Hello, my name if Peter Wilbur, and I am a North Carolina tax payer. Like most of you, I'd guess, paying taxes is not on my list of favorite things to do. But, I understand the importance of good roads, competent fire fighters, recycling bins, and good schools. You see, I'm a public school teacher in Winston-Salem. In fact, I teach elementary music, a program that is facing severe budget cuts if the General Assembly Republicans have their way. On tax day, we must vow to never let their budget and tax plans pass. Huge giveaways for the wealthy are unconscionable when school teachers are paid 41st in the nation, and PE and arts programs are on the chopping block. They'll sell this as a middle class tax break, but that is a lie.
One state bill that should become law is SB 587, also known as the T.R.U.M.P Act. That just happens to stand for tax returns uniformly made public, and it would mandate that a candidate for President in North Carolina make three years of IRS returns public before they appear on the ballot here.
Because the man in Washington, he who shall not be named, is hiding something. By breaching forty years of convention from candidates of both parties, he signals that he's hiding something. What is it? Embarrassing losses, dubious business ventures? He's hiding something. Huge loans from and complex entanglements with Russian operatives? He's hiding something. Here are my tax returns, Mr. President. Where are yours? Honest and upright people, those who would lead us, don't need to keep secrets. Say it with me, he's hiding something.
Despite his supposed love of the masses, the Grabber in Chief loves cutting taxes on the rich. His disastrous health care plan would have given thousands in tax breaks to the super wealthy, who don't need them, while raising costs and slashing benefits mostly for the old, poor, and for rural citizens. A tax cut for the rich? Never has our nation seen such drastic and galling inequality. What we need to do is tax the rich to pay for excellent public education, top-notch health care, and much more. Imagine if we lived in a world where those who have profited the most actually gave back to and cared about the communities in which they lived, and the workers and consumers from whom they have derived their profits?
We know why Ivanka's Daddy wants to cut corporate and personal taxes. He's in it for himself! He also has to appease the corporate donor class, made up of polluting industrialists, and finance rip-off artists, much like his buddies Rex Tillerson, Steve Mnuchin, and Scott Pruitt.
The same goes for Berger, Moore, and the rest of the gerrymandered NC GOP. Five minutes on Google will take you right to the source of much of their campaign funding: the Koch brothers and other outside interests. These corporate masters decided long ago to take over the country one state house at a time, and North Carolina is their poster child. And their puppets in the GOP must deliver their extreme agenda. For now, all we can do is call and protest. But make no mistake: I will work to make sure they are voted out of office in November of 2018. At the same time, I will work to replace my reprehensible and bigoted Congresswoman, Virginia Foxx, out of office, just as we should do with the rest of our Republican climate-change denying Congressional delegation. Taking over the House of Representatives would result in instant impeachment of the Orange One. Then we might finally get to see those returns. Remember: he's hiding something.
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