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Tea plan hard to swallow

Sat., March 5, 2011

I just finished reading the Feb. 27 article about the tea party policy talks. The most interesting comments came from former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and presidential candidate Herman Cain. He advocates lowering the corporate tax rate, eliminating the capital gains tax and suspending taxes on the profits corporations park offshore.

Really? That’s the plan? To give even more money to the guys who have been shipping our jobs overseas for the last 20 years? And then to make it even easier to hide their money in offshore accounts so they don’t pay any taxes at all?

While the rest of us are struggling to pay the mortgage or send our children to school? That’s the Republican/tea party plan? Think I’ll pass.

Rick Gallinger

Veradale

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