From Barb Nemec
Darlington
To the Editor:
Elections are coming and every citizen can vote for the candidate of their choice. With respect to an earlier writer, I make one recommendation: DO NOT BELIEVE what someone who is obviously for ONE SIDE, tells you is the position or motivation for the OTHER SIDE. Anyone who is firmly on the left side of things doesn’t understand folks on the right, and doesn’t spend time trying to figure it out. They are repeating advertising slogans and old rhetoric. If you want to understand the position of the other side, ask someone who is on the other side why they feel that way.
It used to be republicans were more affluent and pro-business so assumed to be for the wealthy. Not true anymore. The republicans are still pro-business but the reason is because they are pro workers and pro jobs. They want to bring businesses back to this country and reduce the deficit when those well paid employees and companies pay their taxes. They can reduce the deficit without raising tax rates. They can do even better by reducing federal spending by shrinking the size of the bureaucracy. Republicans would like to get government regulations out of the way so the economy can thrive.
It used to be democrats were for the “poor” folks and therefore pro-big government in order to help the poor. Democrats want folks to get good hand outs. But if we’ve figured out who is paying for the hand-outs and the wars, and the free college, and the benefits for illegal immigrants. Democrats want to reduce the deficit by raising everyone’s taxes: the rates for every type of income and even income you haven’t earned yet. That drives businesses away reducing the number of good jobs, and when we’re all poor they’ll have to raise everyone’s taxes. And big-government folks never want to shrink the government bureaucracy. Democrats like big government to reduce our personal freedom by regulating everything.
What we need is somewhere in the middle. And term limits for congress.
Don’t let one side get your vote by telling you how bad the other side is. Ask them what they have done about inflation, illegal immigration and crime? Ask them what they will do about problems that affect you. If you want to know what the other side thinks, ask someone who is on the other side.
