BY MIKE CETERA
I know we're in the middle of a perpetual campaign, but it's a bit early to be comparing Bill Foster's voting record to other members of his party.
That's like saying we know how good a ball player Billy Hatcher is because of his batting average in the World Series. (He owns the MLB record for batting average in a four-game series; Hatcher batted .750. Over his career, he was a .264 hitter). Sorry, gratuitous reference. I've got baseball fever.
Still, the analogy holds. We can't possibly know how Bill Foster is going to vote based on two weeks worth of data.
Yes, he voted with the Democrats 94.7 percent of the time. But -- if I'm doing the math correctly -- he's participated in 19 votes.
Let's wait a bit before we label him a "classic tax-and-spend liberal," as the National Republican Congressional Committee labeled him. And when you do bring that charge, let's see some evidence.
Mike, the proof is in the pudding... Foster is a joke, you know it, I know it, and the whole of the 14th district knows it. Nice try with the give the man a chance bit.. he voted against the middle class and raised their taxes already. Wasn't his tag line during his campaign saying that he would lower middle class taxes? Yes it was. Yet he voted to raise them instead. Mike, you show yourself to be a fool. We ain't buying it.
Steve Klaske
Aurora, Illinois
CETERA REPLIES:
Steve, I must be missing something. Can you point me to the bill in which Foster "voted against the middle class and raised their taxes already?"
According to the dictionary, the definition of liberalism is: a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market, and the gold standard.
The world calls this economic thinking neo-liberalism, and the Republicans have embraced what Bill Clinton started.
The RNC sent out mailers with misinformation about taxes and their source was the Heritage Foundation, which is kind of like the MoveOn.org of the Republican Party. I think the RNC nailed Oberweis' coffin shut in the special election, not him. Go to bushtax.com, his tax cuts raised your property and state taxes big time. And when the Oberweis Mailer said that it would raise your taxes over $2700 - that simply isn’t true. I can write off the thousands I tithe to church, it doesn’t mean it will be my actual refund. Bush's corporate tax was given because the WTO said it was illegal and unfair to other countries they way things were before. Bush said it was to keep manufacturing jobs here. Never happened.
The "Death Tax" is the best. Even Oberweis doesn’t make enough to fall into the category of those who pay that tax. You have to be a Wal-Mart Walton, Koch Oil, or the Mars candy family. Only one fourth of ONE PERCENT of estates is required to pay it, yet the Republicans are trying to tell me my pathetic will is in danger. That's a lie.
Bush said recently, "To much is given, much is expected, not knowing he cherry picked that out of Luke 12. Luke 12 is the Parable of the Rich Fool, which SPECIFICALLY denounces the death tax; the whole Bible denounces greed and money.
It is very important I give the direct link to prove my claims:
http://bushtax.com/original_the_bush_tax_how_much_is_it_costing_you
Make sure to scroll down and click on the links below the original article:
The Return of the Bush Tax
Then also the Bush Tax parts 1-5. Part II: Property Taxes, Part III, Who's Paying Now?, Part IV, How Much Will We Pay?, and Part V: Social Security and our Foreign Debt.
When Bush spends all his time cutting Paris Hilton's taxes and NOT finding bin Laden, who do you think picks up the tab for Paris' free lunch Steve - YOU DO!
Pure Neo-liberalism. http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/econ101/neoliberalDefined.html
Even free trade champions are screaming from the rooftops of what happens when you have a corrupt government sneaking their hands in the cookie jar. If we don’t take care of this now – we will end up just like Argentina:
http://www.freetrade.org/node/328
Then what will we do? It will be too late to do anything!
Evidence of tax and spend?
Well he just put in a request for whopping $55 in pork for his district, encompassing just about everyting and everyone from a trolley in Aurora to a parking deck in St. Charles. He thinks the federal government should be paying for all of that. Well I wouldn't complain if that's what he ran on, but he ran on the promise that he would stop out of control spending in Washington. Is this how he plans on doing it?