Solutions for national budget
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To the editor:
All we are hearing about now is the national budget and the lack of funds for the government, and every politician has a solution cut Medicare, raise taxes, and anything they can think of that will injure the American citizen.
I have a solution: Congress!
Let Congress live and abide by the same laws as every other citizen:
1. Work 30 years at the same job to draw retirement not draw retirement after one four-year term.
2. Pay income tax based upon their earnings, the same as every citizen.
3. If they want to travel to campaign, pay for their own transportation, not use tax dollars and fly free on government jets.
4. Pay into Social Security, the same as every citizen.
5. No more raises unless each and every American citizen votes them a raise at the polls.
6. Remember that each and every politician is hired help. They work for us, each and every citizen.
7. A wife of a deceased congressman can only draw a portion of his retirement if he has held that position for 30 years. Every American widow can only draw on her husband's retirement if he has worked at the same job for 30 years and is drawing retirement when he dies.
8. If Congress would pay back into the Social Security Fund all of the money they have borrowed to balance the budget Social Security would not have a deficit. Remember, the Social Security Act specifically says any money borrowed must be paid back at five percent interest. That interest figure was stated in 1935 when the Social Security Act was adopted. Maybe that figure should be adjusted to meet the current interest rate in the year when Congress borrowed the money. Then, in 1965, President Johnson included in the Social Security Act that the trust fund money was to be added to the general fund, thus creating a deficit in the Social Security fund.
That would take care of the deficit in the National Budget.
Our forefathers, when writing the Constitution, did not say Congress could give themselves raises. Congress added that into it and did not ask the citizens if it was OK.
Too many of the laws they are passing, or too many of the amendments they have added, have been at their discretion, not the citizens of the United States
I also feel that the state governing bodies should ready my letter and also apply it to their actions.
Any comments?
Katherine Clawson
Greenfield
To the editor:
All we are hearing about now is the national budget and the lack of funds for the government, and every politician has a solution cut Medicare, raise taxes, and anything they can think of that will injure the American citizen.
I have a solution: Congress!
Let Congress live and abide by the same laws as every other citizen:
1. Work 30 years at the same job to draw retirement not draw retirement after one four-year term.
2. Pay income tax based upon their earnings, the same as every citizen.
3. If they want to travel to campaign, pay for their own transportation, not use tax dollars and fly free on government jets.
4. Pay into Social Security, the same as every citizen.
5. No more raises unless each and every American citizen votes them a raise at the polls.
6. Remember that each and every politician is hired help. They work for us, each and every citizen.
7. A wife of a deceased congressman can only draw a portion of his retirement if he has held that position for 30 years. Every American widow can only draw on her husband's retirement if he has worked at the same job for 30 years and is drawing retirement when he dies.
8. If Congress would pay back into the Social Security Fund all of the money they have borrowed to balance the budget Social Security would not have a deficit. Remember, the Social Security Act specifically says any money borrowed must be paid back at five percent interest. That interest figure was stated in 1935 when the Social Security Act was adopted. Maybe that figure should be adjusted to meet the current interest rate in the year when Congress borrowed the money. Then, in 1965, President Johnson included in the Social Security Act that the trust fund money was to be added to the general fund, thus creating a deficit in the Social Security fund.
That would take care of the deficit in the National Budget.
Our forefathers, when writing the Constitution, did not say Congress could give themselves raises. Congress added that into it and did not ask the citizens if it was OK.
Too many of the laws they are passing, or too many of the amendments they have added, have been at their discretion, not the citizens of the United States
I also feel that the state governing bodies should ready my letter and also apply it to their actions.
Any comments?
Katherine Clawson
Greenfield
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