We'll take three

Me after buying my $1000 car

Donald Trump's chief economic adviser and former Goldman-Sachs president Gary Cohn this week noted that with the extra $1000 a year Americans who make $100,000 a year would be getting from Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy, they could buy a new car.

Who knew there were cars coming out that cost $1000?   Hell, we'll take three--my wife has never driven a new car, I haven't driven one since 2003, and our son will be 16 in a couple of years.  After the trade in for our current cars, we'll end up making money and having no car payments!

What's that?  There aren't new cars that cost a thousand dollars?   Well, shit.

Who could have ever guessed that a rich prick in the Trump administration had no clue about the economic realities facing 90% of Americans?

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Blue fish

At twenty-six American corporations last year, their CEOs were paid more than their companies paid in federal income taxes.

Leaving aside the fact that American CEOs, who are truly a dime a dozen and could be replaced by literally thousands of other bozos, or the fact that their psychopathic tendencies, overblown egos, and sheer ineptitude drove our economy into an inexorable abyss which we're still climbing out of...isn't there something inherently wrong about republicans screaming about how high our corporate tax rate is?  Or how we should extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy?  Doesn't this have all the condescension of a "Let them eat cake" moment?

I swear, I hope there's a circle of hell reserved for these assholes where they can spend the rest of eternity spooning actual bullshit into their mouths.

Peace,
emaycee

Could

The key word in this guest commentary on eliminating the personal property tax on industrial equipment is "could"--Mr. Johnston states that with the corporate tax reform enacted last year that eliminating this business tax "could generate 20,000 to 45,000 jobs."

What a load of horseshit.  The business tax cuts enacted last year have created zero jobs in Michigan.  The auto bailout created the ones we have had.  Eliminating the business tax on personal property will also create zero jobs--but services will be cut for Michiganders, our infrastrcture will continue to crumble, and people will continue to leave the state in droves.

This is another in a long line of corporate welfare ploys that results in worse living and working conditions for 99% of us, and only enhance the wealth of those who already have too much.

How many more of these pieces by lying sacks of shit will the Free Press continue to run?  I'm sick to death of being deluged with pro-business bullshit with no alternative pieces while the Free Press thinks it's covering its left flank by publishing pieces by Leonard Pitts a few times a week.

Give me a fucking break.

Peace,
emaycee