To my Michigan Representatives

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Friday December 07, 2012 · 8:38 AM PST

2012/12/07 · 08:38

To the "representatives" who voted for "right to work" yesterday:

How you’ve voted is saying to me that you want me to lose my job, my home and my future security. But I pay taxes…and taxes pay for your job. How is it possible that so many people can be hurt by the legislation you passed and you still have a job—which we’re all paying for? I have an idea…Since I disagree with you and your ideology and I didn’t vote for you, why can’t I refuse to pay the taxes that pay your salary? That way I can still “benefit” from your “services” but not pay for them, right?

Our state budget is in shambles but your actions are saying that if we put the entire burden on the middle class, somehow, magically, our budget woes will cease. There’s something missing in your logic: pay people less; they pay fewer taxes. People lose their jobs; they pay fewer taxes. People stop buying; profits go down, sales go down, businesses will pay fewer taxes (eventually, without a strong middle class, they’ll go out of business). How does this propel the economy forward when the counter-effect is so much greater? We need a stronger tax base to keep this state well-oiled and running. We need those taxes to pay for our representatives. But you want to cut the tax base? And still have a job? Well, in economics as in so many things in life, what comes around goes around.

Sung to the tune of America the Beautiful

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Tuesday May 15, 2012 · 7:32 AM PDT

2012/05/15 · 07:32

America, the Corporate, the fortresses you built
were fortified by those who died while you are free of guilt
A-mer-i-ca the Cor-por-ate, your billions are intact
You survived our former pride and live just fine with that.

America the Corporate the mountains you have razed
The once blue skies pollution-ized, with cancer giving rays
A-mer-i-ca the Cor-por-ate, those children at your feet
Are not in prayer, but prostrate there—they have no food to eat.

America the Corporate you’ve taken and we gave
You fed your wealth with fervor-ed stealth as we just looked away.
Cor-por-i-ca, Cor-por-i-ca we shed our blood in pain
You pulverized, we sympathized
And yet we died in vain.

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