“If it’s good enough for God” – Forbes Rocks!

I could complain about how rarely a politician’s fundraising email says anything substantive – you know the drill: “Scary bad guys are after me / no one else is half as great as I am / give me money or the bad guys will destroy us all…” In Virginia, Sen. Cuccinelli has been one of the few to consistently break that mold and offer his readers something that makes the email worth opening.

But instead of complaining, I think I’ll just commend Congressman Forbes for his enewsletter today:

Friends –

I read a bumper sticker last week as I drove home to Chesapeake from working in Washington . It said: “If 10% is good enough for God, it’s good enough for government.”

How true, I thought.

The bumper sticker was yet another reminder of what has been on the forefront of my mind for months: American families and businesses are drowning under the burden of too many taxes. As I drove, I thought about the life of an average working mom and how her every move was being taxed. Consider her day:

7:04am – Turn on the bathroom light; taxed for electricity
7:07am – Take a shower; taxed for water
7:29am – Pack lunches for the kids; taxed for groceries
7:46am – Clean windshield off; taxed for personal property on car
7:59am – Fill up tank of gas and pick up cup of coffee; paid federal state and local gas tax and sales tax on coffee
8:14am – Sitting in traffic congestion; taxed for roads
8:41am – Arrive at work; taxed on income
12:07pm – Meet AC repair man on lunch break; Taxed on repair bill, taxed on electricity to cool the house
12:35pm – Check in with mother recovering from surgery; Taxed on phone usage
5:25pm – Stop at local repair shop for oil change; Taxed on parts and labor
5:32pm – Arrive home from work, checks mail to find real estate assessment; taxed on modest home
5:34pm – Greeted by dog at door; taxed for dog license
5:41pm – Prepare fresh fish husband caught on Sunday; Taxed on electricity to heat oven and husband’s license to catch the fish
6:51pm – Helps son with science fair experiment; Taxed on supplies
7:57pm – Logs on to the Internet to read local news; Taxed on Internet service
8:03pm – Finds a gift on web for cousin’s birthday and purchases it; taxed on purchase
8:24pm – Throws dirty laundry in washer; Taxed on electricity and water
9:14pm – Cracks open book, reads a couple of pages and falls asleep… taxed on purchase of book and mattress.

I wonder how often the average American realizes they pay 28% of their income in taxes. As I write this email, it is now 5pm. How many of us have gone through our day today and not realized all the taxes we paid?

Yet more is coming. In the last year our nation spent an unprecedented amount in bailouts and stimulus packages. And, as Washington has spent, they’ve recklessly heaped crushing debt on our children and grandchildren. Yet even as they carelessly burdened our children with this spending, a tax tsunami is coming and it is coming soon.

Consider this op-ed, entitled “We’ll Need to Raise Taxes Soon” in this week’s Wall Street Journal. In it, Roger Altman, a former Clinton administration official, writes, “The problem is the deficit’s sheer size, which goes way beyond potential savings from cuts in discretionary spending or defense…In short we’ll have to raise taxes.”

Mr. Altman is essentially explaining what the American people already know: Washington has – in an uncontrolled, gluttonous spending spree – racked up massive debt on the national credit card. And, now, Washington is preparing to turn to the American people to empty their pockets to pay for that record spending.

This is wrong. Especially around Independence Day, I am reminded that our founding fathers built this nation by throwing off the yoke of freedom-crushing taxation.

I am one of only 17 Members of Congress who voted against every single bailout and stimulus package that came before Congress both under the Bush and the Obama Administrations.

I need your help to continue to be that voice in Washington .

We also need a strong, unified voice to say ‘no’ to the tax hikes in Washington . I am concerned, though, that Americans are not getting up-to-date information on what is going on in Washington . Truly, the spending and tax increases are happening so quickly, even Members of Congress are having trouble keeping up with what they are being asked to vote on. For instance, just last week, a 300-plus page amendment was added to the 1,500-page national energy tax at 3:09 AM the morning of the vote.

Then, after all this amazingly substantive content, Mr. Forbes invites you to join his email list and donate to his campaign.

I think such an effort should be rewarded. How about you?

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