November 12, 2012
Congressman Tim Griffin, c/o Little Rock Office, 1501 N. University, Suite 150, Little Rock, AR 72207
Dear Congressman Griffin,
I have met you several times and I have always enjoyed visiting with you. I got to hear you speak at a town meeting at Shannon Hills about a year ago and I must say that you did a great job showing how our country is heading to Greece if we do not tackle entitlement reform in a serious way or we will not control our spending. The issue of runaway spending is one of the issues that I wanted to talk to you about today.
We got to stand up to President Obama on two issues this week. On the fiscal cliff we need to tell him four things that I got from Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute:
- They could point out that higher marginal tax rates discourage productive behavior.
- They could point out that increased double taxation of saving and investment will hurt workers by reducing capital formation.
- They could point out that a larger tax burden will encourage a bigger burden of government spending.
- They could point out that revenues almost surely be less than what is projected because of the Laffer Curve.
I have written a lot on the blog in the last year about the debt ceiling argument. It has been one of the top issues I have dedicated my time to and as result of coming up with interesting issues like that I have experienced over 300,000 hits in the last 12 months on my blog.
Basically on my blog I have spent most of my time on budget issues and the pro-life issues but I also deal with popular culture and sports.
I have written lots of your Tea Party friends in Congress too about this issue of the debt ceiling issue, andI have written a series of letters to the Speaker of the House John Boehner. Here is how I start out in some of those letters:
I know that you will have to meet with newly re-elected President Obama soon and he will probably be anxious for you to raise taxes and federal spending, but he will want you to leave runaway entitlement programs alone. When that happens then you have one thing you can hold over his head and that is the debt ceiling.
You must stand up to him and tell him that you can not raise it. In December of 2012 or January of 2013 at the latest we will be shutting down the government if we don’t increase the debt limit according to the LA Times. You got to listen to the Tea Party heroes like Rep. Todd Rokita, Ben Quayle (R-AZ), Jeff Landry (R, LA-03), Raúl R. Labrador , Tim Huelskamp, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), , Brooks, Mo (AL – 5), Buerkle, Ann Marie (NY – 25),Chabot, Steven (OH – 1),Duncan, Jeff (SC – 3), Fleischmann, Chuck (TN – 3) ,Gowdy, Trey (SC – 4) ,Griffith, H. Morgan (VA – 9) , Harris, Andy (MD – 1) ,Huizenga, Bill (MI – 2) , Mulvaney, Mick (SC – 5) , Pompeo, Mike (KS – 4) , Ribble, Reid (WI – 8), Rigell, E. Scott (VA – 2) , Ross, Dennis (FL – 12) ,Schweikert, David (AZ – 5), Scott, Austin (GA – 8) , Scott, Tim (SC – 1) , Southerland, Steve (FL – 2) , Stutzman, Marlin (IN – 3) , Walberg, Timothy (MI – 7) , Walsh, Joe (IL – 8),and Woodall, Rob (GA – 7) .
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Mr. Griffin, I have a lot of respect for you because of your conservative views and your defense of the unborn. Now, will you join that group of 66 brave Republicans that voted against the debt ceiling and oppose it this time around? We must require the passing of the Balanced Budget Amendment before we okay an increase the debt ceiling!!! If not then we will continue to have our credit level downgraded. Last time you voted for the debt ceiling increase because you said if we did not do it then our credit level would be downgraded but three days later our credit level was downgraded anyway.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Everette Hatcher, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002, cell ph 501-920-5733, lowcostsqueegees@yahoo.com, www.thedailyhatch.org
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