Control: Tax Breaks for Me, Please

I, Dalton Lewis, am confused. I don’t know who wins in the war to see who assigns what taxes to whom. Apparently Donald Trump tried to give tax breaks to help poor urban areas, and rich people ended up gaining the most from this policy. Trickle down is real, folks.

Does it work, though? I think every side is a little wrong in this equation. I know that a lot of Donald Trump’s best friends are making money off of this deal. I don’t know if that money trickles down to the rest of us, though. I remember that I had trouble finding a job ten years ago. I don’t have trouble finding a job now: if I ask a temp agency they offer me a job, immediately, based on a short online application. What does that mean?

The economy is fine. I can’t argue that the economy is bad. I can, however, say that the richest one percent of Americans seem to get more than the rest of us, the outcasts, the crazy people, the African-Americans, the people on welfare, the troubled, the uneducated, the people that don’t get everything given to us.

I think that the money should trickle down, but it hurts for the rich to have no taxes for their developments and the actual poor people to be beholden to those rich people. We rely on their good graces. We rely on them to trickle down and spend some of their billions on us. We don’t make it without them.

In the nineteenth century writers crafted stories in which someone started at the bottom of a big company and slowly became the top employee of the company, rising slowly through the ranks because he started out poor but was hardworking and ambitious and good. This was almost always a silly fantasy that would never happen. It’s hard to get out of a poor or mentally ill situation and suddenly make it at something. The chances of that happening in real life were minimal.

I see a lot of people in my life, but few of them are rich. I know a bunch of people who have enough money and would be classified as upper middle class. I know a lawyer out in Seattle who helps billionaires, and he says that they work harder than most people. He also has to work very long hours helping said billionaires.

Money is a stupid concept for losers. I know that we couldn’t function without it, but I don’t care. It’s stupid. I never make very much of it with what I do, and I spend too much on stupid stuff. I think we should banish the concept of money and give everything we can afford to everyone who wants it. We should just try to give everyone all the reasonable things they want. That sounds like a better situation than me, a crazy person, living off of those rich people with all their billions.

Thanks, and take care, friends.