Milwaukee County DA responds to Rite-Hite letter to employees regarding HOW TO VOTE!!!

[Lefta Dissenter]

"Milwaukee County DA John Chisolm’s office has responded to an inquiry regarding the controversial letter sent to Rite-Hite employees, informing them of the consequences of an Obama re-election. Here is the unedited text of the letter:

Every Rite-Hite employee in America should understand the personal consequences to them of having our tax rates increase dramatically if President Obama is re-elected, forcing taxpayers to fund President Obama’s future deficits and social programs (including Obamacare), which require bigger government...

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...Rite-Hite nor I will ever prejudice any employee for their political views, and, totally respect your right to vote as you choose. I simply am trying to present the facts as I know them and to protect the business you have helped build! Please think very carefully about your vote on November 6th.

This morning, Badger Democracy sent the following email to Chisolm’s office. Rite-Hite is located within Milwaukee County, and Chisolm’s office would have jurisdiction in this matter:"

READ the entire letter Rite-Hite sent to its 1,400 employees, as well as Badger Democracy's great letter to the DA's office, and the DA office's response at:

http://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/milwaukee-county-da-responds-to-rite-hite-letter-to-employees/

[Ellipsis]

1. Even better Rite Hite - was awarded a grant of $26,471 in economic stimulus money

"The tax rate we pay is not 17%, as Warren Buffett would have you believe; with state taxes it is roughly 45%. President Obama has announced that our planned tax rate would increase to roughly 65%, reducing our after tax income by 36% and dramatically reducing, if not eliminating, your and my RSP contributions."

As a result, White said the company's profits would not be reinvested. Instead, he wrote, "the money will be sent into the abyss that is Washington, D.C. So, on top of the burden of having your personal taxes increase dramatically, which they will, your RSP contributions and healthy retirement are also at risk, all for the sake of maintaining an oversized government that borrows 42% of every dollar it spends."

John Vitek, a Milwaukee tax lawyer, said it was possible that the company's combined tax rate would be near 45%. "But I don't know where the 65% is coming from," he said.

And while White was critical of President Barack Obama's tax policies, government records indicate his firm was awarded a grant of $26,471 in economic stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/vote26-hc7bsp4-175871061.html

[arcane1]

2. I'm surprised he admitted that they "helped build that"

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. Good Work, Badger Democracy! ...

I would like to see every Democratic organization in a district where an employer has made similar threats, will contact either their District Attorney or the state's Attorney General. I'm sure every state has a similar statute that Badger Democracy cites.