Tax and spend
Was walking out of the grocery store and saw the front page of the NY Post, which referenced Biden's tax and spend policies.
I think the usual response to that assertion is knee jerk defensiveness. Then I got to thinking. Of course the government is going to tax and spend. If it doesn't tax, it doesn't spend. Troops won't be paid. Legislators won't be paid. SS payments would stop. Of course the government is going to tax and spend, you morons. Government employees are not volunteers, and aircraft carriers are not funded via bake sales (though that's another discussion we may have). So of course the government is going to tax and spend.
The difference, of course, is that Biden has a plan to tax those who can most afford it and who have the capacity to hire thousands of accountants and pay them to avoid paying the federal government. So, tax away.
The other difference is that the spending is for the American people, not American businesses, not American oligarchs, not the 1%-ers. The readers of the NY Post are not billion dollar companies, American oligarchs, or the 1%-ers, and yet the editors of that newspaper, and Fox and the other propaganda outlets of course, are going to try, with likely success, to persuade their low-education, low-info voters that it's a bad thing for the government to spend money on. . . well, on them. Given how much our lives are spent in SMH mode, it's astounding that there's not an epidemic of concussions.
And while I'm in pissed off mode, a comment on that unify theme. You - Republicans - are more than welcome to join the majority in the House and Senate, and the majority of Americans - in enacting legislation - unifyingly, jointly - that benefits the so-called everyday Americans. Working Americans. Heck, non-working Americans. Our fellow citizens, some of whom are less well off than you are. No one is stopping Republicans from joining in. Democrats are not closing the door to Republicans, literally or figuratively. Hell, with the exception of the extreme RWNJ contingent, this week found legislators from both sides of the aisle agreeing on clean water, I think it was, and something about human trafficking. Again, no one is preventing them from contributing on other issues, as long as the contribution doesn't consist of "no, hell no, fuck no." However, most of them choose the hell no/fuck no approach to governance, so the Dems are doing what's necessary to support their constituents and the constituents of the do-nothing/know-nothing party.
So, on balance, go ahead and tax and spend, and, Republicans, fuck you.
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Spending never really seems to go down under Repubs, they just cut taxes and put everything on the credit card.
reTHUG Fascist Insurrectionist manner or in an ethical, Democratic/Joe Biden manner.
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