Editor, Times-Union: I follow C-SPAN daily and have for sometime. I hear a lot about the TEA party. As I see it they want to slow down the spending in this country that has gotten us into the mess we are in. Everyone agrees we spend more than we make and that it will have to stop or sooner or later nobody is going to lend us anymore money.
This TEA party as I see it, thinks we the people pay enough tax now and they don't want to pay more.
I have listened to several CEO'S from the largest companies tell congress we need to lower the corporate tax rate and do away with all the loop holes that now exists in the system.
I have heard many economists speak about how the current tax system will never get us out of debt. Most of the greatest money minds believe we need to go to a value added tax. They go on to say we should do away with income tax altogether and rely on the VAT to pay our bills.
I'm not sure what the answer is but why is the TEA party getting all this flak for stirring up the pot and wanting real change.
Yesterday on C-SPAN there were Washington insider reporters that said the TEA party did influence the bills and tightened the purse strings of this country.
Anybody that thinks we should just raise the debt ceiling without any real change in spending makes me think of a doctor that puts more blood into a person and doesn't worry about trying to stop their bleeding. When the nurse says, Dr... what about his bleeding? The Dr replies... we'll just put more in later. Oh! says the nurse... and the blood bank wants their blood back with interest doctor. Not to worry nurse we'll just take it from someone else.
We need real change in the way we think and do business. If it takes our citizens that speak out to do it, no matter what they call themselves. I think we should encourage them, not tell them to keep quite and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
