I have no power to exert any pressure on my representative and senator since I can’t put enough in their campaign chests or give a friend or relative a job. My little voice is lost in the hurricane of big spending lobbyists and paid speeches. I don’t have millions to fund those secretive foundations which put out misleading to totally false information to influence me and my elected officials. I don’t have money to put an assistant onto the staff of those officials.

Washington D.C. is now being run by billionaires and near billionaires who seem to have one thought in their mind — enrich themselves. Our president and his family are worth millions more than they were 130 days ago. He won’t release his 2015 tax returns so he definitely won’t release his 2016 returns showing his wealth increase because he won the election.

The tax reform proposals being sponsored by Trump and Ryan does more than tilt the scale toward the super rich — it drops the rest of us off the equation. The top 1% owns 90% of the country. Treasury Secretary Mnunchin says the current system needs to be changed so the rich can spend more money on creating jobs. Tax reduction has never spawned the predicted economic boost. Right and left economists agree on that so why put more money in wealthy pockets while increasing the deficit and national debt? They want to do away with estate tax to help the middle class. The tax doesn’t start until $5,500,000. I know of no middle class person that has an estate that big.

No, the tax cuts are not for us, they are for the billionaires who want to be richer. When it hits the fan they will have moved elsewhere!!