Who Really Died At Auschwitz? (A 75 year Remembrance)

By |2019-07-19T17:15:22+00:00July 19th, 2019|History|

Following is a copy of an art Vilar written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper.

It doesn’t take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe – and possibly to the rest of the world.I walked down the streets in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz .   We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world. The contribution of these people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride. They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it ‘offends’ the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving in to it.

It is now approximately seventy years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, twenty million Russians, ten million Christians, and nineteen-hundred Catholic priests who were ‘murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated. Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be ‘a myth,’ it is imperative to make sure the world “never forgets.”

Update from Rep. Josh Gottheimer on Charity Tax Credits

By |2019-07-19T17:22:10+00:00July 19th, 2019|Taxes|

Dear Mr. [redacted]:

As your Representative, I have made it my priority to lower taxes for North Jersey families. In New Jersey, we pay some of the highest taxes in the nation. To make matters worse, the Tax Hike Bill kicked us in the teeth by gutting the State and Local Tax Deduction (SALT), driving taxes up for many in our District by seven percent and, according to Moody’s, sending our state’s property values down by 7.4 percent.

I have been working with local elected officials in New Jersey to fight back by enabling towns and cities to establish charitable funds to pay for everything from public safety to education. Taxpayers who contribute would receive tax credits applied toward their property-tax bills.

But last month, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a massively overreaching rule that would prohibit states like New Jersey from allowing municipalities to use these charitable funds to offer real tax relief to residents.

That’s why I introduced bipartisan legislation with Representative Peter King of New York to fully repeal the Treasury Department’s prejudicial and politically motivated rule. Simply put, Congress didn’t give the IRS permission to interpret the tax law as they see fit. It’s incredibly clear that this rule is aimed at whacking blue states like New Jersey and all of our hardworking, taxpaying families, and we cannot allow them to target us in this manner.

I have heard from cities and towns across the Fifth District that this Treasury regulatory overreach is stopping them from being able to provide actual tax relief for their residents. My resolution aims to provide much needed certainty and, once and for all, give people the tax cuts they need and deserve. Our families and our businesses simply can’t afford tax increases at any level.

As your Representative, my top priority is lowering taxes for Fifth District residents. If you’d like to contact me about this or any other issue, please email me at https://gottheimer.house.gov/contact/. If you would like to receive regular updates from me, please visit https://gottheimer.house.gov/forms/emailsignup/ where you can sign up for my e-newsletter.

Yours,

Josh

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