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I take exception to Mary calling these senators "clowns". This is an insult to the theatrical profession. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Emmett Kelly, and Carol Burnett are clowns. They showed us what we are but make them think it's them.
As far as the rich not paying taxes, you are right. Ms. Helmsley was right "Only poor people pay…
I take exception to Mary calling these senators "clowns". This is an insult to the theatrical profession. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Emmett Kelly, and Carol Burnett are clowns. They showed us what we are but make them think it's them.
As far as the rich not paying taxes, you are right. Ms. Helmsley was right "Only poor people pay taxes" much as she is disliked she was right.
For those who are not tax experts but would like information written for the newspaper reading scholars, I recommend the following books. Some are dated but the theme is the same.
1963, Philip M. Stern's The Great Treasury Raid, Random House
1973, Philip M. Stern's , The Rape of the Taxpayer, Random House
198? , Donald Barlett and James Steele, America: Who really Pays the Taxes?
2001, David Cay Johnston, Perfectly Legal.
All except Stern won the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting.
Shakespeare said there is no theatre without an audience, The truth is there, Learn and share.
Your first paragraph = LOL. (I actually thought the same but moreso that "clown" was HARDLY the word to describe these despicably corrupt, self-serving, traitorous leeches.)
They are "killer clowns", since their actions are "killing" us all!
The best humor has some truth in it, not the lies seen from certain wingers. Lies are not funny, they are destructive, and harmful.
J. David Reno ; Leona Helmsley may have been right, but her actually gloating about it was the real insult.
Agreement!
I appreciate your taking exception on slandering clowns. But, may I point out the Q-publicans are laughing up their collective sleeves? Besides, court jesters were among the >original< clowns!
Court jesters were beneficial.
Clowns? How frequently, supposedly, did Barnum say, long ago, that suckers were born? And the population is much larger now https://medium.com/skeptikai/the-real-story-behind-the-quote-theres-a-sucker-born-every-minute-1db9a7220d34
Mitch; it is my understanding what Barnum said was "There's a customer born every minute". His detractors may have invented the "sucker" quote. See The Quote Investigator. it is less known Barnum made his fortune and than endowed Tufts University where the skeleton of Jumbo stood for many years. My sister is a Tufts alumnus.