U.S. National Debt is focus of Dawson County GOP meeting

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DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – Pepper Pettit shared some startling numbers regarding the U.S. national debt with those who attended the Dawson County Republican Party meeting Monday evening at the Bowen Center for the Arts.

According to the U.S. Debt Clock that informs the public of the financial condition of the United States, the nation’s debt is $23,095,871,671,554. An even more ominous number, Pettit said, is $127.1 trillion in the United States unfunded liabilities.

Unfortunately, the gloomy analysis does not end there. There are proposals in Congress that are likely to be passed if Democrats win the 2020 election that will add trillions to the national debt. According to Forbes, Bloomberg, the Washington Examiner and Fox News, the price tag for the Green New Deal, being pushed by Democrat presidential candidates is $36.1 trillion.

Another expensive program being pushed by Democrats is “Medicare for All,” with an estimated cost of $52 trillion. That does not take into consideration the loss of millions of U.S. jobs that would add another cost of $18 trillion to the economy.

The cost of a “Reparations” program that would be paid to descendants of Africans trafficked as slaves, is estimated to cost $97 trillion. The program has since been expanded to additional classes of Americans such as Native Americans, Gay and Hispanic Americans at an additional cost of $51 trillion. Total cost for the Green New Deal, Medicare for All and Reparations, if passed into law, would be in excess of $329 trillion.

BOC Chairperson Candidate Renee Duren speaks to Dawson County GOP Monday.

To pay for the programs, Pettit said, would require an increase in the payroll tax (32 percent), individual income tax (100 percent), corporate income tax (100 percent), income surtax (25 percent) and value added tax (42 percent).

In a more upbeat note, GOP Chairwoman Seanie Zappendorf introduced two Dawson County citizens who will run for public office in 2020.

Renee Duren, who announced her candidacy for Dawson County Commission Chairman in November, said what citizens want most is “to keep their quality of life, planned growth at a rate that doesn’t outpace our infrastructure and government that is honest, open and financially responsible.”

Marcus Sewell, a candidate for Dawson County Sheriff, told attendees there is a lack of leadership in the sheriff’s office and that the budget has been mismanaged.

“With my experience over the last 10 years as commander in the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office, I can bring leadership to that agency,” he said.

A longtime resident of Dawson County, Sewell began working in law enforcement in 2004. He worked in the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office from 2005 through 2009 before going to work in the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office where he advanced to the rank of captain and currently is in charge of investigations.

 

 

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1 Comment

  1. Ric Winthrop December 13, 2019 at 4:01 pm

    Reading the content on politics and the biased views of GA politicians scares the hell out of normal rational people. Sounds like the majority must fly flags of the confederacy and wear white hoods on the weekends.

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