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Letter to the Editor: There’s Always Someone to Blame

Mr. President, Genius, Sir! Absolute genius! I know you hear that a lot, every time you convene a staff meeting or talk to yourself in the mirror, but it is so true it bears repeating one more time: Genius!

The tax reform legislation that you are prodding House and Senate Republicans to pass (your “Cut Cut Cut Act” or is it the “Cut Cut Cut & Keep Cutting Until All This Talk About Russia Goes Away Act”? Never mind. Those wimps Ryan and McConnell named it something else) will be the bigliest, most beautiful tax cut for the really, really, really rich crowd in your social set – paid for, I might add, by your loyal “Deplorables” such as yours truly, and all because you know what we don’t:  We’re losers and you’re a winner! We don’t know what to do with the little money we have, so we might as well give it to you and your friends. We can call it “Winning by Association.”

We won’t even complain when the meager cuts that are written into the code to dazzle and distract us expire a few years from now…or sooner, if Senator Corker gets his trigger. You know us so well, Sir. We’re like children given a shiny toy to play with while you and your pals back the truck up to the door. We’ll even help you load it just for the chance to say “I helped The Donald Make his America Great Again!” What could be better than that?

Some will say, no doubt, that this tax bill will blow a hole in the deficit so large future generations will still be paying for it after Mar-a-Lago gets swallowed in the ocean, but you know us poorly educated supporters of yours don’t know about complicated things like deficits. We’re just happy that you don’t, either. Anyway, if things get really bad, you can always blame it on Obama…or Hillary. The genius of being you, Sir, is that there’s always someone you can blame.

 

Mike Orlock

Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

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