Who’s Happy About The Tax Bill?
by Spocko
I’m depressed. Watching a video of a conservative focus group making excuses for why they are voting for Roy Moore pushed me, an emotionless Vulcan, to the edge. I needed help. I needed to see some videos of happy people to cheer me up.
So I went looking for videos of people who were happy about the future. Somebody must be, right?
Maybe there were videos of the the people who wrote the Republican bill that restructured our tax code. Surely those people are happy.
I figured I would find videos of lobbyists talking about how happy they are with the part of the bill they wrote and got inserted into the bill.
But which ones? I had over 6,200 to chose from.
“In all, 6,243 lobbyists have been listed on lobbying disclosure forms as working on issues involving the word ‘tax’ through the first three quarters of 2017, according to Public Citizen’s analysis of a massive data download provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org)
Vox says the big four corporate lobbyists were, Comcast, Microsoft, Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris), and NextEra Energy. Maybe NBC has video of Comcast lobbyists popping champagne and explaining how the tax bill is good news for the network. But I couldn’t find any.
Maybe someone identified the lobbyist who hand wrote the page that Elizabeth Warren talked about in this video.
I couldn’t even find the name of the person, let alone a video of them happily explaining their success getting their change into the bill. My Google fu had failed me.
Maybe it would help me to find out who these people are, why they are doing what they are doing and what they believe. Out of those thousands of lobbyist I’ll bet there are a bunch that are working for the people. Environmental lobbyists. Lobbyists working to make sure the tax code doesn’t hurt widows and orphans.
The Vox story points out NextEra Energy lobbied to keep solar energy credits. That seems like a good thing to fight for. If I looked hard I could probably find a story about lobbyists who help people other than the super rich. What if we found out that 20% percent of them are lobbying for good causes?
What if I found out that the good lobbyists messed up the bill on purpose, causing it to be delayed, so the truth of the bill would come, therefore out scuttling it. Wouldn’t that be great?
But I couldn’t find that any of that. So instead here is a video of happy women singing a Christmas song. Merry Christmas!