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May
22, 2003
Snowball
Effect on a Soggy Economy
Tax
Cuts and Job Creation
By DON MONKERUD
Despite criticism from Democrats and a number
of influential opponents of his new tax cut plan, President Bush
announced that a man was employed as a result of his 2001 tax
cut of $1.35 trillion.
The discovery is expected to stem criticism
that the wealthy were primarily the beneficiaries and the tax
cut did nothing to create jobs.
"This will put a nail in the coffin
of that class war thingie," said the president. "This
proves that tax cuts create jobs and if you pass my tax cut bill
this year, and next year and the next year, pretty soon, there
will be jobs. Of course, we also have to get rid of those pesky
minimum wage problemations to put the righteous to work."
Finding someone employed as a result
of Bush's 2001 $1.35 trillion tax cut came after a year long
search involving the FBI, the CIA, and the Department of Homeland
Security. Although 26,000 agents conducted the hunt, security
officials brushed aside criticism that more important security
problems were ignored. "We can't locate 388,000 criminal
aliens in this country, so this is good practice for us,"
said Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. "I promise if
there are more out there, we'll find them someday. This is not
a waste of time."
Security officials located Jesus Ramirez,
a 33-year-old Mexican immigrant, who obtained his $2.95 an hour
job as a gate guard after 100 homeowners at Trophy House Luxury
Gated Community in Houston, Texas received refunds as a result
of Bush's 2001 tax cut.
"Our families were scraping by on
$350,000 a year and couldn't afford to pay for security,"
said Jimmy Bookmaker, a Halliburton executive and president of
the gated community association, whose motto is "Because
we are better than you." "With tax cuts of $18,000
each, we can finally afford someone to sit in our guard house
and buzz in visitors. You can't imagine the relief we feel."
Touting the trickledown effect of Ramirez's
$180.00 take home pay from his 70-hour weekly paycheck, Treasury
Secretary John Snowjob expects another job to turn up within
weeks. This "snowball" effect will help the "soggy
economy" and pretty soon all boats will be floating, Snowjob
told Fox News on Sunday.
Despite Democratic descriptions of Bush's
newest tax cut as "hogwash," Snowjob pointed proudly
to Ramirez as an example of what it means to be truly American.
"This proves beyond a reasonable doubt that tax relief creates
jobs," Snowjob said. "So what if government debt equals
$70,000 per family? That's only $6.4 trillion dollars. True Americans
worry about security; they could care less about deficits and
other boring stuff."
The discovery of the stimulus effect
from the 2001 tax cut was met with jubilation. In Texas, ultra-conservative
Republican legislators voted to cut taxes and abolish pensions,
medical care, public schools and other "evil" government
programs.
The plan to distribute $20 billion to
the states was praised by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
who looks forward to $3.8 billion in the 2003 tax cut bill to
solve the city's problems. "Getting the federal government
to increase debt so we don't have to raise taxes on our wealthy
citizens is a grand idea," said Bloomberg. "We can
always cut services for the poor who don't vote anyway."
President Bush is pushing his tax cut
plan by meeting with small business owners in Albuquerque, N.M.,
Omaha, Neb., and Indianapolis, Ind., who are planning on taking
advantage of his tax deductions of $87,000 to purchase 6,000
pound, $102,000 SUVs. By making his appeal directly to those
who will benefit from the tax breaks, Bush is exploring new ground.
Until now, administration efforts have
been directed at making people believe that they will be better
off with fewer public services and a massive invasion army. "Everybody
in America wants to be rich and identifies with the rich,"
said Ari Flyswatter, White House spokesman. "Naturally everyone
wants rich people to keep more of their hard earned money so
they can get richer."
When asked about the $400 billion military
budget, the $100 billion a year bill to occupy Iraq and the $300
billion deficit this year, Flyswatter invited newsmen back to
the White House next month when President Bush expects to introduce
two more people who obtained jobs from his 2001 tax cut package.
The End
Don Monkerud is an Aptos, California-based
columnist and author who follows politics. monkerud@cruzio.com
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