Tioga Herald

I have been hearing in the media the reasons why the Trumpty Dumpty tariffs are not working for the community.  What Americans don’t know and what the Democrats are not TEACHING America is how the tariffs imposed by the early U.S. government administrations was to support the development of industries within the USA.  As a fledgling nation, we had little commerce within the nation, so tariffs could put a higher price on products imported while bolstering product development within the nation.  

The Trumpty Dumpty regime does not even have an understanding of what a tariff is about.  Instead they target our enemies and products from nations like China.  WRONG.  It is so haphazard, and then with the attacks on Iran, that it is all blowing up in our American faces while the Chinese are making out quite well.  There have been American-Asian people who have proposed how we can beat the Chinese which have been projected as taking a world leadership role.  

The Democrats had a better grip on what these Asian-Americans have said.  Trumpty Dumpty regime demonstrates how stupid it is and has the lemmings (its base) following the “pied piper” over a cliff in which all America can suffer.  Selective tariffs and all America suffer.  

In effect, a tariff is a value-added tax (VAT).  VAT is used in Europe.  But the tariff is a VAT on imported goods.  We could place an ACROSS THE BOARD VAT on domestic goods, too.  Thus, rid us of the damn income tax which is a regressive tax punishing entrepreneurs who know how to develop this nation.  The Democrats like Kamala Harris made a mistake in not challenging Trumpty Dumpty with a better version of VAT which would include a higher VAT on imported goods, so as to balance our American economy and improve the American GNP.  Instead, the Democrats sliced the word tariff from stem to stern and never brought up the haphazard way Trumpty Dumpty regime was using it.  

For me, I do not oppose the tariff as part of a VAT system.  But I find the Trumpty Dumpty regime to be stupid in its application of it, as Trumpty Dumpty is stupid and chaotic and all other things, too.  

Apparently, there are those who think they are experts and say that “tariff is not a VAT.” Wrong. You add value in the form of a tax to imported products, right? Then a tariff is a FORM of a VAT. PERIOD. I don’t wish to argue that with an expert who is actually a “drip under pressure.” A VAT can be a tax added to domestic products OR on imported products. It is a tax added to PRODUCTS. PERIOD. You want to make it as complex as the stupidity of a complex income tax system, a regressive tax, then go ahead and make it that way. Go ahead and make the U.S. Code a thicker volume with complexity of freaking lousy experts who are “drips under pressure.” Lawyers and accountants and others who think they are experts by writing complexity into the U.S. Code. For me, I am fed up and sick and tired of this complexity, hoping we can simply make one VAT across the board and differentiated ONLY by domestic and import products. Imported product VAT with a higher “value” tax than for domestic. KISS, and not kiss the asses of certain people who want tax this way or that for their own egotistical bullshit reasons and benefit to the selfish self. We are America, a nation of many people, not in selective groups to be catered to and make some happier than others so the bastards can be the only ones who become billionaires and run a dictatorial autocratic oligarchy.

It is sad that I can find no one who takes this perspective on this. So, the complexity and confusion begins. The Man-baby has no idea what it all means. The only benefit seen from his freaking lousy perspective is for the billionaires perspective. And the Democrats are just as stupid. They only look at this from the consumer perspective and come out with an inaccurate assessment. “Tax the rich.” That was how we ended up with the lousy fucking income tax. The income tax code originally took up one page of a newspaper. Today it is written in volumes so as to make benefits for all the myriads of stupid groups in America. We go back and forth with the Robin Hood theory to tax the wealthy at a higher rate. The billionaires then come back to the stupid Citizens United crap which is really nothing but Billionaires United crap. And what happens with this Billionaires United shit regarding the income tax? The REVERSE Robin Hood theory. In comes Trumpty Dumpty who does not know shit about any of this, is portrayed as some “white knight” to save the world and the bastard does not even have the foggiest notion about what he is doing with the tariff.

Once again. KISS. And stop kissing the asses of the billionaire group or the opposite side of the class distinctions. Stop kissing the asses of separate groups, offer H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt and other tax specialists the opportunity to run a VAT for domestic and imported products and stop this damn BULLSHIT we have today. As Warren Buffett said, re-write the U.S Code in a much smaller size rather than the tomes which now exist (to put his statement in a nutshell).

And fuck the Man-baby who only knows how to DESTROY, not re-write and reform it. The Man-baby is an ass-wipe and I determined this a long time ago, back to the 1980s. My perspective on the asswipe Man-baby is NOT based on politics, either, as the paranoid jerk seems to think he faces. He has always been a bigoted prejudiced homophobic asswipe as long as his face has been in the media. I have had enough of his asswipe face in the media.

I hate to end this writing with such a vulgar sour note. But how long do Americans have to put up with the American Fascist Party (aka present-day Republicans) who say, “their way or the highway?” When will decent Republicans who know the foundation of the party with Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Nelson Rockefeller, Everett Dirksen, and others? Decent Americans with a broader perspective on human lives in America, even if you are some asswipe who wants to find SOME imperfection in each one of these guys. I am sick and tired of finding ONE or TWO things wrong. That would also apply to Democrats like Thomas Jefferson, FDR, JFK, RFK, Sr (not the fucking junior), Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. One single imperfection and each one is dead meat in the minds of too many lainbrained idiotic Americans who need an attitude adjustment about ideas of humans being PERFECT when we are not.