Listening to the debt ceiling talks, I have become confused about what is a tax and what is everything else. The Republicans are resorting to semantics in an effort to protect their jobs. My confusion stems from this. Why is it a tax increase when we take away corporate welfare, in the form of tax breaks and subsidies and yet when we increase the co-payments for Medicare and Medicaid recipients it is not a tax increase it is an increase in the co-payment. The Republicans are more then willing to increase "fees or co-payments" for average American but are not willing to eliminate "elite and corporate welfare". Please if anyone can help an old, confused man to understand this, do so. I invite my Republican friends to explain, how this works.
My next area of confusion is, of all things, related to Mr. T. Boone Pickens. Mr. Pickens will never be confused with a liberal and, yes before anyone brings it up, he will make money off of his idea. Contrary to what some believe I am all for people making as much money as they can, just do it legally and pay your FAIR share of taxes. Back to Mr. Pickens. He has proposed that we convert our large commercial trucks from gasoline to natural gas. He also proposes that the Federal Government pays subsidies on this for five years only. The cost to us is one billion a year, for a total of five billion dollars. The payback. Over the next ten years we would save over one Trillion Dollars by not having to import foreign oil to run these vehicles. Pay 5 billion to save over 1 trillion dollars, that is a great return for all of us. Mr. Pickens also supports building wind power plants to replace those using oil. He wants us to re-build our electrical power grid system, using newer and better technology, which will save us again with cheaper and cleaner forms of power. Everyone, including Republicans and Democrats support his proposal, so why the hold up? The Koch Brothers. If you are not sure who they are, read my blog from last week and understand, how these sleazes, control politicians. Pickens has invested into natural gas, wind and other domestic and cleaner industries, so like I stated earlier, he will make piles of money. The good thing is this will benefit our country and all of us. It will create high paying jobs and reduce our dependency on foreign oil. The Koch Brothers and Koch Industries are heavily invested in the status quo. They are pouring money into stopping this. Their concern is for Koch Industries and themselves, not the country or any of the peasants that live here. Again if any of my readers can help lift the vail of confusion that surrounds this, please do so.
Finally, for those that remember the Miller Light commercials from years ago, I am still pondering is it, "Tastes Great or Less Filling". Since I have to work this afternoon, I will not be able to try and solve this problem, that has plagued us for years. So I throw myself on the mercy of my readers to do a taste test today and solve the mystery. Please let me know the results. At least some of my confusion would be cleared up.
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