President Bush has asked for a $726 billion tax cut. The House of Representatives has voted for a $550 billion tax cut. Sen. Snowe has proposed a $350 billion tax cut. Sen. Ken Blais, District 20, supports the president’s tax cut.
The fallacy of the proposed tax cut is that jobs will be created; good paying jobs some say.
Maine’s economy has always been based on industrial and manufacturing, blue collar jobs. Let’s be realistic. Those jobs are not coming back to Maine.
Shoe and textiles are gone. The paper industry is in trouble and will be gone some day. Farming is dying in Maine. Logging is not a healthy business.
So, a question: what kind of “good paying” jobs will be created in Maine with these tax cuts?
I support Sen. Snowe’s bill if a tax cut will be beneficial. As a Republican, I voted for President Eisenhower in 1952 and have been an Eisenhower Republican ever since.
He said during his election campaign in 1952 “it makes no difference what letter is after your name on a voter registration list. What matters is that your vote is what you believe in.” That’s not an exact quote, but I hope the U.S. senators do exactly that when they cast their votes for tax cuts.
Roland Carville, Lisbon
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