“Poverty,
homelessness, hunger, unemployment, underemployment, and overall deprivation in
America
increase under either wing of its duopoly governance – while Wall Street, other
corporate predators, and its privileged class never had things better.”
The sounds of happiness and laughter were heard around the
land. The elites of the business, corporate, and financial world were ecstatic.
Santa Trump had brought tidings of great joy. They were to be given even more tax
breaks to add to their voluminous fortunes that already were parked in offshore
tax havens. Was there no end to their good fortune? Many of them had been
bailed out with taxpayers’ dollars after looting the financial system; [1] now they are to get massive tax
breaks. [2]
“President Trump told members of his exclusive Florida resort ‘You all
just got a lot richer,’ just hours after signing
a sweeping $1.5 trillion tax reform bill that critics said would
disproportionately help the wealthiest Americans, a report on Sunday said.
“Trump made the
announcement during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago – the ‘Winter White House’ – on
Friday evening, boasting to his fellow one-percenters that the ‘biggest in
history’ tax cut he signed earlier in the day would make them even wealthier, CBS
reported, citing people sitting near the president’s table who heard the
remarks.” Mark Moore, December 24, 2017, New York Post.
And the “one-percenters” who attend Davos are surely in need
of Santa Trump’s tax cut!
“Pre-Davos report
shows how 1% now own more than rest of us combined.
Runaway inequality
has created a world where 62 people own as much as the poorest half of the
world's population, according to an Oxfam report published today ahead of the annual gathering
of the world's financial and political elites in Davos....
Nine out of ten WEF
corporate partners have a presence in at least one tax haven and it is
estimated that tax dodging by multinational corporations costs developing
countries at least $100billion every year. Corporate investment in tax havens
increased almost quadrupled between 2000 and 2014.” Oxfam January 18, 2016.
Oh well, money gravitates to money and at least Santa Trump
is making some people wealthier; that surely is a great benefit for them. After
all, this is the Christmas season and a bit of good cheer is in order for all
those poor suffering corporatists. All those millions of people on food stamps
must be really pleased that those people they bailed out with their taxes,
“just got a lot richer.” And those whose pension funds went into the dumpster
and those that lost their homes during the “financial crisis” must be over the
moon too. There were no bailouts for them. But hey, at least America is
being made great again, and that surely is a great Christmas present from Santa
Trump. So let’s all get with the program, and sing:
“We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Because Santa Trump, Ho, Ho, Ho, helped all the profiteers
Because this is the season of laughter and giving
And rich people and corporations have to make a living.”
Stephen J. Gray
December 24, 2017.
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