Apparently eager to not be associated with the kind of people who grow rich by virtue of removing unease from our lives, along with those who grow wealthier by virtue of investing in those striving to remove unease from our lives, the Republicans and their President in Donald Trump are doing cartwheels to ensure that their proposed tax cuts do not reduce taxes on the “rich.” In a fairly predictable move lifted from the political playbooks of the 20th century, the Republicans have essentially washed their hands of people like the late Steve Jobs, along with families with names like Rockefeller and Gates whose wealth made the initial Apple (Rockefeller) possible, along with the revival of the near-bankrupt Apple (Gates) that Jobs returned to in 1997.
As House Speaker Paul Ryan explained it about the GOP's proposed tax plan to Roll Call last week, “We'll introduce the bill, which will have that fourth bracket designed to make sure that we don't have a big drop in income tax rates for high-income people — their bracket is 39.6 [percent] right now — and then we have a middle-class tax cut.” While the Republicans aren't treating the well-to-do murderously as the Bolsheviks did their country's productive class in the former Soviet Union nearly 100 years ago, they've fairly explicitly acknowledged that they'll take whole classes (businesses and entrepreneurs) for granted; all in an attempt to trump their reliably class and color focused opponents in the Democratic Party who regularly walk all over certain voting blocs whose votes they view as a sure thing. Getting right to the point, the Republicans have told the innovators along with the investors in those innovators to drop dead.
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