#UpTheAssOfTheMiddleClass
(Haiku on Trump, Congress & GOP Tax Cuts)
“Our grandchildren can’t
Afford to repay one point
Five trillion dollars”
“Tax cuts won’t produce
Jobs and income; they’ll produce
Pain and suffering”
“GOP men just
Need to prove that they have the
Biggest deficits”
“GOP tax cuts
Hurt the poor, help the rich, blow
Holes in the budget”
“Taxes are like a
Country’s wrists; if she cuts them
She will bleed to death”
“Dear Lord, please give three
Republican Senators
Eyes to see the light”
“Disembowelment by
Tax cuts has the same result
As hara-kiri”
“Republicans want
To exterminate taxes;
Daleks run amok”
“There’s no Science in
Political; money and
Lies make shit happen”
“Tax cuts will strap the
Deficit machine across
Our grandkids’ shoulders”
“For the poor, first year
Tax cuts will later become
Painful increases”
“Congress craves tax cuts
For the rich as if they were
Oreo cookies”
“Repeating a lie
Over and over doesn’t
Change it into truth”
“There’s nothing surer
Than the rich get richer and
The poor get poorer”
“Your Medicare and
Social Security: the
Real tax cut targets”
“Cutting taxes won’t
Fix Social Security
But raising them will”
“Republican tax
Cuts are riddled with human
Parasitic worms”
“Tax cut deficits
Get charged to the credit cards
Of your grandchildren”
“Tax reform: you pay
More; corporations and the
Rich pay much, much less”
“Congress doesn’t heed
The call; stands in the doorway
And blocks up the hall”
“Grad students are poor
Taxing free tuition will
Just make them poorer”
“GOP tax plan
Will kill off PhD’s and
Dumb down the workforce”
“Graduate School is
Hard; Republicans will make
It impossible”
“GOP will screw
You for having kids, getting
Degrees, buying homes”
“Republican tax
Cuts take a flamethrower to
Our children’s future”
“Paradise Papers
Reveal that the one percent
Doesn’t need tax cuts”
“GOP wants to
Cut taxes and your children’s
Wrists at the same time”
“GOP panders
To the one percent; wants to
Screw the middle class”
“Real GOP tax
Plan: starve the government, force
Entitlement cuts”
“GOP tax cuts
Meanest and cruelest to the
Most vulnerable”
“The only sure way
To get rich is to marry
A one percent girl”
“Congress behaves like
A harem of concubines
For the one percent”
“With Trump at the helm
The biggest threat to world peace
Is Amerika”
“Congress is a bunch
Of puppets whose strings are pulled
By wealthy donors”
“With Trump driving and
Tweeting, our bus feels more like
A runaway hearse”
“The American
Experiment of checks and
Balances has failed”
“When politicians
Refuse to follow the rules
The system breaks down”
“Very few countries
Have copied America’s
Form of government”
“With FDR and
Lincoln, America lucked
Out; with Trump, not so”
“The Founders didn’t
Foresee Congress as puppets
To wealthy donors”
“If you own a home,
If you get sick, if you have
Student loans, you lose”
“Corporate tax cuts
Won’t go to workers; they will
Go to shareholders”
“GOP tax bill
Same old whore in a new dress
Tax cuts for the rich”
“The fuzzy math of
The Republican tax bill
Means you’re getting screwed”
“Americans need
401k’s and state and
Local deductions”
“You’re smokin’ your socks
If you think corporate tax
Cuts will raise wages”
“When enough people
Understand the truth Congress
Will have to vote no”
“Republicans have
A Gatling gun of tax cuts
To mow down the poor”
Neil Ruddy
11-26-2017
Tags: congress, deficits, haiku, republicans, tax cuts, Trump
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