I watch
the news sickened by the greed of the people who must be getting paid by those
with all the wealth in this country who are supposed to be representing their
constituents who live hand to mouth. I have one thing to say in peaceful
response to the profligacy. If you are a citizen in this country who can’t
afford to fly on a private jet when you travel then you must vote every
republican out of office at the next congressional or senatorial election. Then
in 2020 you must vote them out of the White House period. This is not just a “liberal”
issue. This is a matter of human decency and survival for every human being
that religious people tout about having a right to life. Guess what? The lives
being affected by the ignorance going on within the alt right and GOP are
literally breathing air not waiting to maybe do so.
Here’s
the simple fact of the “estate tax debate.” If the family that has more than 10
million dollars being left to them after the death of their parents cannot live
on that amount of money or turn that (roughly) six million “after estate tax”
dollars into much more money…they do not deserve to have a fucking cent of that
money and someone who knows how to stretch a dollar or has the next billion
dollar idea deserves that money.
I am not
speaking as a person who has never been wealthy or well to do. No, I am
speaking as a person who was (in her twenties) a millionaire. Albeit, the money
wasn’t earned by legal means it was, nonetheless, earned and spent in its
entirety because of my lavish lifestyle and expensive habits. Ergo, my point. I
did not deserve that money. I did nothing to turn those illegal millions into
legal mass-millions. I did not invest in stocks through a front operation. I
didn’t, even, place the majority in a safe deposit box to be used as needed by
living reasonably.
But, I
was not greedy. I have never been greedy. That is why I am now a poor,
physically-impaired popper. I traveled and threw parties and supplied all means
of depravity to everyone I knew and many more whom I had no clue their names.
Do I regret not being more “responsible?” Yes, of course I regret not being
responsible and sensible with my money now that I am in the situation I have
been living for several years decades after my millions were blown. That would
be the epitome of the cliché of hindsight. But, do I regret not being “greedy?”
Absolutely not!
You see,
my circumstances having gone from wealth to middle, working class to poor and
unemployed with many disabilities that could be solved with money created (out
of necessity) an ability to live without many things that I once took for
granted and became very accustom. Even in my poverty I find ways to give money
to people and organizations. After all, what can you buy with a dollar in the
present day? Not a damn thing. But, if you give that dollar to someone who is
getting a dollar from many more people then it becomes something usable.
Sorry, I
strayed a bit. I digressed now back to my point. These so-called people of the
GOP and far right who are, supposedly, so “fiscally responsible” are nothing
more than greedy assholes being bought by the highest bidder. Can I prove it? Not
without the means to do so and in my current situation. But, come on people.
Common sense. I called the so-called president (the twit, I mean, tweeter in
chief) for what he was having never met him and before he was ever sworn into
office. Call it street smarts, intuition, Spiritually gifted – I don’t really care…
Point is that I can spot a piece of shit, used car salesman in an expensive,
mismatched suit any day or night of the week then times that by infinity on the
weekend. It is the reason I was never busted for the millions I made in my
twenties. If you want details read my poorly-written book that was published
after I got clean and sober prior to my college education.
Again, I
digress. This “tax reform” bull shit is just that – bull shit. Sorry for being
vulgar and speaking as if I have no education. I am excruciatingly pissed. These
assholes writing this huge piece of legislation that should be used to wipe every
one of their own asses so that they get papercuts where their brains reside is
not in the best interest of the majority of the people in this country nor
those who voted them into office in order to bend each working-slob voter over as
if they were pedophiles in general population.
What’s
sad or disgusting, take your pick, is the fact that the pretender-in-chief’s
base is either so intellectually inept or apathetic about this issue because
they finally have a racist, degenerate with all the intelligence and suave of
Al Capone’s lowest thug who executes a hit on the wrong person then blames it
on his gun misfiring. The man in the oval office is there because of his
stupidity, gullibility and greed. Greed and ego caused him to run for
president. Hatred, fear, ignorance, racism and manipulation by Russians and the
GOP who fell in line thinking they could control crazy got him elected. The
only intelligent people who helped him win the White House were the Russians. I
do not say this because I like what they did or agree with it though; quite the
contrary. I say it as a matter of fact. They knew exactly what they had on “the
one hand” when they chose sides to cause this country to implode just as it has
been doing with the right and left fighting, white supremacists and the rest of
us, religious zealots and the rest of us and (if this tax abomination passes
into law) the wealthy against the rest of us.
That’s
just the tip of the ice-berg with this tax plan. We are so in debt as a nation
as it is because of the fact that the wealthy control so many in the
legislative branch and (now) own the executive branch that closing the
loop-holes on the ultra-wealthy will not happen. In fact, we should be closing
loopholes and policing their money for offshore safe-havens with the same vigor
that the police, DEA, FBI and all the other branches of law enforcement (so repetitive)
police the medically necessary use of opiate/opioid pain killers for patients
who have actual, physiological problems that require narcotics in order to have
any semblance of a normal life and all the other “drug problems” that could be
eliminated if made legal to generate sales-tax revenue instead of incarceration
and prosecution costs. Yet, the GOP who only wants less government when it
comes to social programs that would assist the poor out of poverty or help the
sick and disabled would never look at all the agency overlap with national security
and law enforcement because someone might buy a fucking joint or do an internet
search on Islam.
Even with
corporations and the estate tax as it is right now – income tax for the entire
population is higher. Granted, there is that one percent who is supposed to pay
more than the schmuck who makes $55,000 a year, but guess what? The one percent
doesn’t pay what they’re supposed to pay like everyone else has no choice but do
so. Even if they paid what they had to
pay – they, still, wouldn’t feel it because it is the equivalent of me giving
the dollar away that won’t buy me a damn thing.
**For the
latest, factual data on corporate and estate tax compared to income tax revenue
take a look at this simple graph put out by the IRS on their official site at IRS.gov
(https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-irs-data-book).
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