Nurse the Hate: Tax Windfall

At first, I was very excited by this windfall of cash I was about to receive thanks to this massive tax cut Congress finally passed. Then I realized that since I wasn’t a CEO of a major corporation or have significant real estate holdings, I was only going to wind up with $25 a week. The great news is that thanks to the promise of “trickle down economics” I will be the recipient of a massive wage increase. As we know, whenever a corporation gets a giant influx of cash, the first thing they do is rain cash down on their employees. Wait, maybe they shell out obscene bonuses to the top three or four executives perched on the flow chart and keep the rest of the serfs working at their previous wages. I can’t remember which.

What bothers me about this tax plan is the absolute insincerity of the entire enterprise. The exact same Congress that waved their arms in horror about the deficit under Obama have now completely reversed course and decided to give massive wealth to the top .5% of income earners and real estate developers. On what must be an unrelated note, I seem to recall our President is involved in real estate. The deficit, which was one of their top talking points, is expected to grow to 1.5 Trillion. That's with a "T".  Meanwhile these assholes all keep saying with a straight face that cutting taxes to corporations and top earners is about “American Families”.  "We need to create jobs and make our economy competitive!"  This completely ignores the fact that our employment rate is at a near record low and corporations have record profits. Who is going to take all of these illusionary "new jobs"?  Also of note is that almost all actual heads of corporations have indicated they have no plan whatsoever to add employees or invest in their own companies. They are simply going to pocket the 15% cut of the massive revenue and inevitably pay themselves with it as part of their ebida bonus structures. Meanwhile the TV misdirection by Congress continues.  Watching Paul Ryan pretend to care about normal people is an affront to common decency. The ultimate shill and company man, Paul Ryan would sell out anyone for personal gain. He is a man with no visible soul.

It was incredible it took these criminals this long to get it done. They have an absolute majority to jam whatever they want up our ass. Yet it took them a year. It’s like a bunch of guys were starving in an apartment. They had a wad of money, a pizza coupon, and a phone. They just couldn’t seem to get the thing ordered. “Well, I’m not going enter into a pizza without pepperoni! Until we come to a basic agreement on meat or vegetarian pizza, there’s no point in discussing eating. I suggest we reconvene in a month to discuss the possibility of ordering food in the future.” (Insert grumbling of old white men)

Perhaps they needed to get their implausible story straight.  This idea of trickle down economics is too ridiculous to even bear serious discussion. It has failed three times in our history. The basic concept of this tiny majority of the very rich spending great money and effort to cut their own taxes so they can then in turn give it away to someone else is absurd. Has that ever happened? Once?  Anywhere in history?  The icing on the cake is that the politicians that are rewarding the ultra rich only got in the position to do so by lying to the working class. I think of those idiots I saw at The Youngstown Trump 1000 Year Reich Rally. There they were waving their flags and hooting it up shouting “USA!” for a real estate hustler that was only focused on his own personal gain. Hooray. Here’s your $500 a year tax cut Youngstown. By the way, we are cutting your health care. Deuces.

I was watching various GOP Congressmen try to sell this scam on TV. The talking points are nonexistent studies suggesting that not paying for government spending now is no big deal thanks to the Beautiful Future of Economic Boom.  When pressed, these Congressmen then switch to "well, no one can tell the future, but this is good for families!".  And who could be against families?  "Many studies I can't produce show this will be very effective!"  The "studies" show it will work.  These are also the same people that are ignoring what 99.5% of scientists say about our impact on climate change in their studies. 

In this life you usually get what you deserve. America, you deserve this.  There's a party going on you haven't been invited to.  The bad news is that you are going to get stuck with the check.