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egbertowillies

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Mon Nov 27, 2017, 04:02 PM Nov 2017

Trump team playing like fools to fool you into accepting a tax cut scam

This morning I read Robert Reich's piece titled "Fools or Knaves" that details the Trump administration machination to pass their tax cut scam. They intend to do so even though all the experts know it will decimate the middle-class in a few years, explode the debt, and cause the onset of interest rate hikes.

Reich starts his article with an essential truth about truth and those who corrupt it.

One of the most dangerous consequences of this awful period in American life is the denigration of the truth, and of institutions and people who tell it.

There are two kinds of liars – fools and knaves. Fools lie because they don’t know the truth. Knaves lie because they intend to mislead.


I will be honest; I had to look up the word "knaves" as it was absent from my vocabulary. Reich went on to point out that all prestigious nonpartisan organizations who studied the Trump tax cut scam say it would raise taxes on those making $75,000 or less a few years after its inception. But the lower taxes for business and the wealthy remain. In other words, the Trump tax cut scam is genuinely a tax cut scam.

https://egbertowillies.com/2017/11/27/trump-playing-fools-tax-cut-scam/
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