Dear Representative Boehlert,

Regarding the tax cut package that was recently passed, I agree the economy needs a "jumpstart", but I question the methods.

1st, Bush's 1st trillion dollar tax cut to the rich, did Not "jumpstart the economy! What makes you think doing the same thing twice, the same way, will have a different result????!!
2nd, the "hocus-pocus" numbers used are Very deceptive, but even the "average Joe" knows what's going on, when he's getting screwed. When you use words like "average family" and refer to taxation, "average can be figured in at least 3 ways, including "mean", and "median", which are totally different things. If you consider "average", by only total amount of tax dollars paid, without considering the "average" of what the vast majority earns and pays, that is very deceiving. A few billionairres can skew numbers drastically.
3rd, your claim that, "A significant component of the tax cut package is directed to increasing the child tax credit from $600. to $1000. and accelerating marriage penalty relief, which will put more money in the pockets of working families.", neglects to say that last-minute wrangling excludes millions of "working families" from the tax credit:
The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, along with Citizens for Tax Justice found, "6.5 million minimum-wage families, with nearly 12 million children, would not receive the $400-per-child increase in the child tax credit contained in the new law."
Why would you exclude those families who need it most???!!!
4th, the reduction on dividends tax will do little to help the vast majority of stock holders. As with the Farm Bill, 95% of these reductions will go to help the top 5% of investors.
5th, do you really believe that we are so stupid, that we don't see the increase in our costs of living and other taxes and fees, when you give away billions to the rich??!? Don't you think we see the increases in state sales tax, dog license fees, other gov't. fees and taxes, like our school and town taxes increasing, by more than the "average person" is getting out of this tax cut for the rich???!?
6th, every year, you guys give your favorite "corporate buddies" over $150 billion in "corporate welfare", and you give these tax dollars to the biggest corporations, who then use the money they are saving in research and development, to devour the competition.

Do you really believe we are so stupid not to see these things???!? I addressed you as "Representative". The problem is, you spend so much time with your rich corporate buddies, and they're the only ones who seem to get your attention, that you've forgotten who the average American really is, and how we live. The vast majority of you, in gov't. have forsaken our founding fathers hopes and dreams, and in doing so, you have abandoned our Constitution. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. As a "Representative", you should ask yourself, who you truely "represent"?
Sincerely,

Robert E. Orlando
Cooperstown, NY 13326