Tax cuts

To the Editor:

It always catches my attention when a politician or political party is blamed for favoring the wealthy class. The favorite phrase used is “tax cuts for the rich.” Political attacks like these are always thrown out there in a mindless fashion knowing that if it gets repeated often enough, unsophisticated voters will reject the politician or political party that is being tagged.

In the Nov. 12 issue of The Review, Matt Pommer writes: “Scott Walker is vowing to cut state employee wages and benefits to help reduce state taxes on the wealthy.” That statement is a dishonest political attack on Walker’s gubernatorial candidacy because Pommer is trying to make the reader believe that Walker supports only “the rich.” Like all of the other similar attacks that I have seen and heard, Pommer supplies no common-sense reasoning behind his statement.

The fact of the matter is that the agenda Walker is proposing for Wisconsin as outlined in Pommer’s article will benefit everyone. Gov. Jim Doyle’s approach to our fiscal problems is to increase taxes on prosperous businesses and people willing to reside in our state. With that policy, Doyle is taking money that would otherwise be used for building business, investing, and making profits and directing it toward unproductive and wasteful government programs and salaries. Every penny that Doyle taxes from “the rich” cannot be used to create jobs and increase our standard of living. Walker wants to change the Doyle mentality in Madison because he knows that the fortunes of the rich, the middle class, and the poor rise and fall together.

Taxing “the rich” is like shooting birds on a fence. Shoot one bird and the rest fly away. As “the rich” continue to flee our state, the dreams and aspirations of Wisconsinites will also scatter to the wind.

Scott Walker believes in Wisconsin.

Dennis Gasper