Loebsack’s attacks on Miller-Meeks unfounded

Recent Dave Loebsack ads stated that Mariannette Miller-Meeks would increase taxes by 23 percent. This is a lie.

In public forums, on her website and in newspapers, she has never supported tax increases.

She is a proponent of decreasing spending and less government. What she does support is addressing and simplifying the tax code. This is critical to the success of American businesses and families' survival.

Loebsack needs to address why he cast the deciding vote for Congress to recess without addressing the tax cuts scheduled to expire in January. This will cause immediate tax increases for all Americans. A married couple with two children making $40,000 a year will pay approximately $2,643 more in taxes in 2011. Even this year, 40 percent of those making under $100,000 a year will be caught in the Alternative Minimum Tax trap and pay approximately $3,900 more. Loebsack states that he did not support changing the AMT, now reaching into our pockets.

Loebsack attacks Miller-Meeks because his record is indefensible. It is Loebsack that we can't afford! Vote Miller-Meeks for Congress.

Debra A. Derksen

Iowa City