How Ken Buck Betrays Americans
Newspeak or Doubletalk? Ken Buck, Congressman from Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, crams lies, contradictions, and yes, betrayal into one attractive mailpiece.
The very audacity of Buck’s new election piece insults and demoralizes us, his constituents. We can’t dismiss this massive lie as “Bucktalk” or a “Buckflip,” though it is both of those. But the lies lie between the lines, in the contradictions created by unstated truths.
Buck’s transparent bragging over TCJA’s purported tax reductions irritates constituents like us who have listened to him blame our nation’s every hardship on deficit spending and the National Debt throughout his political career. It’s not the Colorado way to lie to your people, Ken. Maybe you should go back to Princeton. Because we know that the tax cuts in the bill Buck voted for are financed by borrowing, and that the Act will add nearly $488 billion to the 2018 deficit alone.
Adding injury to insult, here Buck reminds us that he’s for a balanced budget amendment. He doesn’t hazard a guess as to where those deficit-funded tax cuts he’s so proud of voting for will end up then! No doubt in the trash bin of history. Even without a balanced budget amendment, major economic stakeholders from Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman to off-the-record hedge fund managers are saying that tax increases are needed — on corporations and the wealthy. But Buck’s crew would rather pick Americans’ deferred-savings pockets — by reducing their Medicare and Social Security pay.
Here’s the last bit of Buck’s mailer. But here, too, the lies lie in the unstated facts. The Brookings institute calculates that households earning $25,000 or less get an average 2018 tax cut of just $60! But earners in the top .1% get something like $193,000!
People in the $30K-$40K earning range, and below, can’t really save money, so they end up very dependent on Social Security and Medicare — and Medicaid, too, if they have severe illnesses in the family. So the debt-financed tax cuts Uncle Ken is so proud of could ultimately end up costing them money and making them worse off in the end. That kind of tough love, though, is Buck’s true idea of virtue. Never forget that. Able-bodied men and women who don’t work hard enough don’t deserve squat. And needing help from the government just proves you’re not working hard enough. That’s Buck’s philosophy, and he’s proud of it!
We’re proud of our philosophy, too. WTF Colorado believes that freedom and dignity happen when people know the truth. We think when a public servant gives the people he represents anything less, he betrays them. And that’s how Ken Buck betrays Americans.
(We do approve of Buck’s color choices, however. Wonder if we did anything to influence it? Nah! Couldn’t be.)
