“We
must deliver something to those that sent us here”
----Senator
Mitch McConnell, (R-Kentucky)
In
this simple, declarative statement, Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell laid out the justification for the worst tax legislation
ever produced by the United States Senate.
Fearing
the loss of their ill-gotten majority, Senate Rescumlicans, running
roughshod and leapfrogging over all normal procedures rushed to
produce something, anything, that they could take back to the people
in order to justify their wretched existence. The 'people' in this
case is not their constituencies, for McConnell was here referring
not to the good people of Kentucky but to the real people who 'sent'
him to the Senate—the billionaires, the Walton's, the Koch's, the
Adelman's and Mercers as well as the giant national and
multi-national corporations that fuel their campaigns and their
policy stink-tanks. Here in one steaming pile of shit, the Senate
presents the American people with the biggest transfer of wealth from
the poorest to the richest in the history of this country.
The
details are, of course, sketchy. Having rushed this through without
committee hearings, without informed debate—for the details of the
bill were being altered up to the very last minute in order to
fashion the 50 votes needed to gain passage. Finally, in the end,
every Rescumlican save Bob Corker voted in favor. Gone were the
'principled' protests of John McCain, Susan Collins, and Jeff Flake.
Gone were the so-called 'principles' of fiscal conservatism. Gone
were the protests of the 'deficit-hawks' with the lone exception of
the soon to retire Corker. All those 'principled' protests over the
years, all those howls and screams over deficit spending, all the
Rescumlican 'virtue' vanished in a flash as greed once again got the
best of them.
This
bill, of course, must be reconciled with the House version; and it is
debatable at this point which steaming pile of shit stinks the most.
The final bill sent to that great plutocrat posturing as populist,
will nevertheless follow the general outline of transferring wealth
through taxation from the working people of this country to the idle
rich, societies parasites.
It
will be presented, by the Liar-in-Chief, as a great Christmas present
to the middle class. Of course, like anything else coming from this
administration, this is a boldface lie. It will also be presented as
a 'stimulus' bill benefiting everyone.
In
fact it is neither. In fact the poor, the working poor, and the
middle classes will experience a 'triple whammy' under the lash of
this outrageous piece of legislation.
First,
there will be a massive transfer of wealth from the poorest and the
working classes to the idle rich, especially in the outlying years.
By the middle of the next decade it has been estimated that over half
the middle class will suffer significant tax increases, and those
making less than ten thousand dollars a year could face up to a
fifteen hundred dollar tax increase, while over 60 percent of the the
tax relief goes to the top one per cent and corporations.
Secondly,
no sooner will our very own Caesar Disgustus sign this bill and the
Scums will be taking to the floors of the House and Senate demanding
spending cuts in order to bring down the looming deficits. Programs
like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans
Administration, Head Start, farm subsidies and scores of others will
suffer repeated assaults as the Scums use the mess they've made as a
rationale for draconian cuts hurting the lower and middle classes,
the very people who create—through their labor—our wealth in the
first place.
Lastly,
the Scums are presenting a 'stimulus' bill at a time when no need for
such action can be demonstrated. With unemployment at a 17 year low,
you can expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates much more
steeply than would otherwise be the case, making the cost of consumer
loans (a staple of middle class existence) more expensive and raising
unemployment in an effort to 'cool' the economy and keep inflation
low. Let us make no mistake about this. The Fed will view the
increase in deficits as inflationary, regardless of the lack of any
recent empirical connection, and will raise rates accordingly
visiting hardship not upon the stock-jobbing vulchers, whose
investments they are openly protecting, but upon the middle class
upon whom the value of these stocks and bonds depend.
What
is clear is that the middle class and the working poor are once again
going to receive a beating by the Rescumlicans posturing as
'populist' tribunes of the working class. They are no such thing and
neither is the head of their party. Disgustus will sign the bill
into law. Disgustus, knowing nothing, will sign anything.
“Something
is better than nothing” chant the troglodytes that inhabit the
Rescumlican Party. This is not always true, especially upon close
examination of these tax bills. In this case nothing is better than
this, nothing at all, for by doing nothing no further harm to the
middle class would come. But the Scums are in need of a 'victory'
any victory will do, especially if it pays off their corporate and
billionaire paymasters. So, like common prostitutes, they will
perform the service however enthusiastically, but they will be
destroying the middle class and enabling Disgustus in the bargain;
once again giving to little lord Fauntleroy something he doesn't
deserve.
Impeach
and Imprison.
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