A tax giveaway?

With news that the U.S. Senate passed a $780 billion economic stimulus bill Friday night, I wanted to see what type of information was available on the Senate's site. So, I started poking around, clicking here and there, and I find a link to this:

H.CON.RES.23
Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the tax giveaway since 2001 to the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans should be repealed and those monies instead invested in vital programs to relieve the growing burden on the working poor and to alleviate poverty in America.

Let me see if I understand this: U.S. citizens work their tails off to earn money, succeed and prosper -- elements of the American Dream we speak so highly of and cherish -- and government confiscates a portion of our earnings in a variety of taxes and fees. So, when Congress decides we get to keep a larger portion of our income, they call it a "tax giveaway."

The gall of these misguided people to consider a tax cut a tax giveaway. The money was never theirs in the first place, but they lay claim to it as if they worked for it, as if they assumed risk by investing in a business, as if they were entitled to it.

I don't mind paying my fair share of taxes, but giving people a tax cut -- no mater how much they earn -- is not a tax giveaway.

My mother raised four of us by herself. At times, she worked two jobs. We were poor, but she could care less what we didn't have because she made the most out of what we did have. She loved us, and she let us know every day.

As a result, we never coveted what our neighbors possessed. The last of the Ten Commandments instructs us not to covet any of our neighbor's possessions. However, I believe that is what Congress is doing when it refers to a tax cut as a tax giveaway. God forbid we should get to keep what we earn. How unpatriotic (when you consider Joe Biden said paying taxes was the patriotic thing to do).

Barack Obama promised hope and change while he campaigned, and now to twist the words of Cincinnati radio talk show host Bill Cunningham, I hope I still have some change in my pocket when this Congress is done with us.