Re: “,” Dec. 12 guest commentary.
In his guest commentary, Sen. Cory Gardner states, “It is my great honor to serve the people of Colorado.”
Let’s be clear about this: The majority of voters in Colorado elected Gardner, but he does not serve the state, he serves President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the other leaders of the Republican Party, whose goal with this tax bill is to benefit their super-rich paymasters at the expense of everyone else.
If Sen. Gardner served the people of Colorado, he would not have voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. If Sen. Gardner served the people of Colorado, he would not have voted for the Senate’s wrongheaded, disingenuous and vicious tax plan, which is merely another handout to that most parasitic class of society, the hyper-rich, who need a tax break about as much as Colorado needs more pine beetles.
DzǴDZ, Denver
In his defense of the Republican tax plan, Sen. Cory Gardner says Coloradans are “problem solvers, focused on answers, not ideologies.” He adds that Coloradans sent him to the Senate “to find solutions.” Perhaps he should remember this sometime, for all he does is toe the Republican ideological line, whether itap on Obamacare or the GOP tax plan, which is more of a rushed plan to boost corporate profits and Republican election prospects in 2018 than anything else. Indeed, what benefits individuals get will disappear in 10 years, leaving the country with $1.5 trillion in added debt that Gardner doesn’t address in his defense of the plan.
Nor, perhaps to his credit, does Gardner mention the Republicans’ baseless insistence that economic growth will pay for the plan. Nor is he honest enough to reveal that corporate America does not actually pay a 35 percent tax rate. Indeed, studies show some big corporations pay nothing while others pay in the low 20s already. Republicans say their plan will boost wages. But we should take to heart Gardner’s statement that “wage growth does not come from corporate benevolence.”
ʱٱ.ѳܲԲ, Arvada
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