Politics Becomes Social Media Content for the GOP.

I used to think that the whole point of getting elected to Congress was to go to Washington and vote on laws that we needed in order to fix things, or make things better, or some other good government thing like that.

Which didn’t mean that everyone always had to agree on which laws needed to be changed because the whole point of a democracy is to give everyone an opportunity to shoot their mouths off whether anyone agrees with them or not, right?

Which is why I have no problem, or until this new Congress had no problem with the House majority going from blue to red, because the Blue Team will get another chance to change things within a few years, so I’ll just sit back and wait.

That was how I felt until this morning, when I read the details of a new bill, The Fair Tax Act, that is evidently headed for a House vote thanks to sponsorship by at least a dozen members of the GOP caucus, with certainly more sponsors about to sign up.

Among other things, this measure would eliminate all federal taxes both on individual and corporate income, eliminate payroll taxes and abolish the IRS. The entire federal budget would be funded by what in Europe is called a value-added tax, but what we call a sales tax, which would increase the cost of everything we buy.