By Bob Knutson
Once again our leading liberal presented us with a column of hyperbole, distortion and misleading factoids that would be humorous if the subject matter was not so serious.
In the Aug. 11 edition of “Grant”s Rants,” he refers to taxpayer-funded oil field security without telling us where that is taking place. One would not like to contemplate what the pump price of gasoline would be without the subsidies he mentions. Of course the oil industry does not pay income taxes. Industries or corporations do not. They do pay billions of dollars in other taxes, though. Also, the thousands of people they employ, however, do pay plenty of income taxes.
A large part of the fraud that precipitated the current economic mess was perpetrated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two agencies that President Bush attempted to bring under control. His efforts, unhappily, were blocked by two powerful democrats, Mr. Dodd and Mr. Frank. Those two agencies, incidentally, have been exempt from the financial regulation law touted by Mr. Grant. It is too bad the law had to be so heavily modified to obtain the votes of a handful of RINO senators.
His comments on the media are too far from factual to merit rebuttal. Once again we have the complaint about tax cuts for the 2 percent that are already wealthy and one might add, are already paying 40 percent of all the income tax revenue collected by the IRS. A final point, if we are to discuss activist judges, let”s not forget the liberal judge who substituted his own opinion of 5.5 million California voters or the one who found her opinion superior to that of the elected representatives of Arizona.
Bob Knutson
Kelseyville
