Consequences of candidates' policies

To the Editor,

It is truly remarkable to my senior citizen-self how little the body politic evaluates candidates for high elective office. Not only do voters fail to evaluate the in-depth consequences of candidates' proposed policies, but also the impact those same theoretical policies have had where they have been actually implemented in other jurisdictions.

Specifically, I call the voters' attention to Democrat Wolfe's call for an extraction tax on the gas fracking, but more critically to a call for higher personal income taxes on the so-called "middle class." In true liberal tradition, the middle class is never defined, but an imaginary family making between $60,000 and $75,000 per year to support a family will do. What does Wolfe intend to do with this windfall? Subsidize those who don't work or more likely those "limousine liberals" such as himself who reincorporate in Delaware to avoid Pennsylvania taxes. At the federal level, the same tax phenomenon occurs when domestic corporations move out of the country and merge with a foreign corporation to avoid U.S. corporation income taxes.

What is going to be done with these "soak the semi-poor" taxes? Property tax relief? Oh, you mean those with the largest houses and commercial property can cast the tax burden upon the working folks who need to pay more while living in their humble but less-taxed cottages.

Eight years ago, I decided to retire in Pennsylvania and leave an overtaxed, overweening nanny state governed by a bespectacled, bearded billionaire who financed his own $50 million campaigns. Another rich man who wanted to be king. And, as Bruce Springsteen sang, "A king ain't satisfied till he rules everything."

Voters of Pennsylvania, be very wary of a candidate who runs on a platform that defies common sense about taxes, wants to spend everyone's money but his own and pretends to have your best interests at heart as he moves his businesses to another state. Average working people need more wages and spendable income, not increased income tax burdens.

Sincerely,

Robert J. Bukowczyk

Lehighton