Why support Republicans?
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To the editor:
I know that I am in the minority in Highland County. But for the life of me I cannot understand why the residents of the county are so supportive of
conservatives and national Republicans. Highland County and Ohio have high unemployment, yet the voters seem to be supporting the election of John
Kasich (R) over Ted Strickland (D) for governor and Rob Portman ® for U.S. Senator over Lee Fisher (D). Any regular person who does not understand that
Americans are in a class war is out of touch with our economic reality.
Rich and powerful elites that are running and ruining our country have the upper hand. Capitalism and the profit motive are fine. But things have gotten completely out of control. Insane corporate compensation saps an inordinate amount of wealth from society. These corporate masters do not create wealth,
they legally steal it from the system. This is reflected in this terrible statistical reality.
The share of the nation's income going to wages and salaries, according to the Commerce Department, has shrunk to 51.8 percent, the lowest share since 1929. These are some other other examples of class warfare. Increasing income disparity in the US puts us worse than or on a par with much of Latin America. Someone making $100 million per year pays a tax rate just two points higher than someone making $175,000 per year. CEOs who lay off workers get paid more. Congressional Republicans have fought against extending unemployment benefits for working people but for tax breaks for the very wealthy.
The pattern that appears is working people struggling more and more, wealthy people having more and more, and Republican politicians and Wall Street
allied to get more and more from working people and give more and more to wealthy ones. And they like to say that anyone, including Democrats and
progressives, asking for a living wage, or to close a tax loophole for billionaires, is engaging in class warfare. What they really mean is, that
opposes their own war on working people. Democrats have not always done their best for middle and working class people, but at least they are not
owned completely by corporate America as are national Republicans.
Sincerely,
John P. Hiestand
Hillsboro
To the editor:
I know that I am in the minority in Highland County. But for the life of me I cannot understand why the residents of the county are so supportive of conservatives and national Republicans. Highland County and Ohio have high unemployment, yet the voters seem to be supporting the election of John Kasich (R) over Ted Strickland (D) for governor and Rob Portman ® for U.S. Senator over Lee Fisher (D). Any regular person who does not understand that Americans are in a class war is out of touch with our economic reality.
Rich and powerful elites that are running and ruining our country have the upper hand. Capitalism and the profit motive are fine. But things have gotten completely out of control. Insane corporate compensation saps an inordinate amount of wealth from society. These corporate masters do not create wealth, they legally steal it from the system. This is reflected in this terrible statistical reality.
The share of the nation's income going to wages and salaries, according to the Commerce Department, has shrunk to 51.8 percent, the lowest share since 1929. These are some other other examples of class warfare. Increasing income disparity in the US puts us worse than or on a par with much of Latin America. Someone making $100 million per year pays a tax rate just two points higher than someone making $175,000 per year. CEOs who lay off workers get paid more. Congressional Republicans have fought against extending unemployment benefits for working people but for tax breaks for the very wealthy.
The pattern that appears is working people struggling more and more, wealthy people having more and more, and Republican politicians and Wall Street allied to get more and more from working people and give more and more to wealthy ones. And they like to say that anyone, including Democrats and progressives, asking for a living wage, or to close a tax loophole for billionaires, is engaging in class warfare. What they really mean is, that opposes their own war on working people. Democrats have not always done their best for middle and working class people, but at least they are not owned completely by corporate America as are national Republicans.
Sincerely,
John P. Hiestand
Hillsboro