The Best Tax Plan Money Can Buy

 

Looks like the Republicans' new tax bill's a done deal.

It will give big corporations licenses to steal.

They get permanent relief for sitting on their butts;

Middle class gets screwed, again, with temporary cuts.

Corporation leaders have no plans to reinvest;

They've said that they'll buy back stocks and pay down interest.

No new jobs or higher wages on the drawing board.

Still, they'll get a tax break that the country can't afford.

Bernie Sanders called it "looting..." I tend to agree.

Debt grows by a $1,000,000,000,000.00.  (Trillion, with a T.)

GOP says wealth will "trickle down" and help the poor

Even though that's never worked when we've tried it before.

I fear it's too late to stop it... Pointless to resist,

Since the wealthy donors to Republicans insist

That, if they don't pass this bill, the money well runs dry.

Now they'll get the best tax cuts their lobbyists could buy.

Sick AND Tired

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I'm so sick of Washington, D.C.; I'm not alone.

Congress is perceived as something corporations own.

Politicians advertise so voters know their name;

It takes lots of money for the "buy-in" to the game.

Those who have a stake in how a vote is gonna go

Know that politicians, for the right amount of dough,

Take the time to listen with a great amount of tact;

Granting them a say in laws that Congress will enact.

Lobbyists and politicians use revolving doors;

Picking which new bills get heard on House and Senate floors.

Leaving the majority, who cannot spare a buck,

Without any power and completely out of luck.

Boycotting Burger King

If corporations are people they aren't very patriotic people.

Burger King bought "Timmy" Hortons.  It's Canadian.

Picture Dunkin' Donuts, multiply by Starbucks, then

You will get a good idea of just how big they are...

So Canadian, their founder was a hockey star.

In what's known as "tax inversion" Burger King can claim

They, too, are Canadians.  Although that's pretty lame;

U.S. taxes corporations with headquarters here

On the worldwide profits that those corporations clear.

Other countries tax on profits companies make there.

Now big corporations all buy businesses somewhere

Taxes aren't as high as here. ('though Burger King has said

That is not the reason they've climbed in Tim Hortons' bed...)

Maybe not.  Yet, still, the consequences are the same

And they're just the latest in this tax evasion game.

There are calls to boycott them; their move will make us broker...

But I'd be a hypocrite because I am a smoker.

Here in Massachusetts, cigarettes are twice the price

Of New Hampshire's cigarettes; they take a smaller slice.

Still, at least they get a piece; the Bay State? None at all.

Me boycotting Burger King would take a lot of gall. 

Corporations Aren't People

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Companies and banks are finding justice is for sale.

Corporations, unlike people, do not go to jail.

13 died before GM admitted any fault;

Even knowing didn't cause production lines to halt.

If a person ever got convicted of their crime

I will guarantee you that they'd end up doing time.

Banks who circumvent the law to help the bottom line

Know that, if they're caught, the worst they're facing is a fine.

Don't tell me that corporations should have equal rights;

They don't face the penalties we do in legal fights.

All they have to do is pay us off - we let them walk...

Put a CEO in prison first, and then we'll talk.