat and Republican led Houses of Congress who may have failed to do their jobs but that doesn't excuse your failures to 'step up to the plate' and get our fiscal house in order.
● Cut entitlements including medicare.
● Repeal o'scamcare.
● Cut taxes, across the board, military, civilian, foreign aid, entitlements, benefits, ...any federally funded or subsidized programs.
● Cut budgets for all government agencies, across the board, at least 10% starting this fiscal year.
● Cut any entitlements or benefits that Representatives or Senators and your staff have that ordinary folks don't have.
● Pass a budget. Going almost 3 years without is a fraud upon the people, if not criminal negligence.
● Instead of playing "robin hood" with our tax money, pass a scheme whereby all people pay taxes equally be it a flat tax or a fair tax.
● Eliminate at least four (4) trillion from the federal budget, now, not 'down the road'...real cuts, not bookkeeping juggling. Make those cuts permanent.
● Mandate a defined downsizing of the government payroll and expenditures.
● You were elected to represent the people, not a political party, not a party line, not some foreign socialist ideology but American Republicanism and capitalism.
● We have to pay our bills. We have to balance our check books. We have to budget our expenses. We have to cut expenses and live within our means. So must the federal government.
● Do the job we elected you to do and quit making excuses for your failures to manage our monies properly.
● I and my friends will vote in November 2012 and vote against anyone who fails to 'clean up' the budget circus in Washington, D.C.
● We know who pays taxes and who doesn't.
● Knowing that nearly 50% of all people pay no taxes should be a warning that must not go unheeded. Consider a proposal that no one can vote on a tax or revenue issue unless they are paying federal income tax or property taxes.
● You are responsible for the fiscal mess we are in and you sought the responsibility to manage it.
● You are not doing your job. Show us that you can.
● Do not raise the debt ceiling! If anything, lower it.
● Pass a balanced budget amendment to be sent to the states for ratification.
● Legislate federal spending cuts. Real cuts...no more phony "down the road promises."
● No more passing the buck to "study commissions, panels, or committees"
● You are responsible for our fiscal mess. Do the job you were elected to do - fix it.
● Quit laying off your responsibilities on previous administrations, both Democrat and Republican, and that holds for previous Democrat and Republican led Houses of Congress who may have failed to do their jobs but that doesn't excuse your failures to 'step up to the plate' and get our fiscal house in order.
● Cut entitlements including medicare.
● Repeal o'scamcare.
● Cut taxes, across the board, military, civilian, foreign aid, entitlements, benefits, ...any federally funded or subsidized programs.
● Cut budgets for all government agencies, across the board, at least 10% starting this fiscal year.
● Cut any entitlements or benefits that Representatives or Senators and your staff have that ordinary folks don't have.
● Pass a budget. Going almost 3 years without is a fraud upon the people, if not criminal negligence.
● Instead of playing "robin hood" with our tax money, pass a scheme whereby all people pay taxes equally be it a flat tax or a fair tax.
● Eliminate at least four (4) trillion from the federal budget, now, not 'down the road'...real cuts, not bookkeeping juggling. Make those cuts permanent.
● Mandate a defined downsizing of the government payroll and expenditures.
● You were elected to represent the people, not a political party, not a party line, not some foreign socialist ideology but American Republicanism and capitalism.
● We have to pay our bills. We have to balance our check books. We have to budget our expenses. We have to cut expenses and live within our means. So must the federal government.
● Do the job we elected you to do and quit making excuses for your failures to manage our monies properly.
● I and my friends will vote in November 2012 and vote against anyone who fails to 'clean up' the budget circus in Washington, D.C.
● We know who pays taxes and who doesn't.
● Knowing that nearly 50% of all people pay no taxes should be a warning that must not go unheeded. Consider a proposal that no one can vote on a tax or revenue issue unless they are paying federal income tax or property taxes.
● You are responsible for the fiscal mess we are in and you sought the responsibility to manage it.
● You are not doing your job. Show us that you can.
Sincerely, a constituent who'll vote in November 2012.
Robert Harrold, El Centro, California 92243
Robert Harrold, El Centro, California 92243
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that "the buck stops here." Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better." -- Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), March 20, 2006
Who Pays Income Taxes and how much?
Tax Year 2008
Percentiles Ranked by AGI | AGI Threshold on Percentiles | Percentage of Federal Personal Income Tax Paid |
Top 1% | $380,354 | 38.02 |
Top 5% | $159,619 | 58.72 |
Top 10% | $113,799 | 69.94 |
Top 25% | $67,280 | 86.34 |
Top 50% | $33,048 | 97.30 |
Bottom 50% | <$33,048 | 2.7 |
Note: AGI is Adjusted Gross Income Source: Internal Revenue Service | ||
chart source: http://www.federalbudget.com
