A waste of tax dollars

U.S. Sen. John Boozman’s recent guest op-ed told everything needed to know about priorities and how tax dollars are wasted. Boozman touted World Trade Center Arkansas, a taxpayer-funded institution ($7.5 million in federal grants). Huge, ritzy location in Rogers.

Heard of WTCA? Probably not, because it seems they haven’t done anything but waste tax dollars. Boozman’s sole example of accomplishment was representatives traveling to Washington to submit documents on renegotiating NAFTA. He did also boast of “hosting foreign delegations,” and “sending representatives of our state to other nations.” All on our dime.

My family owns numerous successful businesses, and don’t need Boozman or WTCA to tell us thousands of U.S. jobs have been sent to Mexico or the Far East. Average Arkansans don’t need Boozman to tell us that under his watch Whirlpool left Fort Smith and took its jobs to Mexico. We don’t need WTCA to tell us Boozman and his colleagues have done nothing to reform a tax code allowing billion-dollar corporations to send profits and assets overseas to avoid taxes.

My family strongly supported Boozman his first term, donating financially and strongly encouraging our employees to vote for him. In our opinion, he’s done nothing for Arkansas.

My grandfather once told me, “When a politician talks, 98 percent of the time it’s self-serving, a blatant falsehood, and self-aggrandizing.”

When I asked about the other 2 percent, he smiled and said, “Being right 98 percent of the time ain’t too bad.” ASHTON MILLER III Hot Springs