The headlines are all over the place: 94 Million Americans to Get Election-Year Tax Cuts! Hooray! Money money money money money! Yay Bush!
Listen, you freakin' idiots... we have a budget deficit at record levels and it's going up fast. We're talking about half a TRILLION dollars. And growing.
And now we're cutting taxes.
I know, I know, nobody likes taxes. The tax system is ridiculously complex and screws the average person while letting the rich get off with paying almost nothing. This is true and some reform is definitely in order. But just lowering taxes and giving people little refund checks is only a political ploy, and one that will screw us, and our children, for years to come.
It's a cynical bid to trick stupid people into voting for Republicans. They give you a little money, say they don't want the government to take your hard-earned money, and you walk away thinking, "Wow! What a great president!"
What they don't tell you is that they're cutting the funding for your kids' schools, they're destroying the environment and that's why your kid has asthma, and they don't give a rat's ass about you once you leave the voting booth.
It's pretty simple: Running a full-blown society costs a lot of money, especially one with its head as far up it's ass as this one. We pay for it with taxes. When you stop collecting as much money in taxes, you have to cut services. Who's services do you think they're cutting?
And the final insult is that we, as a people, as so screwed in the head when it comes to this issue, that Democrats who know damn well that this is terrible policy vote for it anyway because they basically have to.
Makes me so mad.
