OK, What’s Up with the AFP?

Submitted by Lily O Lady on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 3:25pm

My husband received a mailer today from Americans for Prosperity. You know the roots of the Tea
Party founded by Charles H. and David Koch. That Americans for Prosperity.

So much imagine my surprise when I read the mailer. It begins:

TAX LOOPHOLES ARE LIKE ZOMBIES . . .
THEY JUST WON’T DIE

It goes on to say:

62% of Americans believe the economy is rigged—and they’re right!

There is a superscript “1” after this second quote but no indication what it refers to. Next comes the meat of the mailer:

* Special interests get billions of dollars in special handouts called “tax extenders”

* Tax extenders expired in 2017, but special interests are trying to bring them back from the dead

Further down it says that it’s paid for by Americans for Prosperity. You know, the shambling zombie created by the Kochs. It then urges that we contact our US Congressional Representative, Drew Ferguson to get him to “unrig the economy.” A url called UnrigTheEconomy.com is provided.

I can’t help but wonder how such big economy-riggers as the Kochs want us to help us to help unrig it. There’s something fishy going on, but I can’t figure out what it is. The mailer certainly sounds progressive, which people are more and more attracted to. But the Kochs are anything but. What are they up to. Are they poaching Republicans who might be inclined to support Bernie Sanders.

So I’m open to suggestions. What do you think?

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#Americans for Prosperity

#Koch Brothers

#shenanigans

#tax extenders

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Comments

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 4:40pm

Sure. Let's unrig the economy....

....by:

Making it so kids won't have to be hyper-competitive the moment they leave the womb.
Institute a real Single Payer system that expands Medicare and Medicaid.
Reducing the military budget by 90 percent, ending all US imperialism, closing all overseas bases and rebuilding crumbling infrastructure here
Give the corporate death penalty to any large company that refuses to pay a living wage or provide adequate hours and subsidize smaller businesses that need help with it
confiscating any wealth above 50 million dollars possessed by individuals or families, including from any offshore accounts because as Eisenhower said, no one needs a billion dollars

I'm sure I'm just scratching the surface.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

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Submitted by Lily O Lady on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 5:06pm

I don’t think the Kochs are interested in any of that. They

@The Aspie Corner @The Aspie Corner

do seem to be interested in accruing more and more power for themselves. They have endowed chairs at universities to push their view of things. So how come they say they want to “unrig” the economy?

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

Submitted by jim p on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 10:38pm

Trojan Horse

@Lily O Lady co-opt popular leftish talk; get rightish laws when holding even more power.

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Orwell: Where's the omelette?

Submitted by Snode on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 7:33pm

I like it

@The Aspie Corner keep scratching.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 9:13am

Great list!

@The Aspie Corner I love it!

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

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Submitted by entrepreneur on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 5:50pm

Trying to build support to kill the Federal Solar Tax Credit?

They are definitely up to something. But who knows what it is.

Oh, and electric car tax credits also.

Submitted by Lily O Lady on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 7:14pm

Something evil like that, no doubt.

@entrepreneur

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

Submitted by chambord on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 7:19pm

I read somewhere a few weeks

I read somewhere a few weeks ago that they would be spending on Dems this election season. They probable believe that Dems will come into power in 2020.

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It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Carl Sagan

Submitted by Pricknick on Thu, 06/27/2019 - 9:19pm