Dear Senator Hutchison,

I read your response to my urging your action on passing the stimulus bill.  These are some things I don't understand in your response:

You said, "First, I believe the most effective way to stimulate the economy is to leave more money in taxpayers’ pockets. Instead of providing significant tax cuts, the vast majority of the Stimulus bill focused on dramatically expanding government programs" 

With hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs every single month, sometimes in as little as two weeks, how can a tax cut help the economy?  Tax cuts only work for people who have incomes.  The more people who are unemployed, the fewer have incomes.  The fewer people with incomes, the fewer people receiving tax cuts.  And it follows that with fewer taxes being paid, government employees are being laid off, adding to that big pool of Americans who will not benefit from tax cuts. 

For tax cuts to work, you have to have a job.

The problem here, Ms. Hutchison, is unemployment.  And the way you solve an unemployment problem is to hire people to do jobs.  And in order to do that, the government has to fund projects, like the WPA and the CCC back in the Great Depression, to put people to work so they could feed their families and pay their rent and if they were lucky enough, their mortgages.

What part of this do you not understand?  Why are Republicans fighting the hiring of unemployed Americans so hard?  Who do you think is going to pay for your insurance program if everyone is out of work?  If no one is working, NO ONE IS PAYING TAXES!!!

And if no one is paying, tax cuts are like putting lipstick on a pig, now, aren't they?

Perry