tax plan, which, as we all know, is a massive giveaway to the top one percent.
Speaking recently at a Koch brothers-sponsored event, Vice-President Mike Pence told a room
full of billionaires and millionaires how we're going to sell the American public on
a tax cut package that actually raises taxes on bottom-income earners here in the United
States while cutting taxes for the top one percent.
His idea is to have these millionaires and billionaires essentially come out and bully
their employees, bully fellow Americans.
"Use your stature," Mike Pence says, "to convince Americans that we need to give the wealthiest
in this country another tax break."
Now, that was how Pence began talking about this tax reform package that Republicans have
put together.
Towards the end, it started to take on a bit more of a desperate tone.
Here's what Pence said towards the end here, "We need you to reach out, use your voice,
use the stature that you enjoy in your communities and your state and all across this country
to share the opportunity that we have with this tax relief legislation.
Tell everyone you can that America needs this tax cut and America needs it now."
See, when Mike Pence and all of these other horrible Republican politicians tell us that
America needs this tax cut, what they're saying is that millionaires and billionaires who
funded our campaigns want their money back, so we have to go cut their taxes so that they're
gonna keep funding our campaigns.
Not gonna work at this point.
There's nobody in this country, or, I take that back, there shouldn't be anyone in this
country that actually thinks that cutting taxes for the wealthy is somehow going to
grow the economy.
Why?
Because we've tried it several times.
Every single time, it has led to a recession.
We have gotten lower wages, more Wall Street corruption, bigger recessions, less spending
power, less buying power, inflation outpacing real income raises for American workers.
The list goes on and on.
It simply doesn't work.
Anyone out there who tells you that it does is an absolute moron, much like Mike Pence.
Now I can't say for certain if Mike Pence actually believes the talking points that
he's spitting out, but we do know that the Koch brothers who sponsored this event where
he just spoke absolutely understand what this tax cut package is all about.
It's about giving the people who do not need any more money, more money, and the people
who desperately need a helping hand taking more money away from them so that we can give
it to people like the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson or Donald Trump.
That is all this tax reform package does.
It's trickle-down economics wrapped in a new package with the same bullshit policies that
have tanked our economy every single time they have been attempted.
At this point, I don't think the Republicans are going to have as easy of a time selling
it to the American public, because we've seen what happens time and time again.
It would take a real grade-A quality of stupid to think that this time would be any different.
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