Republicans back dangerous legislation like this tax bill because they genuinely believe that poor people deserve their poverty and all its accompanying suffering. 1/
Trickle-Down economics, which has never worked, is based on principle that those who are wealthy obviously know best what to do with money, which is absurd. 2/
Wealthy people know best how to game the system in their favor. That's it. They've dammed up the American economy, and this bill just throws more dam at the problem. 3/
Republicans refuse to believe it's a corrupt system, that it's been corrupted, and so they think people who are poor must have done something to deserve their plight. 4/
This perspective has tainted literally everything the party has done. They fail to see that poor people are victims of a tilted system instead of lazy, awful people who don't deserve their help. 5/
Because poor people are lazy and deserved of their poverty, Republicans think it's dangerous to trust them with money or tax cuts. Thus, the system becomes even more tilted, leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy. 6/
The general message is "look how poor people STILL don't get ahead" while the deck is stacked further and further against them. 7/
These tax cuts the GOP are going to pass won't help anyone but the bottom lines of corporate shareholders and executives who might as well cash the checks for their bonuses. 8/
The problem now isn't that corporations need more money, it's that they have plenty and won't pass the money down like the system is supposed to encourage. 9/
This happens because corporations have to always increase their profits every single year. A single quarter of loss starts the alarm bells, so you can't possibly share the wealth, you have to continue squeezing employees and adding to the coffers. 10/
Poor people continue to get shafted while Republicans look at them from the top of the tilted system and ask why they never climb up, therefore, it's time to tilt the board a little more. 11/
The result is an ever-widening wealth gap that institutes austerity on workers while their bosses and money-changers get perpetually richer. That's what's being voted in today. 12/
And this is the defining vision of the Republican Party. Beatings will continue until morale improves. The game will be tilted until you can climb up and join us and help to further the tilting. 13/13
