GOP Wants Tax Cuts Only If Wealthy Are Included

Senator Smurf explains why he’s holding out for the oppressed 2% of Americans who are fucking loaded.

As you know I follow politics very closely. In fact, it’s part of my job. So over 99% of the news coming out of Washington doesn’t surprise me in the least. But every once in awhile something will cross my radar that makes even a cynical bastard like me take a deep breath and pinch myself to see if I’m dreaming.

The strategy of the Senate Republicans vis-à-vis the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts at the end of this year is truly a jaw-dropping development. Not because we should be surprised at their line of thinking, but because they feel completely free to articulate it six weeks before a crucial midterm election.

In case you’ve been living under a boulder for the past few weeks, the Obama administration wants to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those making over $250,000 a year, while extending them for those bringing in less than that. If the Republicans had their way, the cuts would be extended for everyone across the board because as we all know, as far as the GOP is concerned, simply cutting taxes constitutes a comprehensive economic policy. But the Rethuglicans won’t have their way because they control shit in the government. The best they can do is block a move in the Senate by Democrats to extend the cuts for the under $250,000 crowd, and that’s exactly what they’ve announced they’re doing.

As you can read here, Senate Republicans from Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to centrist-right Scott Brown are loudly and proudly declaring that they will not vote for any tax cut extension unless the measure includes people making over $250,000, which at least check was about 2% of the population.

Two percent of Americans. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the base of the modern Republican Party.

Again, it’s not their position that’s surprising; it’s their total lack of concern for any repercussions from this whatsoever. I mean what does it say about the American people when one of the two major parties can stand up and announce that they would rather let all the Bush tax cuts for everyone expire rather than extend them just for the middle/working class, and not become completely fucked and irrelevant within 24 hours? And they’re doing this six weeks shy of a goddamned election no less!

But no matter, the Republicans will gain seats in the House and Senate in November. My advice to America at this point is to elect only Republicans from now until they reach their hearts’ content by imposing a debt-ridden, neofeudal, imperial state run by a banking oligarchy. (It should be noted that this is also what the Democrats want, but they’d probably let us keep Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, etc.) That way this whole great big project we call America will totally implode. The sooner that happens, the quicker we’ll be able to start all over, preferably by lopping off some of these people’s fucking heads in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

- Max