Finally, (this one is key) don't be hitting them up for any share of their wealth. The promise of "gifts for above" decidedly does NOT include money -- at least not any of their money.
The Pumpkin Patch People are repeatedly warned that taxing the Great Ones is like spraying their entire pumpkin patch with herbicide. Then who will be left to shower them with gifts?
So each election the Pumpkin Patch voters ever so sincerely tend their anti-taxation victory gardens, vying with each other to be the most sincere anti-goverment, anti-regulation and, above all else, anti-tax Patcher. .
And so, beginning with the prophet Ron, The Great Ones got their tax cuts. Then they got more, then yet more. Hope among the Pumpkin Patchers has been, Linus-like -- unwavering. Even though, year after year after year, The Great Ones fail to deliver. And, rather than being showeredd with gifts for their unflagging sincerity, the Pumpkin Patch folk -- and everyone else for that matter who -- get nothing but another year older and deeper in debt.
In fact now millions of them can no longer tend their garden plots, since they've been repossessed by their lenders.
And those "well-paying jobs" that were part of the deal? Well, apparently there are far more sincere Pumpkin Patchers in China and India, because they got those jobs instead.
Then, as tax revenue dropped like a baby grand piano tossed off the Empire State Building, the nation found itself -- buried in trillions, upon trillions, upon trillions of dollars of debt -- owed mostly to those countries that proved to The Great Ones that they more-sincerely believe in letting The Great Ones be Great Ones -- no matter what.
So, what do the Great Ones have to say about their failure to deliver to their domestic Patchers? Well, of course, it's our own fault. We have simply not shown a sufficient degree of sincerity. Taxes are still too high, they whine. Cut them even more and The Great Ones assure us they will -- eventually -- appear. Refuse to cut taxes again, they warn, and The Great Ones will never appear trickling down gifts upon them like golden showers.
And- believe it or not -- a shockingly large number of Pumpkin Patchers, even those now newly impoverished, are back out in the fields this October, pitchforks in hand, ever-so sincerely working to please The Great Ones with a fresh round of tax cuts.
Which inevitably reminds me of another Peanuts character, Lucy. Lucy was is Karl Rove in drag. Because if Lucy knew anything, she knew a sucker when she saw one. And American conservative voters are USD Choice suckers,
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