Roskam's call for tax code reform rings false

Reading any commentary by my Congressman Peter Roskam is like trying to decipher the tip of an Iceberg. There is so much below the surface you need to be highly informed to understand his political agenda. His recent Glen Ellyn area op-ed “It’s time to take a hard look at the tax code” is a case in point. He begins by stating our “tax dollars are to be respected and spent wisely”. Yet, Roskam has voted for and never wavered in spending his share since 2007 of the $3 Trillion squandered on our criminal and failed Iraq and Afghanistan wars. That is because Roskam is beholding to the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex which gets rich and powerful from wasteful war spending. He’s out front in threatening Iran for the same reason.  

Then he begins his history of America’s economic malaise with President Obama’s January 20, 2009, inauguration, totally erasing how President Bush brought America to the brink of economic collapse, hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs monthly before President Obama righted the sinking American Titanic. Nor does Roskam admit he has opposed, in furtherance of the Tea Party agenda in the House, every single administration jobs creation effort.  Roskam’s only plan to grow jobs, more tax cuts for the greedy rich, was debunked under the President who invented it, Ronald Reagan.  

What is truly hilarious however, is his feigned concern over simplifying our enormously complex tax code. Roskam and his fellow members of the 2% of America’s wealthy are the primary beneficiaries of those 15,000 amendments to the tax codes since 1988. It allows them to enjoy the largest redistribution of wealth from the other 98% in our nation’s history. They allow near billionaires like Roskam’s 2012 choice for president Mitt Romney to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary. That is unconscionable and ruinous to American’s middle class. The greedy rich and the haters of doing anything to help America’s needy love Roskam’s tip of the iceberg style. And those many less well-off hoodwinked by his faux populous rhetoric don’t know duped they really are.