In print: Kratovil’s misleading ad returns to the airwaves

Yesterday my letter happened to make it into the Daily Times. Glad they held it until Sunday.

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Well, it looks like Rep. Frank Kratovil is up to his old tricks again. Fresh off putting out a commercial that was termed “misleading” by factcheck.org, he puts out another one making the same claim — that Andy Harris wants a 23 percent sales tax increase.

But what Kratovil and his Washington insider friends cannily leave out is that working families would see their take-home pay dramatically increase, thanks to the return of money now confiscated by federal backup withholding. Frame the question instead as one of wanting a 20 to 30 percent raise, and people would be lined up around the block to shout “where do I sign up?”

I’m wondering if life inside the beltway has changed Kratovil to be that much less trustworthy, or whether he’s just a pawn in a desperate attempt by the party in power and their associated special interests to stay in control.

If Kratovil, Pelosi and their big-government friends are this willing to use deceit and parsing of terms in order to stay in office, it leads me to wonder what they’re so afraid of. Sending Harris to Congress would be a good, conservative reflection of our 1st District — a district which soundly rejected the policies of President Barack Obama even before he was put into office.

And since when is having more control over your own money a bad thing?

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It’s worth seeing the letter online because there’s some interesting reactions to it so far. I put in my two cents last evening.

Author: Michael

It's me from my laptop computer.

One thought on “In print: Kratovil’s misleading ad returns to the airwaves”

  1. Michael, Michael, Michael,

    Of course it is bad to keep your own money.

    You may not use it to buy an overpriced car from a government-owned, union-backed company.

    You may not use it to buy insurance you may not need.

    You may spend it on God. Or Guns. Or Fear.

    You may buy the latest book from Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity or Ann Coulter, instead of organic vegetables from the White House garden.

    You may spend it in Delaware or Pennsylvania instead of Maryland (and avoid 6% sales tax on clothes).

    Lord only knows how you might spend — or save — your money if you kept it.

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