One thing you can count on in 21st-century U.S. politics is that Republicans will lie

the Kansas economic miracle to sweep the whole country.

There’s even more at work here.

The reason for the psychotic intensity is that the ideologues know this is the Tax Plan Two Step.

First, you drop the rates sharply on the corporations (corporations are people too...) and the extraordinarily wealthy.

Then that creates a funding crisis. Since the defense budget is a sacred cow that leaves “entitlements”: Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.

This is the Holy Grail of libertarian/objectivism/Bicherism. They can see the promised land from here.

That is the goal—to turn the clock back to before the New Deal. That’s why they’re exploding at the slightest push back.

This should be spread far and wide on every platform.

The GOP might as well change their slogan to "We read (but didn't understand) Adam Smith, and also think Ayn Rand is the best."

keep emphasizing that Social Security is an EARNED BENEFIT not an entitlement.

Their long term goal is to destroy Social Security, Medicare, and other federal programs.

The only politically viable way to do that is to create Huge Budget Deficits then convince the public that these programs are no longer affordable.

It's easy to think the Rethugs are too stupid or willfully blind to realize that trickle down economics doesn't work and that huge tax cuts for wealthy individuals & corporations will cause huge budget deficits.

On the contrary, Huge Budget Deficits are the intended effect of their policies because Huge Budget Deficits are absolutely essential to their long term goal.

“We must elect a pederast so that we can take money from poor people and give it to billionaires”

Totally fucking insane that people are stupid enough to believe this.

Totally fucking insane that people are stupid enough to believe this.

It burns my ass to no end that our 1/3 has to smash its head in frustration while their 1/3 fights like their lives defend on it to let Rs fuck them/us and the "middle" 1/3 sits in a corner sucking its thumb.

WE have to suffer for their 1/3s pride and hate, and the softness of the middle 1/3 to push back against the right 1/3's petulance.

They exploit the bigotry and fear of their base into voting against their own economic interests.

I was wrong about Orrin Hatch. I thought he was at least a somewhat reasonable man.

He isn't. He's either evil or senile.

Either he's willing to proudly, indignantly lie in order to enrich the wealthy at the expense of working folks. Or else he's no longer competent enough to fully understand the details of the legislation he is pushing.

Most of the largest corporations pay no taxes. If you have a small business you still funnel tons of things through your business that you really use everyday in a non-business way. My accountant used to say, if you do not declare then you are committing fraud. If you declare everything and then write off everything and get caught that is a whoops, no fault. This whole giving corporate tax breaks is just a smoke screen. In the end it will have no effect on businesses. Now if they did what Bush did, be able to depreciate all purchases 100% over one year, THAT had a huge effect on business.

They were receiving refunds while I was paying.

It's not longer funny, if it ever was.

A LOT more going on here than just the biggest theft in American history.