We
know Republicans and especially Trump lie and they lie all the time.
Here is the reality world analysis of the mammoth tax cut for the rich
they just passed and not the fantasy land analysis that Donald Trump and
his Republicans say it is.
Trump and his merry men are selling this latest legislative horror as a tax cut for the middle class and called it the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017." Unless you have been living on Pluto you know that is a lie. It is most definitely not a tax cut for the middle class but It is
a humongous tax cut for the 2% wealthiest and an ultimate tax increase
for the middle class and the poor. It most definitely will not, as
trickle down economics never does, create jobs. The tax cuts for the
rich are for corporations where they have slashed the rate for them from
35% down to 21%. This humongous cut for corporations along with other
giveaways to the rich like the Estate Tax repeal and as the Washington
Post said "talking about closing the loophole of "carried interest"
isn’t the same as closing it" which they didn't. This horrific tax bill
will add 1.5 trillion dollars to the deficit. Someone has to pay for
it. The question is who or what.
You
may think Republicons hate deficits and, of course, they say they do.
Because they say they do when the deficit balloons 1.5 trillion dollars
more because of the tax cut Republicans will try to say they must cut
spending to fill the hole since deficits according to Republicanland are
so bad. Where do you think Republicans will want to go to fill the tax
cut hole in the evil deficit they themselves exploded? Will they cut
the military source of our greatest spending? No. They will never
advocate for a trimming the military's budget since Republicans have
never found a war they did not like to send our troops in which to die.
Wars cost money .... big money.
Naturally,
Republicans will say the deficit they raised must be cut by trimming
"entitlements." I loathe that word "entitlements" because if you are
receiving Social Security and Medicare you did not take a handout rather
you paid for it when you worked. No matter, Republicans will try to
convince you that these must be cut or even eliminated in favor of block
grants or whatever pro Wall Street Ayn Randian bs thing they can come
up with in their life-long attempt at privatizing everything. Why would
they want to do that? Simple answer Republicans do NOT let me repeat
NOT care about you, your retirement or your health and as George Carlin
said "at all, at all, at all." "They are", he said "coming for it all
and", he said, "they'll get it, they'll get all of it!" Again Youtube
George Carlin's "American Dream" to get in touch with perceptive
Realityland.
I
want those, who experienced in 2007 the Great Recession, to imagine if
Social Security and Medicare were not available to you? The answer is
you would die and who would care? Surely not Republicans. They do not
care a whit about you. Now understand that following great economic
booms like we are in now is often a bust in the form of a Great
Recession or even if severe enough another Great Depression. This takes
time to happen and I think one should make no mistake that it will and
it may even be worse than the 1929 Great Depression as Trump has seen
fit to executive order all regulations out of everywhere with tax cuts
for the wealthiest 2%. What could possibly go wrong with a Wall Street
unchained?
Do
not be fooled by these mendacious merchants of mayhem and greed. The
tax cut for which they just voted is not for you it's for them, their
family's inheritance, their buddies on Wall Street and the corporate
donors that keep their cash coffers overflowing with pay for play cash
so Congresspersons can stay in power. They did it for their donors who
demanded it or else. Or else what? Or else they pull their money from
them. Welcome to Citizen's United America an America that does
not care about, as Jesus said, the least of these. They do care about
the richest of these though and you can take that reality to the bank!
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