This is the Political Economy that Barack Built (A Mother Axelrod Fairy Tale)
From the Collected Fairy Tales of Mother Axelrod
This is the taxpayer
Who paid for the road that Barack built.
This is the IRS agent
That harassed the taxpayer
That paid for the road that Barack built.
This is the truck that
Ran over the IRS agent
That harassed the taxpayer
That paid for the road that Barack built.
This is the cargo that
Filled the truck that
Ran over the IRS agent
That harassed the taxpayer
That paid for the road that Barack built.
This is the company that
Manufactured the cargo that
Filled the truck that
Ran over the IRS agent
That harassed the taxpayer
That paid for the road that Barack built.
This is the hardworking small businessperson who
owned the company that
Manufactured the cargo that
Filled the truck that
Ran over the IRS agent
That harassed the taxpayer
That paid for the road that Barack built.
This is the public school teacher who gave the class
Taken by the hardworking small businessperson who
Manufactured the cargo that
Filled the truck that
Ran over the IRS agent
That harassed the taxpayer
That paid for the road that Barack built.
This is the administrator who wrote the curriculum
That directed the public school teacher who gave the class
Taken by the hardworking small businessperson who
Manufactured the cargo that
Filled the truck that
Ran over the IRS agent
That harassed the taxpayer
That paid for the road that Barack built.
This is the Department of Education bureaucrat who
Wrote the forms
Filled out by the administrator who wrote the curriculum
That directed the public school teacher who gave the class
Taken by the hardworking small businessperson who
Manufactured the cargo that
Filled the truck that
Ran over the IRS agent
That harassed the taxpayer
That paid for the road that Barack built.
This is the president who
Set the policy
That directed the Department of Education bureaucrat who
Wrote the forms
Filled out by the administrator who wrote the curriculum
That directed the public school teacher who gave the class
Taken by the hardworking small businessperson who
Manufactured the cargo that
Filled the truck that
Ran over the IRS agent
That harassed the taxpayer
That paid for the road that Barack built.
Moral: Â Barack Obama owns everything but if you vote for him or, even better, give a large donation, he might let you keep what he decides is your fair share.
Important note: I didn’t write the above on my own. I couldn’t have done it if President Obama hadn’t made those speeches and Elizabeth Warren hadn’t given him the idea.
This is not satire or fiction.
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I represent the taxpayer who objects to the wholesale avoidance of tax liability of a growing number of Americans, who is tired of having every paycheck witheld taxes because of many Americans who don’t pay their due, who is angry at the corrupt legislature who facilitate tax avoidance by the tax code, who cannot comprehend that 21 trillion dollars may be hiding in off-shore tax havens under and untaxed, who is fed up with the investor class and their insatisable demand for tax preferences, for having to pay by the tax system money to those who work but are not paid enough by their bosses who are raiding the public treasury…
Write some satire about that.
Sung to the tune of Chad Gadyah.
Good one, Barry, but it glosses over a crucial point.
The hapless Taxpayer pays for the road AND the IRS agent, the teacher, the curriculum, the administrator, the forms, the bureaucrat, the policy, the president – PLUS all the public schools and government buildings, equipment, technology, tools, utilities, vehicles, gas and more.
Not funny when Romney keeps his wealth in foreign lands hidden from the public eyes. Of his income he pays twenty five percent to the Mormon church and fourteen percent to the treasury. That goes to show how much he cares about the average Joe. Republicans are the worst offenders in irresponsible public and private finances. They can not be trusted with ypur tax money.