Some may remember a Stephen
Schwarzman back in 2010. He was and is the billionaire CEO of perhaps
the largest private equity firm in the country. He became hysterical
over Obama's attempt to make some “very slight” changes to the
carried interest charges. He compared it to “Hitler invading
Poland in 1939.” Just more nonsense from the privileged class.
No, carried interest charges
is not something that most of us need to worry about. It was devised
by and for the very rich, sort of like the tax havens across the
globe that have been in the news lately. It also remains in the “tax
overhaul” plan the Republican cult wants to get passed as fast as
possible this week. Of course, if we actually closed all these
assorted welfare programs for our pampered parasite class we probably
wouldn't have to screw the vast majority of Americans ... or at least
as badly as what might very well happen.
While we have been
distracted by the degenerate, half-bright sociopath in the White
House, the Republican Congress has been crawling frantically through
their own swamp desperate to appease their overseers. After all, they
have been told in no uncertain terms—no 19th century, no
more campaign contributions, from us, the kleptocracy.
No, no, possible collusion
with a foreign power, conflict of interests, failure to disclose
income tax returns, environmental degradation, unqualified nominees,
health and safety, growing inequality, gutting of health insurance,
third world U.S. infrastructure repairs, corporate personhood etc,
etc and etc is not the priority. The Republican Congress is counting
on an electorate unable to tear itself away from the latest
distraction on social media, television and talk radio.
The Republicans will give
the one-percent over one-fifth of the tax cuts, while the top
5-percent will get just under half of the tax cuts. Oh and they will
have to be paid for, not by some fanciful economic expansion or
trickle down nonsense, but by all the rest of us. The holy grail for
the parasite class is of course Social Security and Medicare. But the
millennials have not been forgotten. Well, they actually have, been
forgotten, actually.
There will be no American
dream for the overwhelming majority. For that 40 to 60 year old
group, well, work is good for you. Stay healthy. Don't waste time on
vacations. You may even win the lottery. That's the definition of
Libertarianism: FREEDOM to be unemployed, under educated, sick and
powerless to do anything about it. Oh, and we haven't even talked
about net neutrality. But it's too complicated for most Americans
anyway. The Democratic Party? Well, we don't have time right now.
They're still deciding on who they are.
Oh, speaking of
Libertarians, at least the rich ones. Many of them don't believe in a
lot of the childlike nonsense they yap about. They just don't give a
damn about the “democracy” thing. Regardless, at this point we
have only a fig leaf of a democratic republic anyway. Yeah, I'm
inclined to think we're dealing with treason; we have been betrayed.
Sorry, I forgot to mention the “chained CPI tax hike.” Look it
up.
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