Following on some remarks I made yesterday, here is my proposal:
The “Yet Another
Criminally Horrendous Tax”
Act of 2010
Respectfully submitted for your consideration
by Kent Pitman
Whereas, the middle class of America is just pretty much doomed to pay for the excesses of the rich, and
Whereas, the news media of America has melted down to little more than an echo chamber for partisan talking points, and
Whereas, the Democratic Party often is too clueless, inept, or lazy to generate talking points of its own, resulting in ubiquitous Republican spin about these things, and
Whereas, the allegedly Liberal-controlled news media therefore spews little more than Republican talking points 24 hours a day,
Be it therefore resolved, that no change in budget shall be accepted as “payment” for any extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy without a firm commitment to send a letter to each each and every affected citizen explaining that the resulting denial of service was made in order to pay for these tax cuts, as illustrated in the following sample:
Dear Citizen,
It is with all due regret that we must deny your request for
[ X ] extended unemployment benefits.
[ ] health insurance.
[ ] a tuition loan.
The money you requested was needed under the provisions of the YACHT Act of 2010 to support an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. I'm sure you'll agree that at tricky financial times like these, we mustn't risk perturbing the wealthy, whose potential financial losses from a change in policy would make your present woes look trivially small by comparison.
You can rest assured that the tax savings created by this policy are already hard at work benefiting the only people capable of creating jobs in the US—wealthy private citizens. We're confident that the benefits of that policy will trickle down to you at some point.
Thank you for your support of the Tea Party and the new Republican Party in the mid-term election of 2010. We just wanted you to know we heard you loud and clear in the recent election. As you can see, our mission to cut unnecessary spending and increase self-reliance is well under way.
We look forward to your continued support in the 2012 elections.
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Author’s Note
This is a continuation of my post yesterday:
Paying for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
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Comments
Pilgrim, yeah, if I believed in background music on a web page, that'd be a good choice. Thanks. :)
soory I deleted you then added you back....are you dizzy yet?
But you must understand it is the dishonable members of the Yacht club will vote for their best self interests....
Dissed, I'm glad you came by and that it hit the mark.
Mission, if you're saying this has no hope of getting passed. Yeah.
Anna, glad to be your voice by proxy now and again. I appreciate your continued support.
But if Obama delivers on his promise to get Joe Biden to end Senate Rule 22 allowing the filibuster to die, and the POTUS finds those cojones somewhere next year, I will reserve my judgement. If the Obama administration continues the direction in the next year that it's followed so far in its snipe hunt of a search for bipartisan cooperation, I shall begin to refer to Mr. Obama as That Little Man on the Wedding Cake.
There are no "frames" or "perspectives" for what's being done to us. It's theft. If we don't fight back, we enter a byzantine decline of rich and corrupt pashas, luxuriating while shopkeepers starve.
Trish
Lefty, do you follow the Capitol Steps... They do political parodies. One of my favorites is The Tsounds of Tsongas (hyperlink is to an excerpt). That's the imagery you're conjuring for me. Yes, they have to do better. By the way, not that it's that relevant here, but that CD, Fools on the Hill also has another favoite: Ground Control to Jedi Brown (again hyperlink just to an excerpt).
Roy, thanks for the praise. In fact, I've noticed several flaws in the presentation that make me cringe, but it is, as my dad used to say “close enough for government work.”
Abby, you've come to the right place. They listen to everything I say and I have them basically eating out of the palm of my hand. I'll see if I can pull some strings. Tan on.
Trish, glad you liked it, and thanks for the mention over on your post. Always good to see people empowered to try their own CSS formatting using my tutorial.
Tom, thanks for the support. :)