A $46 Proposal.

Stacks of cash, but not for you.

One of these fine days you and I are going to get a check from the Party of God.

Maybe for $22. Maybe for $46. Maybe for $111. And you and I are going to get this check from the Republican Party for one reason: Because they think we’re stupid.

Well, stupid whores to be taxonomically correct about it.

And if you are a card-carrying member of that steadfastly loyal, culturally deadlossed mound of abused carbon known as the “Republican Base”, that definition would certainly be apt.

If you are of The Base and have to take off your shitkickers and socks to do ‘rithmatic involving numbers higher than ten, then you are one of that rarified 29% of Bush Boosters that don’t give a shit about any part of this country but that little bit of it that has your stink all over it, and do not give a shit about any human beings but the ones that are directly related to you by blood.

And if you are of The Base, for the usual, sadly-predictable reasons, you actually take a great deal of pride in being a dumbass. You think God blesses and highly favors your state of profound mental underclockedness, and sides with you agin’ alla them smarty smart smartingtons who don’t do their thinkin’ with their tummies and who refuse to recognize George W. Bush as the Almighty’s Choser Driver on the Little Bus Rapture Express.

And you don’t care nuthin’ ‘bout no deficit or debt or whatever the Hell it is them faggy elites are all up in arms about this time.

You don’t care that we are dead-assed broke as a nation, and that to finance our illusion of prosperity, every day we’re borrowing -- from fucking Commies -- more money than God Himself had to front as a down-payment on Eden. That we’re governed by suicidally short-sighted criminals that are mortgaging your mother’s doublewide and children’s futures to international Pay Day Loan companies for enough ready cash to throw a kegger and have the truck detailed.

That we are being galloped into ice that is Great Depression-thin by billionaires and cultists with very ugly plans for your future, and that when the bill comes due for our national binge, it ain’t gonna be their houses that the bank will come for.

It ain’t gonna be their organs they’ll have to sell for groceries and gas.

So since we’re in a debt hole deeper than the Cayman Trench, what’s a better strategy for the Party of Fiscal Responsibility --- whose faded “Balanced Budget Amendment or Death” bumper stickers are still visible on the chrome asses of their Escalades…

…than a crazy shitload of new Tax Cuts!

Yay!!!

Especially a crazy shitload of new Tax Cuts that only shunt Big Borrowed Money into the pockets of millionaires!

Yay!!!

This from the Chicago Tribune, with a little bit of emphasis added…

Senate Readies to Vote on $70B Tax Cut

By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer
Published May 11, 2006, 7:47 AM CDT
WASHINGTON -- Senators prepared to vote Thursday on a bill awarding tax relief to investors and 15 million taxpayers facing the alternative minimum tax as President Bush and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill anticipated a long-sought election year victory.

The bill providing tax cuts worth $70 billion over five years passed the House Wednesday by a 244-185 vote. The Senate was expected to vote on the bill Thursday, and Bush is eager to sign it.

The legislation provides a two-year extension of the reduced 15 percent tax rate for capital gains and dividends, currently set to expire at the end of 2008.

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The House debate divided starkly along partisan lines, with Republicans crediting the tax cuts, first enacted in 2003, with a surging economy, millions of new jobs and booming tax revenues. Democrats countered that the tax cuts are tilted in favor of wealthy investors, that the economic benefits are not as great as advertised and that they make the budget deficit worse.

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Critics, including most Democrats, attacked the tax rate reductions on dividends and capital gains as being skewed in favor of the rich. They noted that it was the second half of a GOP budget package that began with $39 billion in deficit cuts over five years, many of which came from programs for the poor such as Medicaid.

Democrats also cited a joint study by the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution that shows taxpayers with incomes greater than $1 million per year winning tax cuts of $42,000 under the bill, while families with incomes of $50,000 a year would average a $46 tax cut.

"The Republican Party ... is sending all the millionaires on an all-expenses-paid vacation -- for $41,000 a year," said Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash. "The rest of America is being forced to choose between filling the gas tank or stocking the refrigerator."

Added Richard Neal, D-Mass: "You cut taxes for Wall Street at the expense of Main Street."

Just 15 Democrats joined all but two Republicans in voting for the bill.

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Democrats, I must say, showed remarkable party discipline in staying together on this very calculated wedge issue. One designed as a last minute payday to the Republican’s Corporate Masters, and a campaign slogan -- “Democrats think our soldiers in Iraq, poor children, sick and dying elderly, Washington bureaucrats need your money more than you do.” -- for the upcoming GOP Congressional Beatdown.

And in case you were wondering why they didn't “Stand up for this one” or pull some parliamentary hoodoo out of their Sorting Hats, you need to get ahold of the latest edition of “Congressional Loophole Magazine”.

For tax cuts under $70 billion, no filibusters or stalling or suchlike are allowed. Rangel could have set his hair on fire, and Pelosi could have done the Electric Slide, nekkid, in the Well of the House, and it still would have come down to a straight up-or-down vote. Period.

Just to be crystal fucking clear about this, the surpluses left behind by Evil Liberal Bill Clinton are looooong gone and Unka Dubya’s Wild Ride (now in its 5th year) has left us a beggar nation in debt up to our nips, trying to dogpaddle with an anvil in each hand.

Which mean the seventy billion dollar giveaway -- of which you and I are getting $46 apiece -- has been borrowed.

So we have just borrowed seventy billion dollars. From Communist China. In order to give it away in $42,000 increments to millionaires who are already swimming in tax cuts.

Seventy billion dollars on which we and our children will be paying the interest and principle for the next generation, even as we pay off Dubya’s Iraqi Debacle, Dubya’s Katrina Debacle, Dubya’s Great Halliburton Loot-Fest, Dubya’s 39 billion dollar gift to the HMO/Insurance industry, etc ad nauseum.

With interest.

Compound interest.

So, in what Universe is this not simply criminal and criminally insane?

Under what Foundational Principle could anyone possibly justify yet another round of job-lots of cold cash doled out to the richest humans in history while the country is in debt and at war?

There is no excuse for this whatsoever -- no matter how you warp it, or how many mitigating, qualifying adjectives you pack around it -- other than the ones that stare Republican Moderates square in the face every day of their cowardly lives.

The ones from which they expend so much psychic effort and Limbaugh decibelage desperately trying to hide.

The self-evident reasons the Moderates are so absolutely fucking terrified are true that they would much rather lose a limb, or a Constitution or a nation before ever allowing a syllable of doubt to enter their minds or escape their lips.

That their Party finally has only two wings: the Corporatists that are hoping the skeeze out another quick round of looting and secure lucrative lifeboat accommodations before the ship goes down altogether and fuck you and me and the losers trapped in steerage...and the Destructors who deliberately sank the ship.

Who have, in fact, worked for thirty years to sink the ship. Who ache and scheme for a lawless land. Who think the end of the world is a pretty fine idea.

(And then, or course, there’s McCain; waiting in those Wings to snag loonies and independents who’ll be on the rebound once the Glorious System Crash turns out not to have been such a universally splendid idea, and Jesus never shows up the settle the tab. McCain, who is gambling that if he just wraps himself tightly enough in alternating layers of flag and Pine-Sol, no one will notice that he positively reeks of Dubya’s ass-crack and Jerry Falwell’s musky man-perfume.).

So my humble suggestion for what to do when you get your sofa change orts from the orcs who are laying waste to the future?

Send it off immediately to the Democratic candidate of your choice.

Start now.

Pick one in a dog-fight.

Send him or her a note that might say something like;

Dear ____________,

I am a proud American and not a whore, so please use the enclosed check to help defeat the Party that thinks they can treat me like one.

It is in the amount of my share of the despicable, $70 billion “tax cut” for millionaires the Republican Party just passed using borrowed money.

Please use the enclosed check to help defeat the Party that insists on mortgaging my nation and my children’s future to make the rich incrementally richer.

I cannot be bought off with blood money, so please use it to do some good.

Sincerely,

C'mon, it’s only $46 bucks.

And the thing is, now I know you’ve got it.