Donald Trump – the President who never released his income tax returns, and never will – has been among the architects of a sweeping Republican Tax “Reform” Bill. Amazing. The hastily written and largely unread 1,000 + page Bill will give the typical taxpayer a small amount of relief for a while, but first and foremost it is designed to feed the insatiable greed of global corporations and the top 1%. Analysts calculate that super-rich will reap 80% of the benefits of the tax reductions in this new “reform.” These are the same folks who have already been favored by countless loopholes that have provided the 1% unique abilities to shield their riches from taxation under the old structure. This is not a “Reform” it’s a “Repeat” of Reagan & Bush policies that created and nurtured the huge divide between the 1% and the rest of us in America.
Why does anyone in his right mind think that this is good for America?
The Repugnican strategy is no secret. They have the best interests of their masters to serve. Their underlying policy is “Lets make those who earn less pay more, so that we can let those whose money ‘earns’ money pay less.” The Repugnicans, who were so worried about the deficit throughout the Obama years, suddenly have spun 180 degrees with Twitter-Don in office and magically proclaim the National Debt is no problem at all, in fact it can easily take on another $1.4 TRILLION of debt! This is supposed to be good for America?
Think about it for a minute, Ryan’s and McConnell’s Repugnicans are willing to take out a new $1.4 Trillion loan in the nation’s behalf in order to GIVE the 1% rich 80% of that money on a silver platter. That means the 1% get another $1,120,000,000 to make sure they stay stinking rich. What’s left over will be spread unevenly in small bits among the remaining 95% on a sliding scale regressing as income brackets decrease. That way most of the rest of us aren’t completely left out (except the already poor, of course).
Trump/Ryan/McConnell fervently hope that the middle class who get the crumbs under the 1%’s table will fall for the charade that they are our champions. They remain consistent in their belief that they really have no reason or interest to help the poor.
These grifters are saddling us with a $1.4 Trillion ‘Bill’ that will need to be paid. As things stand now, it won’t be paid by Mr. Trump’s Platinum American Express Card, nor on the card of any other person bloated with wealth. Oh no, Ryan and McConnell couldn’t let that happen to the sugar daddies who put them in office and have made them wealthier and more powerful than their wildest dreams. Their tax “Bill” will become our burden. The 99% of folks, many of whom already had to max out their Visa and Mastercard accounts in order to feed their families, will get stuck with the Bill.
Repugnicans want to buy our votes with pennies while they and their masters harvest more piles of money and power than anyone could ever spend.
Was anyone surprised when, in the 11th hour the Repugnicans quietly slipped into their sure-to-be-passed Tax structure one last provision that, surprise, surprise, provides extra tax benefits for Real Estate Developers. I think this provision should have its own name, The Donald Trump Screws America Again clause. That lying sack of excrement had the nerve to tell his “base” of followers that he is going to be hammered by this Tax Reform and that many of his fellow 1%’ers are very unhappy with him. Riiiiiiiiight. This tax reform is shoveling boat loads of money into Donald’s family’s pockets there is NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. His lies could not be bigger.
Wake up. This is only phase one. Trump and his Repugnicans are gearing up to drain, not the swamp, but the US Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs that every day Americans have earned and count on and that those less fortunate need desperately.
The Repugnican Congress is setting the stage to steal what rightfully belongs to real Americans. Somewhere along the line folks seem to have forgotten that when someone in a democracy is entitled to Social Security and Medicare, that “entitlement” is something that people have rightfully worked for, paid for and is due them. Social Security and Medicare are not items of government spending! They are bank accounts owned by people who had to make mandatory deposits into them during their working years. The national budget needs to differentiate between Operating Assets and the People’s Retirement Savings.
The record of Congressional theft of Social Security and Medicare funds to pay the debts Congress incurred for the country is long and shameful. And if we Americans don’t do something about it, it will be continued big time soon.
The overwhelmed and nearly powerless poor will remain Public Enemy #1 in the minds of the Repugnican national legislators. Medicaid, food, shelter, education, and other crucial programs that serve people in need are in the middle of the Bull’s Eye of the hypocrites who will look to take down “government spending.” Only the most reckless government spenders in the land, the military, will be not just exempt from cut backs, but the beneficiaries of several billions of dollars more to play with. The cost of toilet seats in the Pentagon has risen again to what, a thousand dollars each?
It’s time to for us to swamp these brazen bandits with the power of our votes. Let’s take them under. Vote for no one who refuses to sign a sacred pledge to make any diversion of Social Security and Medicare funds from their original intended purposes illegal and punishable under Federal Law. Vote for no one who would take sustenance away from any of our countrymen and women. Vote for no one who refuses to recognize that the current distribution of wealth in America is absurd, threatens the core of republic, and needs to be changed in our tax system quickly.
If the 99%, don’t stop them, who will?
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