I believe that banking
institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.... The
issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to
whom it properly belongs." ~~
Thomas Jefferson
Make no mistake about it, the GOP’s latest tax scam plan is
designed to further enrich the banks and Wall Street on the backs of the middle
class, the elderly, children and the infirmed.
After years of horrific legislation that has left America a hollowed out
vessel unable to care for its own citizens, Paul Ryan and the GOP are ready to
plunge a dagger into what’s left of the heart of America with their final
solution, death by trillions in tax cuts for the rich. From Salon:
Excerpt:
Why are Republicans so cruel to the poor? Paul Ryan’s profound
hypocrisy stands for a deeper problem
Paul Ryan has dreamed of slashing
Medicaid since his keg-party days — and that blithe hostility is widespread. Republican Paul Ryan, like most other members
of the U.S. Congress, is a millionaire.
Christa Patton is 68 years old. She
is frail and no longer able to leave her home. She lives on a fixed income.
Patton told Van Jones on a recent episode of his CNN show "The Messy
Truth" that she would not be able to eat without the Meals on Wheels
program.
Paul Ryan is the speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives. By his own account, in college he used to hang out with his friends and drink beer while
sharing his dreams of cutting Medicaid. When Ryan was 15 years old, his
father died from an alcoholism related heart attack. Ryan and his family then
received his father's Social Security survivor's benefits. Ryan used that money
to attend college. This was not the only money that Paul Ryan received from the
federal government. His family built its
wealth from receiving government contracts.
Like his idol Ayn Rand (who argued against the very idea of government and the
commons yet received Social Security and
Medicare), Paul Ryan has combined meanness, cruelty and callousness toward
the weak and the vulnerable with gross and unapologetic hypocrisy.
Republicans like Ryan — along with the millionaires and
billionaires who comprise Donald Trump's Cabinet and inner circle — literally want to take food, shelter and
health care away from poor people like Christa Patton. Today's Republicans
view these Americans as useless eaters to be disposed of by means both passive
and active.
The rape and pillage of America began in 1913 when an
illegal cabal meeting at Jekyll Island sold out America to the Rothschild
banking cartel. The cartel reached its
zenith in 2000 with the overthrow of the American government and the
installation of George W. Bush as President of the United States. With all the chessmen in place the 911
attacks gave cover for the cartel to plunge America into endless war and the
destruction of everything America ever stood for. From Veterans Today:
Excerpt:
NEO – America Beaten, Down for the Count
The world knows America is done for… We could give dates, 9/11; or
back in 1913 when America took on an illegal Rothschild central bank. Perhaps
it really is 1913; and the America of today is the result of bleeding that
began then.
It is always about debt. When
nations take on a central bank, and all central banks are foreign owned, all
controlled by the Rothschild family, their
institutions crumble, the family, religion, their government, the courts, their
media, all are targeted… The reason
9/11 is critical has nothing to do with the endless war sweeping the world that
it began, proxy armies, phony terror groups and teeming millions of refugees.
For America it announced the largest robbery in history, $10 trillion
in assets, enough to buy the entirety of Europe, simply “disappeared.” Only
days before 9/11 it was learned that $2.4 trillion was missing from the US
military budget alone, according to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
What few know is that the
group investigating, in their entirety, were killed on 9/11 during the incident
at the Pentagon. We call it an incident because calling it a terror
attack or even an airline crash is unsupportable without throwing away any
reason whatsoever. Then we ask, who does
such a thing, who would take down
America, destroy their government, collapse their economy as in 2008, and
allow a nation to be led by a leader known to be clinically insane? …
By the end of 2007, America’s 5 leading investment banks were bankrupt,
having “misplaced” trillions in assets. Most major corporations were the
same, broke, hopelessly, to the extent that the Down Jones Industrial Average
had to be reconfigured as the leading companies in America were no longer
viable…
Between 2008 and 2010, unemployment in America rose to over 10%.
Personal savings collapsed and personal debt rose to unimaginable levels while key industries like arms, oil and
pharmaceuticals … made record
profits. With interest rates dropped to
almost nothing by Bush 43, millions of America families sought to protect
assets through buying homes that would otherwise be unwise, overlarge,
unaffordable, sold on the idea of a ballooning real estate market by media
pundits…
Most homes lost 60% of value across America and those forced to
sell took on a lifetime of debt. Similarly, retirement savings typically lost 72%. A million dollar 401k that
would return $5000 a month for life based on Clinton era rates and market
performance was now only worth a little over $200,000 with an income potential
of $200 a month. America’s middle class would work into their mid to late 70’s,
with skilled and management retirees
sentenced to a decade of menial labor on behalf of the banks that organized the
crash…,
This is the business model of the world’s banking system. This is what
is meant by “globalism.”
“This is the business model of the world’s banking system”
carried out by the traitors “elected” to congress, not by the American people
but by the banking cartels who control the elections in America. Now their lackey Paul Ryan, who has Social
Security to thank for his education and leg up in life after the death of his
father, will usher in the “final solution for America” on behalf of his
benefactors. From World SocialistWebsite:
Excerpt:
Following passage of Senate tax bill, US ruling class takes aim at
Social Security and Medicare
The passage by the Senate of the
Trump administration’s tax bill is a
landmark in the decades-long ruling class offensive against the working class in
the United States.
With no serious opposition from the
Democrats, and with final passage of a tax bill by the end of the month
following negotiations with the House all but assured, congressional
Republicans are moving on to the next
stage of the class war agenda: the gutting of Social Security, Medicare and
Medicaid.
The Senate version of the bill adds $1.5 trillion to the federal
budget deficit, triggering automatic cuts in spending for Medicare, the
federal health insurance program for the elderly, of half a trillion dollars
over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and setting the
stage for massive cuts in other social programs.
Last week, Trump declared at a
Missouri rally, “We’re going to go on to welfare reform.” On Wednesday,
Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida told business executives: “Many argue
that you can’t cut taxes because it will drive up the deficit.” On the
contrary, he argued, the costs can be
offset by imposing “structural changes to Social Security and Medicare for the
future.”
After eight years of Obama’s pillage of Social Security,
first through “GOP designed payroll tax holiday” followed by higher deductions
of income from working people’s pay checks, along with no increases in SS benefits
the truly savage attacks on the American people is under way by both
parties. Make no mistake about it, no
one in congress is there to benefit the American people. Both parties are responsible for the
miserable state in America with their insatiable appetite for war. Spending for war is never offset, and the
military industrial complex is engorged with funds stolen from the American
people. From The Free Thought Project:
Excerpt:
In 2018 The US Gov’t Will Spend Nearly $2 Billion a Day — Solely on WAR
The price tag on the latest
National Defense Authorization Act is $700 billion, which will cost American taxpayers nearly $2 billion every day in 2018.
While the United States Congress
has struggled to pass legislation governing taxes and healthcare, it had no
problem uniting on the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act—a bill that will
ensure the U.S. continues to wage wars around the world, and that promises
taxpayers will cover its costly expenses.
The price tag on the latest NDAA
is a massive $700 billion, which means that for every day in 2018, American
taxpayers will spend nearly $2 billion on war…
“This bill passed the House 356 to
70, including more than half of the
Democratic caucus. It passed the Senate by voice vote—not a single Democrat opposed it…”
The 2018 NDAA approves $634
billion for the Pentagon.
This was done despite the fact that
a recent report on the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, found that between the two departments, they
have lost over $21 trillion in the last 17 years—enough money to pay
back the U.S. National Debt…
Almost a trillion dollars a year is spent to overthrow
elected governments in countries that have the audacity to sit on top of some
of the world’s largest mineral reserves.
With almost a trillion dollars a year given to the Pentagon and its
slush fund the Overseas Contingency Fund, America’s warriors must receive the
best medical care in the world after they are wounded. But alas no, the only ones receiving gold
plated medical care through the Pentagon are our arm chair warriors in
congress. From Veterans Today:
Excerpt:
NEO: The Unseen Victims of America’s War Machine
How many more lives will America’s
wars claim?
When the war drums begin, the first
victim is reason, this is no secret at all. I recently met with a group of
Russian war veterans about this issue – how those who fight wars are victims just like the armies of refugees and
the dead strewn across the landscape, and are now called “collateral
damage”, which may well represent a countless multitude…
In a world where America openly supplies al Qaeda with
weapons of mass destruction, where Israel and Saudi Arabia fight side by
side, and where “alternative facts” are used to support government policies, dissent itself is now a form of
terrorism.
Military veterans aren’t all equal.
Just visit Washington DC or towns like Annapolis, Maryland. There the strutting
peacocks in uniform have profited greatly from war, wars they risked nothing
fighting, wars they were paid to support
and defend, not the nation, the United States mind you, but war itself, the business, the racket,
the game…
In 1970, I returned from Vietnam
and began medical treatment in the huge government system run by the Veterans
Administration. My own injuries seemed minor as I entered the filthy hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan where amputees
lived on gurneys all over the building, stored in kitchen areas, storage
closets, overflowing urine bags, the stench of gangrene, the moaning of endless
pain and hopelessness…
This is what was really there, I
saw it, I remember every minute of it. In 1938, American author and
screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, wrote an anti-war novel called Johnny Got His Gun.
Trumbo was later blacklisted as a
Russian sympathizer and banned from writing though…
In 1938, disabled veterans were an
inconvenience. They still are, except at election time when each new candidate
promises to address the wrongdoing of their predecessor and, of course, in the
end, nothing whatsoever changes…
In a facility where there are luxury suites for members of congress
to receive the most expensive medical care in the world, free of charge, paid
for by American taxpayers, disabled combat veterans lived in filth, in many
cases medical treatment withheld until
they agreed to sign away their rights to disability pension benefits...
Yes, Paul Ryan and his cadre of millionaire politicians
receive their medical care in luxury suites free of charge while combat
veterans live in filth and are forced to sign away their rights to a disability
pension for fighting in wars that benefit the Federal Reserve Bank and its
shareholders. That is life in Paul Ryan
and Ayn Rand’s America. All their wealth
and perks aren’t enough, now they want to pillage what is left of Medicare and
Social Security to pay for tax breaks for their billionaire campaign
contributors. From Lew Rockwell:
Excerpt:
The Stupid Party’s Tax Plan
In 1986, big gubmint tax and
spending slasher Ronald Reagan unveiled a tax “reform” plan that continued the
massive transfer of wealth from the poor and working classes upwards to the
very wealthy. Reagan’s plan eliminated
essential deductions for consumer loans (auto, credit card, personal) and
overhauled the deduction for medical expenses, so that they had to have
amounted to 10% of an individual or married couple’s income.
Donald Trump, as always dominated by the disastrous neocon thinking
of Republican leaders like Paul Ryan, has released a new tax “reform” plan…
Perhaps the most inexplicable aspect of this plan is its attack- and there is
no other word to describe it- on home ownership…
Homeowners will no longer be able to deduct the property taxes they
pay on their home under this plan…. Eliminating
or nullifying the tax incentives for home ownership puts home values and middle-class
homeowners at risk… The Republican tax
plan also eliminates some of the
remaining deductions that poor and working class Americans still benefit from.
Student loans will no longer
be deductible. The medical expense deduction that Reagan slashed
dramatically will be eliminated. There will no longer be deductions for alimony
expenses or moving expenses. As
perhaps the most laughable aspect of the entire plan, it leaves the dreaded Obamacare mandate intact, which means
Americans can still be penalized for not having health insurance… the
elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax, which served to force the very
wealthy with numerous loopholes and deductions to at least pay some tax.
And the centerpiece of the plan is a huge cut in the corporate tax rate,
from 35% to 20%. Making a mockery of Trump’s rhetoric about forcing companies
to move their industry back home, the plan permits
companies to keep their profits offshore. The estate tax is also being
eliminated, a benefit which will only apply to the absolute One Percent…
This tax plan will negatively impact a struggling real estate market,
offer little if any tax relief to anyone except corporations, and eliminate the remaining deductions
that the poor and middle-class most benefit from. It isn’t populist, won’t
help the economy, and it certainly won’t make things any better for the
majority of citizens… The Stupid Party
mantra regarding the lower corporate tax rate is that this will “create jobs”
and an incentive to give pay raises to employees…
True tax reform would start with auditing and abolishing the Federal
Reserve, and adopting an honest money system that isn’t based on fractional
lending, or more bluntly counterfeiting. “Our”
debt belongs to the bankers, and isn’t our responsibility. It should be
repudiated.
Our spending should reflect
American interests, as candidate Trump stressed repeatedly, but President Trump
has ignored. Rebuild the infrastructure.
Bring all the troops home and stop starting pointless wars. Guard the borders
and deport illegal immigrants. End the foreign visa work programs. America
First and all that.
So there you have it, the GOP’s latest tax scam plan is
designed to further enrich the banks and Wall Street on the backs of the middle
class, the elderly, children and the infirmed.
Paul Ryan and the GOP’s real plan has always been the same, the Final
Solution for America, death by a trillion tax cuts. Now Ryan and the GOP can collect their blood
money and retire their flag lapel pins, they have served their Wall Street
masters and themselves well. Trillions
stolen from the Treasury by Wall Street and no cop on the beat. This is Paul Ryan and the GOP’s Final
Solution, death to America.
By Patricia Baeten
