Iowans For Tax Relief Are Not For All Iowans

I would like to thank Katy Brown and Patrick Riepe for today's post as Katy sent out an email suggesting that someone write about it, and Patrick added to it in his reply.
The Iowans for Tax Relief story link is at the bottom and if you get a chance visit their website as they are very clever in "showing" that they are for all Iowans. That is until you look at their "accomplishments", which include getting the top corporate tax rate down from 13% TO 8.98%, blocked debt financing and protected deductions in 2003, Phase-out of Social Security taxes in 2006, and they boast of eight consecutive years of tax cuts.
Those would all be laudable accomplishments if it wasn't for the fact that the taxes that were cut were for those most able to afford taxes, and the increases that needed to be made to offset the cuts fell on the rest of us.
Money talks and the politicians feed at the trough of corporate money to finance their expensive campaigns. Iowans for Tax Relief supported former Congressman Nussle in the last election against Chet Culver, who eventually won the Governorship of Iowa.
Their are many political action groups and they all pretend to be for the average person, but you need to see who they affiliate with to see their true purpose. The Iowans for Tax Relief have the Christian Alliance as their allies, so you can be sure that any agenda that they pursue will be veyr conservative, i.e. against programs that assist the less fortunate among us, and will promote good "Christian" values, "you know..values that are anything BUT Christ-like"!
I have listed the Officers and Board of Directors for Iowans for Tax Relief below:
Officers
Dean Kleckner
Honorary Chairman
David M. Stanley
Chairman
Robert H. Solt
Vice Chairman
Cloyd E. Robinson
Vice Chairman
Jeffrey R. Boeyink
President
Edward D. Failor, Jr.
Executive Vice President
Edward D. Failor, Sr.
Senior Counsel
Peter E. Voorhees
Finance Chairman
Christopher W. Nichols
Information Services Director
Daniel G. Steele
Creative Services Director
Jamie D. Hopkins
Development Director
Kathleen M. Koberg
Public Relations Director
Board of Directors
Jeffrey A. Bean
Anthony T. Berardi
Jeffrey R. Boeyink
David G. Dickey
Edward D. Failor, Jr.
Edward D. Failor, Sr.
John G. Giblin
Hugh S. Greig
Dean Kleckner
James M. Kurtenbach
Scott D. Newhard
Dr. Donald P. Racheter
Cloyd E. Robinson
Robert H. Solt
David M. Stanley
Jean Leu Stanley
Jane Svoboda
Ray A. Taylor
Peter E. Voorhees
R. Scott Weiser
Herbert A. Wilson
Now I looked up a couple of the top officers to see whose vision they are following and found out that their Honorary Chairman, Dean Kleckner is an Iowa farmer and former President of the Iowa Farm Bureau, Chairman David M. Stanley, is the founder of Iowans for Tax Relief, and was a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives, and tried to run for The Senate in 1968 and 1974, and lives in Muscatine, Iowa, Edward D. Failor Sr. and Jr., is just says they are Iowa Conservatives for Fairness and Tax Relief, and Peter Voorhees is Counsel for the group is a member of the Des Moines law firm of McKee, Voorhees & Sease, which gave the University of Iowa, College of Law a $100,000 gift in December of 2004.
I am sure the rest of this group consists of more like-minded, Conservative, fellows, who would definitely like to have lower rates on their considerable wealth.
Wouldn't it be nice to be in their league, then we would think it was fair to let the taxes fall on the lesser among us, so we can keep are largesse to ourselves and other "like'minded", "Good-Christians".
"Beware of wolves in sheeps clothing", as that is what this Iowans for Tax Relief is!

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