Letter to the Editor

April 9, 2009




In response to taxing the middle class some more... It seems that the middle class has been on the defense for the last 5 years. Now we have State Representative Alma (Wheeler) Smith trying to trim the middle even thinner now. Auto plants closing through the state. Small and large entities have been disappearing through out the state, yet Ms. Smith say, "The proposal would cost a household earning $50,000 a year more than $500 in additional annual income taxes before deductions." Why didn't Ms. Smith try to stop the retirement packages for state representative during June of 1997 like what happen to any other state workers who hired in after this date? Ask Ms. Smith what type of medical package her and her family gets when she retires. Yet teachers, civil service workers, auto workers, nurses and etc. will take a loss if this happens. Alma’s sister likes to ignore the law; maybe Alma has joined the bandwagon to destroy families in Michigan because no one is trying to challenge them? Do they think the public is dumb enough to support their ill will plans of actions? We are the taxpayers who voted them in but they do not have to worry about a retirement like the rest of the State of Michigan Workers, now they really show what how they feel about honest hard working Michigan Families. Do these two sisters know what can happen if the middle class collapses? Or maybe they do not care because they have already padded their pockets? Where is the money going now which the State of Michigan was giving aid to the colleges? Maybe it is time for the both of them to step down?



Charles Wright
PO Box 970725
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
734-717-4442