Trump
said during his campaign that we will experience winning. In fact, he
said that there will be so much winning people will not want to "win"
anymore. This was, of course, one of the more ridiculous lies among many
he would continuously tell and those who make up his adoring base cheer
the lies because few can discern them and most do not want to know the
truth.
The truth is Trump tax reform is not winning but it is
winning for Trump himself and the top 2% wealthiest of the nation. The
enormous "win" according to Trump means that the top 2% will get a
significant tax cut .... bully for them ... but the rest of us in this
game of thrones will pay for it. We lose because he will be raising our
tax rates to pay for the ones he lowers for the top 2% wealthiest. For someone to win at the game of taxes someone else must lose and
that would be, under Trump, us. He is leaving the Republicans in
Congress to sort out the details because, in truth, our president
although according to him has the greatest smartest Ivy League brain
ever knows nothing about nearly everything. Through various schemes and
loopholes like an elimination of the Estate Tax for those making $10
million or more the Trump tax cut for the rich will be a win for the
richest among us but everyone else will lose -- to quote a Trumpism --
"bigly!"
Winning
for Trump and his zero ethics administration is lowering the tax rate
for them but raising it for everyone else. He will lower it by, well,
simply lowering it but also, in part, by taking away certain state
deductions on which the middle class of many states have come to rely.
They will not be happy. Beyond that decreasing Medicare for the elderly
and surely taking a hatchet to Medicaid for the white and black poor
will be in the Republican cross hairs with Republican eyes, in the long
run, ultimately eliminating them. Prescient gerrymandering by
Republicans over decades while Democrats slept have carved out voting
districts to allow them to win as well as allowing Republican state
majorities all over the nation to suppress votes for persons of color
about whom Republicans do not give a whit. It is the political slimy
swamp Trump said he would eradicate but instead he and his cronies
became the swamp and made it swampier.
Republicans
have set their erasures on ultimately removing Medicare, vital for
saving lives of the elderly, and Medicaid too, for saving the lives of
the poor, who in the Republican heart of stone are expendable. The prime
plum for Republicans would, of course, be the erasure of Social
Security into which most of us throughout our working lives have paid.
Thanks a lot. I rather enjoy breathing, need Medicare and double need
Social Security. Trump also talks about lowering contributions to
401K's from a high of $20,000 to a low of $2500. With Medicare rates
lowered, Medicaid for the poor erased, and tax cuts for the richest 2%,
tax increases to the middle class and the poor those who make America
run will be relegated to a journey to the bottom of the earth a metaphor
for death. Worse it will increase the debt trillions Republicans claim
to care about so much but in fact will fall on the shoulders of their
posterity to pay.
If
these Republican excuses for humanity with no empathy erase Social
Security which is their ultimate goal then a life of poverty awaits but
this misfit Trump and his Republican deplorables will get their tax
cuts. That would be a so called "WIN" for this president of
Vesuvian ignorance but a loss for the middle, working classes, the poor
and immigrants who make this country run, who cut the grass of the 2%,
iron the clothes of the 2%, take care of the children of the 2%, clean
the homes of the 2%, cook the meals of the fat cat 2%. If Republicans
and Trump get their way it will be a gargantuan loss for the middle
class sightless who put them in office. Death is the true beneficiary.
A Trump tax cut win for himself and the richest 2% will NOT bring back jobs. More
jobs will still be outsourced to foreign workers who will take payments
of $1.35 an hour from those who own them. Trickle down is the same
trickle up of this tired story that screws the middle class but is
Nirvana for the rich. Trump's so called base is duped by Trump and his
cronies. A tax cut for the 2% richest will be a "win" for the top 2% but
the national debt, Republicans claim to care about so much, will be in
the stratosphere for future generations to pay or worse endure an
economic collapse. A win according to Trump and Republicans will be
another loss for the middle class and the poor creating trillions in
debt and ultimately the loss of jobs. With the eventual budget scoring
of this tax cut you will NOT talk about "winning." You WILL be talking
about losing. If Trump gets what he wants it will be a huge loss for the nation to quote a know nothing president "BELIEVE ME!
