Midnight Meme Of The Day!

-by Noah

Once in a while, a panic-filled little worm of a politician lets slip what a certain bit of legislation is really all about, or at least, what is behind the frantic push for that bit of legislation. Such was the case with the Trump/Ryan Republican Tax Scam.

New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins let the mangy cat out of the bag when he blurted out the truth

My donors are basically saying 'Get it done or don't call me ever again'.

The Collins quote became the rallying cry of the Republican Party. At the same time, Utah $enator Mike Lee admitted that if the tax giveaway didn't come to fruition, "We might as well pack up and go home."

There you have it, in the words of two spineless cretins: The reason that Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan rammed their Tax Scam through Congress and down the throats of America, all without hearings. We can waste taxpayer money on all sorts of hearings but we couldn't have those hearings. The idea was to ram it through us like a sword before we knew what it was about in all its gory details. Even when that failed and the public became so aware of those details that 75% of the nation hated the plan, the Republican Party screamed "Fuck You" to the American people and passed their scam. They even managed to all but completely destroy the Affordable Care Act in the process. For Republicans and those who vote for them, that was a cherry on the top; might as well spread some cancer and heart disease around. The Republican Party might as well be giving away free cholera and ebola. They would first try to sell it, though, if only to raise the funds that would keep them in Congress where they can still get their pockets stuffed with corporate cash.

There's nothing in the Tax Scam that will make anything close to a significant improvement in the lives of 98% of Americans. No, instead, money will go from them and be redistributed upward to the top of the economic ladder and things will get worse, much worse. Think of Russia as the model that puts smiles on the faces of psychotics like Donald Trump and Paul Ryan. One $enatorial scumbag whore named Marco Rubio was so desperate for donor cash that he sold his vote for a meaningless increase of $300 in a child tax credit. He'll try to fool his constituents with that, but that piddling amount will essentially disappear when factored in with the rest of the Republican scam. Rubio sold cheap. Call girls on Capitol Hill get up to $2000 for a night.

Tax Scam 2017 has nothing to do with business growth. Corporations have already said they won't be re-investing the money they gain in pro-growth activities other than raising their stock value. If you can afford to buy stock, great, but most Americans can't and now that number will shrink. Who benefits by raising stock values? The CEOs, of course. CEOs are not incentivized to do anything but raise the stock value that raises their pay and their bonuses. CEOs have another name: Donors. When Republicans talk about donors threatening them, they mean corporate CEOs. CEOs are happy, now. How long before they ask for more again?

In 1965, CEO pay outpaced the pay of workers by 20 to 1. Sounds pretty outrageous, doesn't it. However, by 1989, after the years of Reagan altered our course, the ratio had grown to 59 to 1 and was in runaway mode with no attempt from either party to apply the brakes. By 2016, CEOs in America's largest companies were making an average of $15.6 Million in pay. The ratio over workers had grown to 271 to 1. The new Tax Scam will dramatically and exponentially increase that ratio. And, there will be plenty of kickbacks to those who made it possible. Those who made this possible will be free to call their donors again. Not to worry. Economic Inequality anybody? That is what we call oligarchy. The TAX SCAM was never for us. It's the biggest cash grab of all time. You were a fool if you ever thought otherwise. It was all for them; the politicians and their precious donors. Those who voted for the politicians who have done this to America must be so proud. So proud they should burn in Hell.