T.J. Rodgers, founder and chief executive officer of Cypress
Semiconductor, the leading supplier for communications, computer and
military systems and an outspoken critic of big government, will be the
guest of Geoff Metcalf on
WorldNetDaily Radio today.
The daily program airs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the West Coast. Rodgers will be the guest in the 5 o’clock hour.
Cypress Semiconductor employs more than 3,900 worldwide and is the leader in memory, logic and timing technology for networking and telecommunication applications. Cypress boasted revenues of $705.5 million in 1999.
“Allow me to introduce myself,” Rodgers wrote in a New York Times piece Nov. 4. “I am among the richest of Americans, excess of the 1980s, some people might say. I earned about what a top athlete does over the last 17 years by starting a chip company in Silicon Valley now worth $5 billion.
“My company has created more than 5,000 jobs since 1983 and pays its American workers an average of more than $86,000 (on which they will pay an estimated $102.8 million in taxes in 2000). The company itself will pay $66.4 million in taxes in 2000, and it has helped to make America a leader in semiconductors.
“But in this presidential campaign, I have learned that I am part of the problem. Al Gore has attacked George W. Bush’s tax plan, because he says that it favors the richest Americans. Mr. Bush’s response is very simple and very right — if you pay taxes, you deserve a tax cut, no matter how much money you make. I am offended by Al Gore’s continuous attacks on wealth producers, because he continues the class warfare of the Clinton administration. But I don’t want sympathy. I do want to point out what I do with that wealth.”
Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily, says of Rodgers: “This is one bold, outspoken entrepreneur. He doesn’t pull any punches. If you haven’t heard him speak or read his writings, you won’t want to miss this champion of free enterprise and limited government.”
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