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There is an interesting parallel to be drawn from Bobby Jindal’s less than earth shaking tax plan in which he advocates raising taxes on the poor (in apparent violation of his Grover Norquist no-tax pledge) while granting even further tax cuts for the wealthy (in harmonious accord with Norquist). https://www.bobbyjindal.com/tax/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100915_MS_TaxPlan%20(1)&utm_content=&spMailingID=23715672&spUserID=MTI1NzExOTg5NzE1S0&spJobID=660993528&spReportId=NjYwOTkzNTI4S0
For this comparison, we have Earthmother to thank for pointing this out to us:
- Jindal’s tax plan is an overt appeal to the infamous 1 percent, the upper crust of society who have the resources to hire the best tax lawyers and CPAs in order to find as many tax loopholes as humanly possible to fine even more tax breaks.
- Jindal continues to poll around 1 percent in Iowa despite his desperate, often comical, always absurd attempts to draw attention to himself in his ludicrous effort to gain traction.
- Ergo, Jindal’s tax plan is obviously designed to appeal to the 1 percent in Iowa who favor his candidacy.
News flash, Bobby: 1 percent’s not going to cut it any more than your giving away state hospitals is going to solve the state’s health care problems.
One percent’s not going to get you elected any more than your repetitive cuts to higher education are going to help students struggling to pay higher tuition.
Bobby, you are on a fool’s errand and you’re either too stubborn to admit you don’t have a chance, or you’re blinded by unbridled ambition, delusional….or just stupid.
Your propensity to have—and worse, your willingness to offer to the world—your opinion on every subject, trivial or important, with or without basis (mostly without), long ago grew insipidly thin.
And still you persist.
You persist in saying that there should be no hyphenated Americans and you persist in saying immigration without assimilation is invasion and that those entering this country should learn our language and go to work.
I guess that shows that nothing has changed much over the past 523 years.
Today (Monday, October 12) is Columbus Day, so let’s examine what his arrival meant to the natives of North America. When Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, he wrote to the king and queen of Spain that he found natives who “love their neighbors as themselves” whose manners were “decorous and praiseworthy.”
He also wrote, according to Dee Brown in his book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee that the indigenous people should be “made to work, sow and do all that is necessary and to adopt our ways.” Columbus even kidnapped 10 of the friendly San Salvador native Taino tribesmen and carted them off to Spain so they could be introduced to the white man’s ways.
One of them died soon after arriving in Spain but not before he was baptized, sending the Spaniards into a state of religious euphoria in the knowledge that they had made it possible for the first Indian to enter heaven.
As a diplomatic expression of their willingness to assimilate, other European explorers who followed Columbus looted and burned villages. They kidnapped hundreds of men, women and children and sold them into slavery. In a generation, the Europeans had ravaged the island, killed the vegetation and its inhabitants—natives, animals, birds and fish—and turned San Salvador into a wasteland…and then they abandoned it.
How’s that for assimilation, Bobby?
The most outrageous utterance in a long string of outrageous utterances, however, was his unsolicited opinion concerning the recent mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/louisiana-gov-bobby-jindal-defends-comments-blaming-oregon/story?id=34403499
“The killer’s father is now lecturing us on the need for gun control and he says he has no idea how or where his son got the guns,” Jindal wrote in yet another of his inane op-eds. “Of course he doesn’t know. You know why he doesn’t know? Because he is not, and has never been in his son’s life. He is a complete failure as a father, he should be embarrassed to even show his face in public. He’s the problem here.”
Well, Bobby, let’s examine your record, particularly your last term. You have not and have never been in our lives. You have spent the entirety of your last four years in Iowa. When you weren’t there physically, you were there in spirit, there in your far-fetched, ambitious, implausible dreams.
You have been a complete failure as a governor, a leader, and an inspiration to 4.6 million citizens of Louisiana. When you were elected, you carried the hopes and dreams of a better Louisiana into the governor’s office. You promptly discarded those hopes and dreams in favor of an unrealistic pursuit of your own impossible hopes and dreams.
You should be embarrassed to even show your face in public in Louisiana, much less choose to build your post-political home in Baton Rouge.
In short, you’re the problem here.
But hey, don’t sweat it, Bobby. You still have an unshakable lock on your 1 percent.
Louisiana Voice 
Thanks for a great article. They must teach in Politics 101 something called a Path to Victory, but Jindal must have been absent that day, if he even took the course. Jindal has no path to victory. He could carry Iowa with 100% of the vote and that still is not a path to victory.
Jindal’s poll numbers, be they state, national, straw, or whatever, have more one’s and zero’s than the binary code.
We all (reluctantly) acknowledge that Jindal is no fool. So why does he do and say what he does? It’s certainly self-serving but for what? That bothers me. What does Bobby have in mind as his next target? It will not be in the best interests of the 99%, so what is it? We must remain vigilant and keep the world at large posted as to the danger of an unbridled Jindal.
I agree with you and Earthmother: As she has previously stated, piyush is pathetic and is now the premier spokesperson for the party of Stupid.
I will make two comments:
You said “Bobby, you are on a fool’s errand and you’re either too stubborn to admit you don’t have a chance, or you’re a slave to blind ambition….or just stupid.” You reported several years ago that one of jindal’s middle school teachers observed that he is incapable of admitting that he has made a mistake. He IS a slave to his blind ambition and is incapable of admitting that his efforts to become POTUS, his ambition since high school as you also reported, is a pathetic mistake.
You said: “You have spent the entirety of your last four years in Iowa.” My memory is that he has spent the entirety of the last EIGHT years in Iowa, other early primary states and anywhere else he thought he could help his POTUS ambitions.
I said the last four years as a way of giving him the benefit of the doubt—something he has never done for those who disagree with him.
I think Piyush knows he doesn’t have a chance of being the nominee but is angling for either a veep slot, a position at some Republican think tank or possibly even (shudder!) a show on Fox News.
I’m hoping for Faux News. Then I can shut him off forever!
The real problem here are those who elected him in the first place and then re-elected him four years later. The only reason to continue to analyze and expose him is in some hope of enlightening the electorate of this state, but I confess that I am skeptical.
I agree with Suzanne. Until the voters that stubbornly elected Jindal twice come to the realization that they,too are responsible for our Louisiana mess, we will continue down the road of pretending that they can continue to vote Republican and everything will turn out OK. Especially, after that pesky President Obama is gone.
Don’t forget Suzanne how low the turnout was for that election. Tom can probably rattle those numbers off, but I do recall reading that the turnout was very low. I don’t think the Democrats really put up much of an effort to oppose him.
As much as Jindal’s droning on about his inane “solutions” annoys me, I say, let him keep talking – just to remind LA voters how we got into the economic mess we are currently in & get them thinking how we can avoid making the same mistake twice. As Vitter tries to tie JBE to Obama, the ties between Jindal & Vitter & Grover Norquist & the Koch Bros & the rest of the big money from out of town are right there for everyone to see. We all need to keep doing whatever we can to help our friends & neighbors to see the shell game. I am optimistic that a majority of LA voters will elect John Bel Edwards our next governor. that will be a start to finding some real solutions to our many problems.
Google Catherine Rampell who wrote a column last week in the Washington Post about our absentee governor. Title is “Jindal out trumps Trump” and is about his tax plan, which apparently will create a deficit greater than Trump’s. anncoco
Yes, it would increase the federal deficit by $9 trillion (TRILLION) over a decade. His national plan is essentially the same as his state plan – strangle the budget by creating deficits. Don’t attempt to make rational cuts in spending. Just ratchet revenues down and force everything into mediocrity and/or failure subtly enough that most people don’t notice until it’s too late. In other words, create a dishonest budget and let the chips fall where they may. A great plan, right?
With one exception: Defense. He would never cut spending for the Pentagon, which is used to prop up the military industrial complex.
“Deficit?!”
“There is no evidence, nor any economic theory, behind the proposition that federal government spending ever needs to match federal government tax receipts over any period, short or long.”
http://moslereconomics.com/2009/02/20/galbraithwraymosler-submission-for-february-25/
“If you look back to 1776, the federal budget has run a continuous deficit except for 7 short periods. The first 6 of those were followed by depressions—the last time was in 1929 which was followed by the Great Depression.”
Teaching the Fallacy of Composition: The Federal Budget Deficit
The real harm comes from economic rents –
Incorporating the Rentier Sectors into a Financial Model
See also –
The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy (PDF)
I know this is a bit out of context with what you’ve written, but it helps to know what is actually happening structurally so we know how we’re being deceived.
I do not disagree with anything you’ve posted. However, keep in mind Jindal has explicitly stated his intention to strangle the federal budget by starving it of revenue (a la Reagan, to whom he gives no credit, btw). That is essentially what he has done to the Louisiana budget. Our state laws and our state constitution specifically prohibit deficit spending unlike the federal laws that allow deficit spending and borrowing to cover operational costs -. There is a distinction between borrowing money to cover the federal deficit and simply budgeting more expenditures than revenues with no plan as to how to cover the difference as has been the case in Louisiana.
@Stephen Winham
“However, keep in mind Jindal has explicitly stated his intention to strangle the federal budget by starving it of revenue…”
“That is essentially what he has done to the Louisiana budget.”
Understood. That makes it all that much easier to privatize.
“There is a distinction between borrowing money to cover the federal deficit and simply budgeting more expenditures than revenues with no plan as to how to cover the difference as has been the case in Louisiana.”
Yes. There’s an inherent difference between federal and state/local governments in that the federal is the sovereign issuer and not constrained by revenues. State and local governments are, like individuals, dependent on that emittance into the economy for tax revenue and this is the point that needs to be made. Else we all will end up like Greece.
I think I will keep this one for a while….if it appears to have good information, I might sign up.
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Great article, great comments! .Do not be afraid. Jindal and his 1% will always be with us, they have the most camels and dinars. The best thing to overcome our fears, ignorance and prejudices, is EDUCATION, but then we gotta apply that “learning” and stand up to Jindalites(Republicans, mostly in the South), and let them buy many AR -15, and promote hate instead of love. I just feel sorry for Jindal’s kids and his idiotic parenting skills, but his term as governor will always be deemed successful with the 1%. He has privatized so much that he will always have a job at the Family Research Council or some other woody Jenkins hate group. ron thompson
Statistics don’t lie.
S.
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