{"id":5746,"date":"2017-12-05T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2017-12-05T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:26:19","slug":"making-those-poor-plutocrats-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5746","title":{"rendered":"Making Those Poor Plutocrats Richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, the Republican corporate lackeys passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/12\/senate-republican-taxes\/547280\/\" target=\"_blank\">their ugly tax bill early Saturday morning by a 51-49 vote much to the delight of their plutocrat benefactors<\/a>. This tax cut plan, which benefits mostly the 1%ers, including America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator, Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/11\/30\/why-senate-republicans-are-rushing-to-pass-an-unpopular-tax-bill-in-one-sentence\/?utm_term=.566bb46813ba\" target=\"_blank\">is being negatively received by mostly everyone<\/a>. It also cuts the corporate tax rate from thirty-five percent to a mere twenty percent. But despite all the crowing by Republican corporate lackeys, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/12\/the-7-myths-of-the-gop-tax-bill\/547322\/\" target=\"_blank\">the bill doesn&#8217;t stand up to scrutiny, which is one reason why they&#8217;re trying to jam it through<\/a>. But the GOP had to also act quickly on the tax cut bill because Trump may not be available for much longer with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/michael-flynn-charged-with-making-false-statement-to-the-fbi\/2017\/12\/01\/e03a6c48-d6a2-11e7-9461-ba77d604373d_story.html?utm_term=.c7552e545b88\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Flynn pleading guilty of lying to the FBI on Friday<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/12\/4\/16730290\/trump-tweet-obstruction-justice\" target=\"_blank\">Trump tweeting that he knew Flynn lied which means he admits to obstruction of justice<\/a>. Hence, another reason for rushing\u00a0even though it was mostly unreadable (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wnsXHBZaML0\" target=\"_blank\">see Montana Senator Jon Tester&#8217;s video noting the shoddiness of the rewrites<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s astonishing is that there are people, a.k.a Trump supporters, a.k.a. rubes, who still believe the myth of trickle down economics. When the rich get money, they don&#8217;t let it leave their greedy little hands. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/11\/15\/16653698\/ceos-investment-tax-reform\" target=\"_blank\">They&#8217;re not going to invest it;<\/a> they keep it or spend it on their favorite people; themselves. To illustrate this point,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/12\/03\/grassley-tax-booze-women-movies-277764\" target=\"_blank\"> Iowa senator Chuck Grassley stated &#8220;I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing,\u00a0as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it\u2019s on booze or women or movies.\u201d<\/a> Yeah, what about buying food, clothing,\u00a0health care\u00a0and the necessities of life, which are becoming more expensive thanks to the out of control greedy assholes like Grassley and his fellow Republicans in this country. We like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FKxS7UR61lg\" target=\"_blank\">the Young Turks commentary on this colossal jackass<\/a>.\u00a0But this is indicative of how all Republicans think of the middle class and poor. If we were Iowans who were among the 99%, we&#8217;d start a torch and pitchfork parade to Grassley&#8217;s farm\u00a0for some up close and personal explanations and to possibly explain to Mr. Grassley how compassion for your fellow human beings actually works.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5747\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5747 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/plutocrattrumptaxcuts.jpg\" alt=\"Some clueless Trump supporters, a.k.a. rubes, still believe that the plutocrats who own the Republican Party and will benefit the most from Trump's tax cuts, are actually going to let money trickle down to them.\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/plutocrattrumptaxcuts.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/plutocrattrumptaxcuts-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some clueless Trump supporters, a.k.a. rubes, still believe that the plutocrats who own the Republican Party and will benefit the most from Trump&#8217;s tax cuts, are actually going to let money trickle down to them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, the Republican corporate lackeys passed their ugly tax bill early Saturday morning by a 51-49 vote much to the delight of their plutocrat benefactors. This tax cut plan, which benefits mostly the 1%ers, including America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator, Donald Trump, is being negatively received by mostly everyone. It also cuts the corporate tax rate from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5746\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Those Poor Plutocrats Richer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,3,198],"tags":[229,228,74,73,22,20,389,27,1507,9,1644,851,330,199,21,98,852,64,596,235,296,19,586,1643,605,1642,47,48,1645,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5753,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}