The American Human: Tax-Cut Tuesday: Let the Lying Begin!

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Tax-Cut Tuesday: Let the Lying Begin!

It's no joke: Buried within the brand-sparkly-new GOP tax-cut proposal is the Big Lie, the one that's not supposed to be noticed when you go Oscar-Simpson-style, "Oooh, tax cuts!"

House Speaker Paul Ryan has never met a tax proposal he couldn't lie about.

We knew this was coming, just like the dark after the Sun goes down. With great fanfare, the Republicans announced a tax cut without any offsets because everybody knows when you cut taxes, tax revenue goes up!

But that's not the ~~zombie~~ Big Lie I'm talking about. Josh Barro, crimping notes from Jonathan Swan of Axios, explains how the DOUBLE YOUR STANDARD DEDUCTION! is a big fraud. Most of us middle-class members will get nearly nothing in tax cuts and a number will find their taxes increased. Fer real.

And, of course, there are massive tax cuts for the wealthy. More to come. But read Josh Barro's take-down. Then pay close attention over the coming days and weeks. We'll all need each other to explain things to Oscar Simpson AKA Trump's beloved poorly educated. Otherwise, fiscal Armageddon.

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My General Principles

1. Civilized societies require the rule of law.
2. Science is my preferred method for examining and understanding reality.
3. Religion is superstition.
4. An educated society is a healthy society.
5. Democratic governments are by their very nature socialist.
6. Market economies are by their very nature capitalist.
7. Markets are not (entirely) efficient or rational and thus require regulation.
8. Don’t confuse politics with public policy.
9. Civil discourse requires rational argument, even if yelling or stomping your feet or name-calling is more fun.
10. If you consider making stuff up a viable tactic, you are disallowed from civil discourse.
11. Puritanism is America’s original sin.
12. Income redistribution is good for society, hoarding is not.
13. Everybody, from time to time, needs help.

About the American Human

The American Human is written by Calvin Ross, a retired teacher who at various points in life has been a musician, woodworker, restaurateur, narrator, English teacher in Japan, novelist, technology journalist, and private tutor to Japanese children here in the U.S.

Happily residing in the wine country of Sonoma County north of San Francisco, Calvin has lived in the Philippines, the Netherlands, and the aforementioned Japan, as well as in Chicago, Colorado, Georgia, and many different towns in California, including, of all places, the Mojave Desert.

Calvin, you may note quickly, is a liberal progressive who doesn't think being called a socialist is all that bad, especially since he sort of would like living in Denmark if it weren't so cold. He blogs because he can.