You have to give it to the Republicans. Like particularly avid terriers, once they get their teeth into something, they never let go.
Take tax cuts for the very, very wealthy. Despite all evidence to the contrary--decades and decades of it, in fact--once again the GOP (Grand Oligarch's Party) presents us with the miraculous wonder of trickle down economics.
If we just let the richest amongst us pay less in taxes--a lot less--everything will be alright. They will create all of these new, well paying jobs, and all the proletariat will prosper and rejoice! Hooray!
In fact, everything will be perfect!
They try this nonsense every chance they get.
It started with that bullshitter nonpareil Ronnie Reagan. When Saint Reagan first proposed it, George H.W. Bush had the good sense to point out that this was "voodoo economics".
But "Poppy" lost the nomination, and given the chance to be honest or be Reagan's veep, well, he quickly fell in line.
So we tried it--and it didn't work.
Well, actually it did work, for the rich. They, big surprise, got even richer. Hooray! The rest of us, the pluribus if you will in e pluribus unum, didn't get diddly.
I will take a wild guess here and say that hey, maybe that was the plan all along...
You would think that an engaged, enlightened electorate, would laugh anybody who tried that scam again right out of the building.
But this is America, and, well, we ain't so good at learning or remembering stuff.
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