The "Is It Paid-For?" Scam

Yankee Nation Democrats and Yankee Nation Republicans sing the same song.  It's called "Is The Tax Cut Paid For?"

One would think that, by this time, the Republicans would be singing a different song than the Democrats.  What is it that they don't understand about it?  "Paying for" a tax cut is simply language which means this: "We're not going to cut programmatic spending in any meaningful way and if we don't steal "x" amount of dollars from the taxpayers we'll divert it from another part of the coffers".

In this way, everyone is happy.  The Yankee Democrats are happy because their Big Brother programs are still ensuring their loyal voters.  The Yankee Republicans are happy because they are duping their constituency into believing that less money coming in means that some program will have to be cut in order to balance the Yankee Nation budget.

Boehner & Company, instead of seizing the opportunity to make some meaningful reduction in the reach of The Empire's tentacles, are singing the Pelosi & Company song of "Is It Paid-For?"  You really can't blame the Republicans for it, I guess.  After all, they're supposed to be Conservatives - aren't they.  They're simply doing what Conservatives have been doing for the last thirty years: conserving that which has been handed to them.

For every wild-eyed spending Democrat who prowls through the halls of the Yankee Congress like Darth Vader, there seems to be his shadow personality of a Republican who is no more than the shadow creature of Anakin Skywalker.   Boehner and Pelosi have played their parts well; very few of their constituents are even aware of the symbiotic relationship that continues to make a mockery of meaningful freedom from their tyranny.

The Vader/Anakin couplet is noting new to the Yankee Nation's powerful and empire-sustaining back room dealing.  It has been going on for many years and the only aspect of it that ever changes is the names inscribed on the cast of characters.

In the case of the empire that is the Yankee Nation, it doesn't need to "strike back".  There is precious little that can stand in its way as it plods ever forward in its breathtaking developmental spurts.  Maybe, someday, someone will ask the Yankee Nation functionaries how the empire got to be so ponderously huge.  As did Topsy, someone will answer: "I expect I grow'd".

Shame upon the empire builders.

Deo Vindice