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Open Letter to John Carney

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Open Letter to John Carney

Representative Carney,

Your Democratic colleagues in the House are supporting an effort to expand Social Security benefits. I think it is time for you to break with the right-wing policies you’ve supported in the past and join your fellow Democrats in helping restore sanity to the debate over this vital social insurance program that has done so much to allow our nation’s elderly to live in dignity.

At a time when the 401k system has been proven to be a failed experiment, based on legalized theft, it is not time to cut social security benefits. Rather, it is a time to ensure Social Security’s long-term solvency by “scraping the cap” and stop excluding income over $113,700 from the social security tax.

The current proposal, supported by your Democratic colleagues, would […]

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Open Letter to John Carney On the Occasion of Your “Town Hall” Conference Call

Filed in National by on October 5, 2011 12 Comments

Dear Congressman,

I listened to your conference call “town hall meeting” and I was amazed by how many times you mentioned the magical effects that a payroll tax cuts could have on our economy.

As a small business person, I’d like to disabuse you of this notion that payroll tax cuts stimulate hiring.

Unlike you and every member of Congress who is in love with this idea that payroll tax cuts are the most awesome thing in the world, I am someone who pays payroll taxes, and I can assure you that payroll tax cuts are practically invisible to both the employee and the small business employer. The only thing that will stimulate hiring is increased demand. No sane business person is going to hire new employees absent increasing demand for their product or service. I want to like you, but you have been brainwashed and are spouting nonsense. Please stop it.

Consider this, if tax cuts are the job creating machine that you make them out to be, where are all the jobs? Since George W. Bush’s first term we’ve been feed a steady diet of magical tax cuts and look at the employment paradise that the tax cuts have created.

Stick to talking about infrastructure. You mentioned that in passing. But you mentioned infrastructure spending once for every five times you mentioned payroll tax cuts last night.

Flip that ratio around if you want to continue enjoying the support of Delaware’s small business community.

Sincerely,

Jason330

PS. The “Town Hall” Conference Call format is a travesty. Just saying.

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 14, 2024

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Meet Suck-Up #1:  While other Rethug senators’ heads exploded at the idea of having to vote to confirm Matt Gaetz to be AG, one senator said the following: “He’s smart — clever guy,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said of Mr. Gaetz, adding: “I usually support presidential picks to be in their cabinet. […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 12, 2024

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Trump Comes Out For Full-Fledged Fascism.  Not bothering to hide it: Donald Trump wants to immediately invoke a more than 200-year-old wartime law that grants the president unilateral authority to deploy federal law enforcement for rounding up and deporting immigrants as soon as he enters office. The former president, speaking from Aurora, Colorado on Friday, […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024

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55,000 Bibles.  The Oklahoma Superintendent has ordered a Bible in every classroom.  The RFP limits the Bible that must be purchased to, wait for it: Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 9, 2024

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Just A Note Before We Go…Onto Something Other Than The Attempted Swift-Boating Of Tim Walz.  Two notes, actually. The guy who swift-boated John Kerry is the same guy trying to pull the same dirty trick on Walz: The common denominator in both efforts: Trump campaign co-manager Chris LaCivita. LaCivita played a key role in the […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 2, 2024

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If you only listen to one of the Rev’s podcasts this year, make it this one. This is why Erik Raser-Schramm is one of my favorite people of all-time.  Check it out. Biden Finalized Prisoner Swap While Withdrawing From Presidential Race.  A truly great accomplishment, quite an example of compartmentalization: For a president who pledged […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 25, 2024

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Do Rethugs Really Want To Go Down This Road?: Republican leaders said that Mr Biden’s decision to step aside confirmed their view that he was not in cognitive shape to serve as president – an issue that has dogged the Democrat since his disastrous debate last month. “If Joe Biden is not fit to run […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, July 12, 2024

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Karl Baker Deconstructs The Bond Bill.  It’s not pretty: Signed into law June 30 by Gov. John Carney, Delaware’s billion-dollar bond bill is sending tens of millions of dollars to downtown Wilmington through a litany of curious appropriations, some buried deep within the epilogue section of the omnibus spending legislation. There’s more than $18 million […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, July 9, 2024

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The media’s feeding frenzy for forcing Biden out of the race continues but seems to be slackening a bit because the public isn’t climbing on board. Like a pug on your leg, WaPo and all the political sites are still humping away at it, but the broader Democratic public doesn’t seem to see the big […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 20, 2024

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Caught the season-ending episode of ‘Hacks’ last night.  Man, they stuck the landing.  Can’t wait for Season Four.  If you haven’t been watching… Calling All Trolls: The election-year stink-bombing has gotten out of hand.  If your posts–and your posting privileges–disappear, just remember:  We are the Judge, Jury, And Executioner. ‘Thou Shalt Not Not Post The […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, June 7, 2024

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When A Former US Solicitor General in the Obama Administration Litigates In Delaware–you can bet that the case is of some import. It is.  He’s arguing on behalf of the State against Rethug attempts to make it more difficult to vote.  The case is The Honorable Anthony J. Albence and State of Delaware Department of […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, May 24, 2024

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Colleges To Pay Athletes.  As if they weren’t already: The NCAA and its five power conferences have approved a deal that paves the way for schools to pay athletes directly, a change that would crush any last notions of amateurism in major college sports. The agreement, which settles three antitrust cases and was voted on […]

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