Here begins the odious march of the nickel–nursing nuts who are going to make it their life’s work to gyp people in trouble out of what they need.
Meanwhile, there will be those who make a profit on a disaster, while the political hacks find yet another “reason” for coming up a day late and a dollar short because the victims are too busy trying to survive to fight back. This is the unholy politics of the creeps and cretins who spend their time figuring out how not to spend the money, or worse yet, go crawling around the baseboards of “Government” looking for something else to cut in order to “make up” for having to spend the money, which belongs to the citizens in need in the first place.
It is much worse than that. The House GOP Tax “Reform” Bill is going to screw Puerto Rico out of 250,000 jobs. Which the quoted Big Firm (PwC) accountants interviewed in this article claim the consequence for Puerto Rico will be of the House Bill.
They claim that the impact will be even worse than when Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code was repealed in the 1990s and most of the manufacturing jobs on the Island were taken elsewhere. This began the economic downturn in Puerto Rico. The Pharmaceuticals manufacturing in PR remained after the Section 936 Repeal, because of their highly skilled work force (Baxter, Eli Lilly). But most of the other plants which had set up after WW2 had their Federal Tax incentive to remain in Puerto Rico eliminated. Repeal of 936 was originally proposed by Ronald Reagan and his wonderful Economic Team who vowed to get rid of all the loopholes in the Tax Code.
You have to be able to muddle through Spanish to read this article from yesterday’s El Nuevo Dia. But add this to the profiteering of Ryan Zinke’s neighbor in Whitefish, and the profiteering of Mammoth Energy of Oklahoma. And to the Louis XIV Let them Eat Paper Towels feckless recovery effort of the Russian Mole President.
Typical Rethugliklan A: This shortfall could be made up with a tax cut for golf course owners.
Typical Rethugliklan B: We’ve already done that.
Typical Rethugliklan A: Well, we could make it up with a tax cut for private plane owners.
Typical Rethugliklan B: We’ve already done that too.
Typical Rethugliklan A: Well, I’m out of ideas.
Typical Rethugliklan B: Me too. And I have a fundraiser to attend.
Typical Rethugliklan A: In that case they’ll just have to figure it out for themselves.
Typical Rethugliklan B: Who?
You need to incorporate the geriatric drama queen outrage of Orrin Hatch yesterday when Sherod Brown made the obvious and legitimate point that the Bill is a Blow Job for the top 1% and how he is tired of that fake commie pinko point and how he was lower middle class when he started out in his career of political pandering and fuckery…
Also, see David Cay Johnston, Free Lunch, re owners of golf courses only accessible by airplane. You will love it…