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Facebook Doodlings…Reading it Off the MSNBC TelePrompTer To Prove My Point

A good friend of the Grok recently shared my post on how Tax reform is not just about money; it is about trust. He posted it as a status update on the Closed Group ‘Brookline NH Elections’ on Facebook. He got this response.

Keith F. Thompson: “The tax cut for ordinary Americans is temporary, while the tax cuts for corporations and the very wealthy are permanent. “Average” Americans have already seen their tax cuts disappear like vapor. Inflation, cuts in services, a MASSIVE increase in the deficit, and now, chaos from this maniacal trade war. My tax cut was smaller, and didn’t survive the rise in gas prices.”

Here’s what I offered in response.

RelatedTax Cuts in Every Congressional District in Every State

Keith is repeating all the liberal narratives verbatim. It’s like he’s reading them off the teleprompter at CNN or MSNBC. But I’ll play. Keith. I’m wondering how ‘gas prices’ that were significantly higher for years under Obama with no tax cut to” swallow them up” affected your ‘fiscal’ life?

And did you know that the Republican Congress already has a bill in play to make those tax cuts permanent, though I can’t imagine that would matter to you when you are convinced they are meaningless? Why bother, right? Is that why Democrat leadership and a media that pimped the “make them permanent” narrative isn’t proposing to make them permanent?

Or is it because, like you, when it comes to spending money, they have more trust in politicians and bureaucrats in Washington DC than in you or your neighbors?

The point of the original article was that “some people” do not trust you or I to spend the money we earn on their priorities. To address this “issue,” they ask the government to take it from us and direct it toward their priorities. In some cases the priority is themselves. They then use rights they would happily deny the people they are taxing to justify the plunder and to support the people and the institutions doing the taking and the spending.

Keith appears to be one of those people.

The opportunity for “Keith Reform” is not beyond possibility but at this point, the best we can hope for Keith is that he just doesn’t realize what he is doing. That he is the classic “fellow traveler” often referred to colloquially as a useful idiot. He hasn’t thought it through for himself.

Should he deny that circumstance then we must take him at his word and accept that his part in the play is deliberate.

He does not trust you to spend your money on his priorities, which is precisely the point I was making.

Thanks for proving me right.

Related: Tax Reform Is Not Just About Money. It’s About Trust. And Democrats Don’t Trust You.

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