Pretty Tough Choices

Yesterday I heard a politician on TV tell his constituents, "We're going to have to make some pretty tough choices. He was referring to the choices between funding education, for example, or vaccinations.  Or perhaps it was between repairing infrastructure and giving retirees the funds they paid into their own retirement accounts.  Maybe even between paying for food for children on welfare or keeping prisons open.  You never know what politicians are really thinking when they say things like that. 

But you can rest assured they will not make the toughest choice of all: repealing the seven hundred billion dollar tax cut for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. Those folks who are so unbelievably rich that it is impossible to fathom how much money they have.  People who could support hundreds of thousands of millionaires on what they earn each year.  That's $700,000,000,000.00.  With this money we could solve most if not many of the fiscal problems facing our government today. 

But, the presumably bought and paid for politicians ask, how can we do that?  Well, first we introduce a bill which states we repeal those tax cuts, then it goes through the house and senate and once it's passed both houses, the president signs it.  Simple.

But, what about trickle down economics?  These rich folks make the economy grow. 

No, they don't.  They don't spend their money.  That's how they stay rich,  And we're talking REALLY rich.  For example, when the State of Wisconsin is struggling to keep it's education system afloat, just one of these super-wealthy, tax skipping Americans could afford to hire an entire school's worth of teachers, keep them in their own house and still make money every year.  And they can buy solid gold Cadillacs, outrageously overpriced artwork, safaris to hunt endangered animals and six year old Cambodian sex slaves. 

Now tell me again, why do we have to make the tough choices between rent and medicine, education and vaccination, gasoline and food?  To give these people their tax cuts?  So that a very few Americans can keep their seven hundred billion dollars?

Who are our politicians really working for?  Obviously not us, not the middle class, not the poor... not the voters.  That only leaves one group, the group who are keeping all the tax money they should be paying to the government, their fair share.  Hey, we have to do it and we make the tough choices.  There comes a point where you have enough money: enough to live, to play, to work, to help others.  If $700,000,000,000.00 is what they owe in taxes, it means they have LOTS MORE MONEY than that. 

The only tough choice I see is getting our elected officials off the payola and working for the voters again.