Dear Rep. McCaul,
Thank you for sending me your weekly newsletter.
I note from its content that you are now batting zero! You mentioned four specific actions, for which you seem to be proud, but in fact are instrumental in helping to convert the US to a Marxist society.
You say, this week the House of Representatives passed the Student and Family Tax Simplification Act backspace, which modifies and permanently extends the American Opportunity Tax Credit for tuition, which will help our children to achieve their educational goals without going into crippling student debt or putting undue financial burdens on families.
Is there some reason that I and other US citizens should be making concessions to educate other people's children because you say it should be so? Students should have an obligation to educate themselves with the aid of their families. You say "undue" financial burdens on families. What makes it "undue"? Is the cost of a father feeding his children also an undue financial burden on his family? When you pass a law like this you only disturb the socialogical market. In this case, you are indirectly funneling taxpayer money into universities. It's wrong and you should quit meddling.
You say, the House also passed the Child Tax Credit Improvement Act.
This legislation requires individuals to include their Social Security number on a tax return in order to qualify for the Child Tax Credit. This will result in a savings of over $20 billion.
This one sounds kind of dumb to me. If you're talking about federal income tax Form 1040, there is a space to fill in the Social Security number. If you don't fill it in, the IRS presumably indicates it as a nonfiling. Consider also two paragraphs above. Why should taxpayers be required to support children through a federal mandate? It is the responsibility of families to support their own children through their own efforts, normally considered work. If they do not do so, it is a matter of child abuse and the children can with existing laws be removed from the families as the parents serve jail time. When children are in institutions, I will grant that taxpayers have a responsibility to support them, but this is far different than giving money to indolent parents to hopefully use in the support of their children. What about the saving of $20 billion? How is it saved? You mean that the federal government will not give out $20 billion of taxpayer money to indolent parents? If that's a saving, why not go for the big one and cut off all Child Credits on federal income taxes?
You say, in an effort to continue to honor the Greatest Generation and support the Honor Flight Network, the House passed the Honor Flight Act, which directs TSA to provide an expedited screening process for veterans traveling on flights operated by the Honor Flight Network.
More dumb. The Honor Flight Network is a composite of private organizations dedicated to helping veterans visit war memorials involving themselves at various locations, particularly Washington DC. Notice that I said private organizations. It has no relationship to government. Suddenly government wants to get into the act by directing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to establish a process for providing expedited and dignified passenger screening services for veterans traveling on an Honor Flight to visit war memorials built and dedicated to honor their service. Things were going along just fine with the private operation. Why does government suddenly have to get involved? Is it really significant to veterans that they now don't have to take their shoes off at airports, when everyone else does? While you're at it, why not a law requiring all citizens to tip their hats when they come across a known veteran? Come on! Get out of the business of minutia and start getting down to cases of how you can best allow citizens to operate within their own country.
You say, finally we continued to combat the cruel and predatory practice of human trafficking by passing several pieces of legislation aimed at stopping, deterring and preventing human trafficking while ensuring we are apprehending those responsible for these heinous crimes. One of the bills that passed, the Human Trafficking Detection Act of 2014, was a bill I cosponsored and passed out of the Homeland Security Committee. This bill directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to train DHS personnel how to effectively deter, detect, disrupt, and prevent human trafficking. This legislation is a direct result of the field hearing I chaired in Houston on human trafficking earlier this year.
Here again, there was no need for more legislation. Human Trafficking is only another politically correct term for kidnapping. We have plenty of laws regarding kidnapping, and everybody knows what kidnapping is.
We don't need to train federal government agents to recognize kidnapping.
Most kidnapping cases can be prosecuted by the states. There is also a futility in any federal effort of training, deterring, disrupting and preventing kidnapping, when the Atty. Gen. of the United States, regards these items is insignificant and does not bother to prosecute known kidnappers. Why not get on with the main point of in some way making the Atty. Gen. enforce current federal kidnapping laws?
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