An author and investor I have some respect for was writing an article disparaging the new Trump tax plan and was quoting a Representative about the proposal:
"Referring to Trump’s cuts to the federal food stamp program, Rep. Harold Rogers, a Republicans from Kentucky said, “These cuts that are being proposed are draconian. They’re not mere shavings, they’re deep, deep cuts.” Mulvaney says he’s received lots of questions about “compassion”. He says, “Compassion needs to be on both sides of that equation. Yes, you have to have compassion for folks who are receiving the federal funds, but also you have to have compassion for the folks who are paying it.”...
The author then wrote this comment:
"Right? Think of it from the billionaires’ point of view."
This ludicrous opinion has in it the germ of how we are supposed to think. On every question we are to view the discussion from the point of view of the very rich and how the point would impact them, not us. So Zucherberg can give a commencement speech at Harvard filled with apologies and self-abasement over his financial success and call for a universal basic income for all.
How such a notion fits into the concept of a free nation is simply not asked. How the average guy--where the real money is--is going to underwrite it is not asked.
It will be alright. Just "Think of it from the billionaires’ point of view."
The author then wrote this comment:
"Right? Think of it from the billionaires’ point of view."
This ludicrous opinion has in it the germ of how we are supposed to think. On every question we are to view the discussion from the point of view of the very rich and how the point would impact them, not us. So Zucherberg can give a commencement speech at Harvard filled with apologies and self-abasement over his financial success and call for a universal basic income for all.
How such a notion fits into the concept of a free nation is simply not asked. How the average guy--where the real money is--is going to underwrite it is not asked.
It will be alright. Just "Think of it from the billionaires’ point of view."
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