Tax Cuts
The New York Times reported yesterday that “Republican
lawmakers are gearing up to battle a powerful force in the coming skirmish over
a $1.5 trillion tax cut: Economists”. I submit to you that there is another
more powerful force they better gear up for: “We the People”.
Let there be no doubts in anybody's mind. It's the
Republicans, the Corporatists, and the Power Elite against the American people
and the interests of this country. Our national debt was less than a Trillion
dollars when Republican Reagan entered office just thirty-some years ago in
1981. Just twenty-eight years later, when Dubya, entering office with a
surplus, left office, the debt had increased to $10 trillion. Today, it is $20
trillion. And don't blame today's $20 trillion on Obama either. In just eight
years Dubya left him with a collapsed economy. a 1.3 Trillion Dollar Deficit,
and an illegal war to deal with. In conjunction with all of this, they raped
the middleclass, creating inequality between the rich and the poor not seen
since the days before the great depression. There's a lot of hungry people out there, folks, and it isn't all because they won't work either. Now the Republicans are wanting to
enrich themselves even further when our economy is threatened with poverty up
to our ears and, maybe, potential collapse of the dollar. To this end, they have
had not a little help from the Corporatists arm of the Democratic Party.
Our people don't have to have a degree in economics to know
they are being screwed. They may not be educated or know the difference between
a Representative and a Congressman (calling all Representatives Congressman and
Senators Senator, although everyone knows a Senator is just as much a
Congressman as any Representative), but they aren't blind or stupid. And yet we
wonder why the people elect misfits like Donald Trump. Why wouldn't they want a
change? I tell you, the dysfunction being created is going to rain hell down
upon us if Republicans don't straighten up. The rich don’t need tax cuts, and our
country doesn't need tax cuts for them. We cannot afford them.
It's long past time for real tax reform. It's time for
everybody to pay taxes according to their ability to pay. We, the United States
of America lived "high on the hog" in the fifties, sixties, and seventies,
the highest standard of living of any people as a whole in the history of civilization, and the top tax
rates hovered around 90%. The Republicans have reigned, for the most part, ever
since and now look at us—look at where they have brought us. Look at our
condition. We are going down hill folks. Does it really take a pair of binoculars
to see that?
The real irony of all this is that so many of we the people
have let ourselves be sucked into the Republican lies and propaganda luring us
like lemmings over the cliff. I submit to you that, in the scheme of things,
the Republican Party has never really represented the people of this country
from the beginning during the industrial revolution. Their only interests have
been in the Corporatocracy and Power Elite that fill their pockets with riches.
Open your eyes people.
This is no longer Grandpa and Grandma's world. We are
being taken for a ride, folks. Theodore Roosevelt pulled us out of the fire created
by these people in the twenties and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman again
in the forties (and we thrived after both these times). I don’t know who, but
somebody must do it again. I must tell you, however, it ain’t no Trump. You’ll
see why soon, if you haven’t yet.
I have just now exercised my freedom of speech. Now you
exercise yours. If you agree with me, please share this in the public venue,
Facebook and otherwise. In the meantime, this is Ronald Miller
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