Louisiana Voice

Col. Bonespurs lost no time in dismissing the idea that the super-rich might be called upon to bear a bit more of the tax burden so as to lift some of the load off the working middle class.

Donald Trump, aka IMPOTUS, responded to hints by some Republicans in the White House had suggested allowing tax cuts to expire for individuals making more than $609,351 or couples making more than $731,201 (those number could only have come from a committee).

But Agent Orange SHOT DOWN that ludicrous suggestion by saying “a lot of the millionaires would leave the country.” He was probably look around to fire the one who suggested it.

Oh, my, that’s almost like the suggestions that Exxon and other oil and chemical plants would leave Louisiana if their taxes were raised (but of course, they didn’t, did they?)

Let’s just admit it, the man’s an economic genius.

But let’s hear the rest of Trump’s logic. “You lose a lot of money if you do that,” he said. “That would – and other countries (it’s always “others say,” “others do” with Trump) that have done it have lost a lot of people.” Of course, he didn’t – couldn’t – name one example. “They lose their wealthy people. That would be bad because the wealthy people pay the tax, ok?”

You mean like the taxes you pay, Mr. Trump? Of like Warren Buffett who once admitted that his secretary pays more in taxes than he does.

On another matter, Ol’ Bonespurs is sucking up to the evangelical right mightily by ramping up efforts to root out what he sees as “ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.”

In fact, the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) has actually appointed its very own task force whose job it is to report colleagues who exhibit anti-Christian bias.

This looks like something that is somewhat antisemitic on its face, not to mention a flagrant violation of the First Amendment. Un-American it is – sorta like the Nazis of 1939 Germany.

Here’s what Bruce Gerencser, who calls northwest Ohio home, and who calls Trump a “Baby Christian,” wrote about all that: “Baby Christian Donald Trump — who spent Easter Sunday honoring the resurrected Jesus by golfing all day (emphasis added) — and his feckless band of Evangelical and Roman Catholic gatekeepers, made it known that his administration will actively go after anti-Christian bias in the federal government. Question: is there anti-Christian bias in the government to start with? No evidence is provided for bias. Christians are absolutely FREE to worship God as they wish. Christian pastors are free to preach whatever they want from the pulpit. Outside of occasional skirmishes over building codes and the Johnson Amendment, Christian churches are left alone, free to preach…”

Speaking of Trump and golf, here’s the TRUMP GOLF-O-METER for you to ponder: