When we have homeless people sleeping under bridges and in tents, when we have sick kids and pregnant women who can't afford medical care, when we have massive violence and gun crimes, we're giving "huge Christmas presents" to Trump, Trump kids, and those in their financial bracket? We're giving tax breaks to manufacturers of booze, owners of vineyards, private jets and golf clubs?
This country is losing its soul! Most Republicans, even though their constituents are begging them to kill this cruel bill--well, they do have to pass something after all--anything will do!
While they're busy stripping rights from the poor to add to the "Christmas present" for the rich, they're grabbing acres of natural wild lands. Who needs national monuments if those pristine lands can be sold to the highest bidder or mined for "beautiful coal"?
Theodore Roosevelt and others are turning over in their graves, men and women who have protected national wild land for decades.
As for the question of tax cuts for the wealthy and tax increases for the rest of us? The mystery has been solved!
The rest of us, according to a congressman in Iowa named Grassley, are "not investing" according to the standards of the wealthy, but are busy "spending every darn penny on women, booze, and movies."
So that's it! We don't matter, we masses of layabouts!
I know a lot of these layabouts--not the desperately poor but the middle class. I am one of them. Though I don't drink booze, I admit I do spend $8 a month on Netflix and occasionally shell out about the same amount for a movie at the theater, plus popcorn. And sometimes I treat a friend to lunch or buy a birthday present for her--do those count as spending money on women?
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