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Zorro

(15,751 posts) Wed Apr 22, 2015, 11:47 PM Apr 2015

Boehner Opens Another Heap Of Letters From Constituents Asking To Give Corporations More Tax Breaks

WASHINGTON—Pouring out an overflowing sack of mail onto his desk, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reportedly hunkered down Wednesday for yet another long night of opening letters from constituents asking him to give large corporations more tax breaks. “I’ve received a whole stack of letters asking me to grant Fortune 500 companies hundreds of millions of dollars in tax write-offs, and another 10 or 15 more urging me to increase corporate subsidies to offset their tax burden—and I still have dozens of letters to go through,” said Boehner, glancing down at a pile of handwritten notes from a retired veteran in Fairfield, a single mom in Troy, and an entire fifth-grade class in Dayton, all pleading for the congressman to slash taxes on the oil and gas industry. “When the people of Ohio’s eighth district want their voices heard, it’s my duty to listen. And of all the issues facing our country today, the ones they care most about are fewer taxes for multinational conglomerates and drastic reductions in the ones that remain.” Boehner then reportedly hung up a touching crayon drawing he’d received from a 6-year-old in Greenville depicting a Wall Street CEO on a brand-new yacht.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/boehner-opens-another-heap-of-letters-from-constit,38461/

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Boehner Opens Another Heap Of Letters From Constituents Asking To Give Corporations More Tax Breaks (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2015 OP

The best hung nose in Congress DJ13 Apr 2015 #1

This is actually typical from Boehner and others of his ilk. Just listen to what they want to hear. bulloney Apr 2015 #3

I want a pony, and elleng Apr 2015 #2

I would not be surprised if this is actually true Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2015 #4

Were each written ... left-of-center2012 Apr 2015 #5

the only reason many corps grow so huge is because of the corporate subsidies. Sunlei Apr 2015 #6

DJ13

(23,671 posts)

1. The best hung nose in Congress

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Wed Apr 22, 2015, 11:53 PM

Apr 2015

bulloney

(4,113 posts)

3. This is actually typical from Boehner and others of his ilk. Just listen to what they want to hear.

Reply to DJ13 (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 06:20 AM

Apr 2015

It's another example of Onion satire being closer to reality than you think.

Around here, we've had congressmen like Mike Oxley, Jim Jordan and Bob Latta who only attend RW organization meetings when they're back in their districts. Then, they return to Washington and tell the world that this is what his constituents are telling him.

I don't find it that hard to believe that a class of grade school students would write letters to their congressmen, asking about lowering taxes for corporations. When I was in grade school, we had a RW looney-tunes teacher who was an acolyte of Joe McCarthy who preached about the communists coming to get us about every week. If a kid has a teacher with a RW mindset, I can see that teacher telling the students to write such letters.