So it turns out that President Trump's so-called populism is nothing more than a sleight-of-hand that is really doing what the "swamp," maintained by Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, wants. Ryan & McConnell are long-time New Deal critics and chiselers who work for the rich and the super-rich at the expense of the Common Man. While cynically raising a hew & cry about the deficit when there is a Democratic Party administration in the White House, Republicans like Ryan & McConnell go out of their way to blow up the deficit like a balloon as soon as one of their Republican brethren takes over; in this case, Trump.
As soon as the deficit increases by a trillion dollars and more because of their irresponsible tax cuts for corporations and the rich, with a few, though temporary, smatterings of tax savings to the middle and working classes, they will be raising sand about the deficit, again, and attempting to throw out, lock, stock and barrel, social security, medicare, medicaid, nutrition programs, and any other safety net programs that have done so much to enable commoners to keep or rise to a basic economic footing, and in many cases attain the next economic level or higher.
The great New Deal and its kin are under attack by Ryan & McConnell. Corporations already have more than enough money to expand their businesses and hire more workers. Why do the super rich need to have the ability to extend their entire holdings, without taxation, to their far off descendants, even centuries from now? This is something that used to be called "landed gentry," which Ryan & McConnell are trying their best to bring back as an institution.
There is justification for reforming taxes, but not in the way that's tilted to the benefit of the political donor class. The whole thing going on in Washington, D.C., today, is just another exercise of the failed "trickle-down" philosophy, making the rich more rich and the poor more poor, while gradually having, practically, no middle. We'll be just rich and poor, soon, Argentina-like, unless voters make far reaching adjustments, which will soon mean voting for 3rd parties, as early 21st century Democrats, with all their internationalism and globalist ideas, are no better for the Common Man than Ryan & McConnell.
-- Mark Greene, candidate for State Representative, 30th Leg. Dist., Pos. 2 (Website)
[Revised on 12/18/17]
As soon as the deficit increases by a trillion dollars and more because of their irresponsible tax cuts for corporations and the rich, with a few, though temporary, smatterings of tax savings to the middle and working classes, they will be raising sand about the deficit, again, and attempting to throw out, lock, stock and barrel, social security, medicare, medicaid, nutrition programs, and any other safety net programs that have done so much to enable commoners to keep or rise to a basic economic footing, and in many cases attain the next economic level or higher.
The great New Deal and its kin are under attack by Ryan & McConnell. Corporations already have more than enough money to expand their businesses and hire more workers. Why do the super rich need to have the ability to extend their entire holdings, without taxation, to their far off descendants, even centuries from now? This is something that used to be called "landed gentry," which Ryan & McConnell are trying their best to bring back as an institution.
There is justification for reforming taxes, but not in the way that's tilted to the benefit of the political donor class. The whole thing going on in Washington, D.C., today, is just another exercise of the failed "trickle-down" philosophy, making the rich more rich and the poor more poor, while gradually having, practically, no middle. We'll be just rich and poor, soon, Argentina-like, unless voters make far reaching adjustments, which will soon mean voting for 3rd parties, as early 21st century Democrats, with all their internationalism and globalist ideas, are no better for the Common Man than Ryan & McConnell.
-- Mark Greene, candidate for State Representative, 30th Leg. Dist., Pos. 2 (Website)
[Revised on 12/18/17]
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