| Hello John, There is no time to lose. As I asked in a previous newsletter: Do families making $300,000 a year need a $7,500 taxpayer handout to buy an $80,000 electric car? Some in Washington think so, and they’re willing to raise taxes to pay for it. And it’s not the usual suspects. It is House Republicans who are considering a plan to raise taxes on small business owners and job creators under the guise of “raising taxes on the rich.” You read that right. House Republicans are considering raising tax rates. The worst part? Those same Republicans are looking to keep the “green” energy taxpayer giveaways that are part of Joe Biden’s Green New Deal scam — a bill every Republican voted against! When Republicans start sounding more like Bernie Sanders than Ronald Reagan, you know there’s a problem. It is a stunning turn of events that could blow up the entire reconciliation process. Here’s the bottom line: If that happens, the Trump tax cuts might not be renewed and taxes for the average American family would go up $1,500. Brent Gardner, my colleague and AFP’s chief government affairs officer, issued the following statement: “Raising taxes on any American should be completely off the table. Doing it to protect Green New Scam slush funds is a gut punch to Americans who overwhelmingly and unequivocally oppose raising taxes. This is not what Americans voted for last November.” Brent is spot on. There are many reasons why raising tax rates is a bad idea, and we have covered a lot of them in previous newsletters. Here are just five: - Higher taxes are a bailout of the big-spending politicians who created our budget mess.
- The politicians promise they’ll only raise taxes on the rich, but we all know the middle class will end up footing the bill.
- The cause of our debt and deficit problem is government overspending, not a lack of tax revenue.
- Higher taxes divert money from the productive sector to big-spending politicians, which hurts the economy.
- These new taxes would apply to mom-and-pop businesses — the backbone of our economy.
Congress is literally considering these tax hikes as you read this, so there is no time to lose. Contact your elected officials and tell them to stop acting like Bernie Sanders Democrats and start acting like Reagan Republicans. | 
