The Ohio House will probably vote this week on the state's two-year budget. After bingeing on Whip-Its and Jager-Bombs, House Republicans added their two-cents-worth. Among their "improvements":
Permits breweries to hand out free samples. (Very shrewd. The more we drink, the less we pay attention!)
Gives every possible advantage to for-profit charter schools, and encourages their proliferation (even if they're currently fucking up).
Prohibits the Ohio Consumers Council from "taking a position contrary to development of competitive utility markets." Translation: Sit down, shut up, and let utility companies maximize their profits.
And my favorite -- Eliminates Ohio's estate tax. Gone. History. No mas.
Republicans believe the estate tax drives wealthy Ohioans out of the state. And that's just so true, you know. Just a few weeks ago, I was travelling and I encountered a caravan of millionaires fleeing Ohio, bound for Florida. They had circled their limousines and were encamped for the night in hostile Tennessee territory. Such a sad sight.
“The whole premise of being a Republican is that somewhere in the middle of the night some poor person has a dollar that some rich man deserves,” K.O.
ReplyDeleteNot many say it better than K.O. As one of my old friends put it, "Very few people have enough money to be real Republicans."
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great comment!