One
hears news reports that the rich will not get any relief under the
new proposed tax bill of President Trump. Given the proclivity to lie
on the part of those who give us our news reports, one should reserve
judgment and not get too excited when we hear initial reports of
what’s going on in Washington. But a little advance consideration
of what we’re hearing can’t hurt.
Discrimination
and prejudice are wrong whether the injured party is rich or poor. So
how can the rich be discriminated against with Trump’s new tax
plan? Have the rich done something wrong that keeps them from
enjoying the same benefits as the rest of the nation? Are they being
punished for working longer and harder than people making less money
or for the purely chance happening that they inherited their wealth?
These don’t seem to me to be adequate reasons to deny them equality
under the law, and it appears to be contrary to all that Americans
hold dear that the federal government would write a law that treated
the rich as though they were second class citizens.
And
what exactly is it that makes a person “rich” anyway? One may
recall that the Clinton/Gore administration determined that a person
making $50,000 a year was “rich” by using the flawed logic that
in 20 years that person would have made a million dollars, so
therefore they are rich while making $50,000 annually, which is
typical liberal illogic.
It’s
highly likely that many Americans making $50,000 to $80,000 a year
would consider the senators and congressmen, the people deciding what
is rich and what is poor, as being rich themselves, and I will
predict right now that our dear legislators will define the
borderline where being rich begins and above which level no tax
benefits will accrue, to be well above their rather inflated
salaries. And it’s a certainty that the cable news talking heads
making six-figure salaries and demanding that the rich not be allowed
to benefit from any new tax law, do not consider themselves to be
rich.
And
as a spark to the economy, consider that if the already-rich were
allowed to get a tax break from any new law, they would possibly buy
a new yacht or a new jet and get rid of the old model, and that new
purchase would create a well-paying job for a union member or a
private builder, and this additional expenditure by a rich person
would benefit all Americans as more jobs were created.
If
the richest and most influential people in the nation can’t get
equal treatment under the new law, what about the rest of us poor
slobs with no influence and no ability to buy the attention of our
legislators in DC? What will we do in a year or two when congress
drops the hammer on us and raises our taxes? We won’t stand a
chance of getting an even break. Therefore, all Americans must be
treated equally.
The
discussion above is based on what is being reported by our news
sources as the plan being developed for tax relief in America. One
hopes this information is wrong and that all Americans are treated
equally and with respect, because the whole idea behind the proposal
of tax relief is to allow the citizens of America to be able to keep
more of the money they earn so they can spend their earnings on
themselves and their families, thereby sending less of their
hard-earned money to the big government swamp in DC to be wasted by
the big-spending officials there.
