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.

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. 

Obligations

 

April 15th's coming up - when taxes will be due -

So I don't have time to write a silly rhyme for you.

Hope you have an easy time with filling your forms out.

I, however, find myself about to swear and shout.

Dear GOP... Where Did You Go To School?

Current student debt stands at $1 trillion. (Photo/Occupy.com)

Rates on college student loans could do as much as double...

Meaning current graduating seniors are in trouble.

GOP would tie the rates to markets; experts fear

Their solution could cost kids a thousand bucks a year.

President Obama says he'll veto any move

That does more to harm these kids than it does to improve.

We need college educated people in the States;

Why would we add more financial burdens to their plates?

College can be hard enough without this added debt.

It is in the int'rest of our country that we get:

Future scientists and doctors, teachers, engineers...

Those whose future taxes pay for our declining years.

How are they supposed to pay for us when we get old?

They'll be paying college loans while we're out in the cold.

I think that Republicans should stop and think this through.

Students will remember them when that first bill comes due.