The Tax Overhaul

I have never understood people that vote against their own self-interest, and I believe that is what people are doing that vote Republican. I try to circle that square, as how someone who is working or middle class, would vote Republican, and then celebrate when that party gives huge tax breaks to the rich and corporations. It is another form of redistribution of wealth, going from the poor to the rich. Yet, Republican voters cannot stand when the redistribution of wealth goes the other way, in their favor.

Having said that, I do also believe what LBJ said about politics, and I know that I’m paraphrasing here, but it’s all about power; those that want it, and those that don’t want to give it up. It’s a very base and cynical way of looking at things, but in that prism, politics does make more sense to me.

The tax over haul; nothing but power. It is ensuring that one group get a leg up over the other one. This is an action to dismantle the New Deal and Great Society. Thoes orginal programs were nothing but a shift in power in their own rights. It took the money from the very wealthy and the very few, and gave it to everyone else. It was a power shift that clearly said who was most important to the government.