The GOP is proposing a $72 billion dollar tax cut, to be dispersed using their their perennial “Trickle-down-never-has-worked-never-gonna” scam.
The GOP, simultaneously in-the-majority and struck with their proximity to our pocketbooks, has, once again, re-discovered “supply-side” economics, aka ” the trickle-down theory”. Years ago, people called this concept by the truthier title of “the-horse-and-sparrow” , as in, ‘If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'” Interestingly, the authors of this nonsense never seem to “re-discover” or care that this tax scam has never been successful, except for creating, over and over, the steaming piles of offal for us to clean up.
Direct-Invest-in-Us plan
What would happen if we just didn’t give the $72 billion dollars to our wealthiest people and corporations, including the 35% that goes to foreign investors? What if that $72 billion dollars didn’t go to tax shelters in the Bahamas, wealthy companies cutting employment or those hiring foreign workers?
What if we went out on a limb and say that “We the People” are America’s greatest asset.
What would happen if we invested that $72 billion directly into us for 2018?
- We could invest in our health. This money could pay the health insurance premiums for more than 12.6 million adults. We could take the high-risk people out of the pool, lowering premiums for everyone else, instead of the 10% premium increase that Trump has recently handed us, the first of many. We could keep 13 million people from losing their insurance and prevent the $25 million dollar cut to Medicare, along with the resulting toll of bankruptcies, preventable complications and death.
- We could invest in education. $72 billion could cover Pell grants for 12.3 million low-income and first generation college students, increasing their chances of higher paying work throughout their working lives, resulting in higher contributions to our tax, Medicare and Social Security systems.
- We could invest in jobs. We could create 689,000 jobs building and repairing our long-neglected infrastructure.
Ask for what we want! Every day. Over and over. Make sure your relative and friends in red states are doing it too.
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