In the children's book The Tale of Despereux by Kate DiCamillo there is a character named Miggery Sow. Miggery Sow is a young servant who kidnaps the princess for a rat, and believes she is going to become a princess herself the plan was admittedly bad. This is how DiCamillo describes the efficacy of the plan.
No one would ever, not for one blind minute, mistake Mig for the princess or the princess for Mig. But Miggery Sow, as I pointed out to you before, was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. And, reader, too, she wanted so desperately to become a princess. She wanted, oh, how she wanted. And it was because of this terrible wanting that she was able to believe in Roscuro's plan with every ounce of her heart. (36.24)
Mig really tried to go through with this plan, she really wanted to believe and the Roscuro the rat was also very committed to her going through with it. Remember how Republicans passed a sweeping tax reform a few weeks ago? Remember that? I have a vague recollection that there was this tax thing I think they were happy about. So if you recall that I don't need to go over all details. I cant say what the outcome will be but I can say that the GOP cant really talk about anything other then how good this thing no one wanted is. Paul Ryan continues to tweet how happy we should all be about this. Why is he doing this? Possibly because he cannot let us for a second forget the feeling of being Mig. He hopes that he can talk about taxes until he wins reelection.
As soon as the bill was passed, companies started giving out bonuses and the GOP slurped up that propaganda opportunity. Crediting the passage of the tax bill as the cause of those bonuses and what's good bill it is. You know how a Dr. gives a baby something to suck on while they get a shot as a distraction. Yeah that's what just happened. Most of those companies gave bonuses and then laid people off the next day. Also the bill passed and they gave out bonuses when they wont see the impacts until 2018 tax season. Again, remember Miggery Sow? How times do they have to tell us this is what we want before we believe it?
Multiple people have posited to me that we are seeing the success of the bill. "We have a great new tax plan with lots of cuts" they say as an argument to not complaining so much about POTUS. Um, come again? So anyone who is a working adult understands that what the bill going to in effect on Jan, 1, 2018 means is this when we go to file taxes in 2019, it will be for the 2018 tax year. So the tax bill is working like snake oil. I need it to stop this is so painful to watch people argue this, and I know Paul Ryan is like a dog with a bone so he can get reelected before people realize what hes done, but stop drinking the snake oil. If snake oil is not a relevant reference for you how about stop drinking the Koolaid. I forgive you if you drank their poison, but the time has come to stop its starting to look desperate.
The reason that they companies were able to give those is....wait for it....they already had the money for bonuses and they were too greedy to pay it to the employees. The bill could not do anything for them before Jan 1 and they gave out the bonuses in December. Followed by lay offs. Once again, everyone got a bonus and they totally shall we say "Miggery Sowed" the whole thing. Just as they did voting for Trump. "We got bonuses, because of tax cuts, this must be good, this must mean the capitalistic exploitation of our labor has ended" News flash we have already done this, and it ends in wages not rising, the cost of living increasing and the rich getting richer. Trickle down economics assumes that the successful people at the top are altruistic, which simply isn't the case.
It would be one thing if there were really no impacts but the truth is where we see the impact is in smaller checks. since the first of the year what would have been a $1000 check is now $900 for families who have no savings, and are living paycheck to paycheck. Which makes us even more so Miggery Sow and the first person who pays attention to us seems like they are full of good ideas, when really they are ruining our lives. They whisper "you want health care? I can refill your pockets" So people jumped on board, but we are experiencing unrest, and if you feel unrestful its not because the GOP is doing such a good job but rather because we are not seeing improvement.
Can we please stop? It wont hurt to disagree with the GOP. They got countless letters begging them to not pass the bill, it rewards exporting jobs, and Donald Trump loves it because he will get more money out of it. The middle ground is disagreeing about the overall terribleness of Trump and current GOP and being able to be real about their success. Stop touting the success of the tax bill as a means of not admitting we have a problem. Because by-Houston we do have one.
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