Excerpts from a letter to my Congressman.
Dear Rep. Culberson,
I am writing to you, asking you to commit to supporting spending on the social safety net programs in our country.
My wife and I both have great jobs, she as an XXX and me as a public school teacher. We have a great cash flow and hope buy a home and start a family in coming years. That said, please consider raising taxes on families like mine. Moving from X percent to X+1 percent wouldn’t make us happy, but we’d understand the need to help support vital programs to help the young, poor and elderly.
As a public school teacher, I can see how frayed this safety net already is. Some of my students get their only meals at school. They lack access to health care. They attend a school that, while filled with passionate teachers, is old and crumbling.
Cutting spending and reducing debt is a noble goal, but it is far less noble than making sure the least among us have access to basic rights. Please reconsider your position on balancing the budget and the debt ceiling. Increasing revenues must be part of the deal because cuts alone will fall on those who can least afford it.
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