'Every Darn Penny': Chuck Grassley Exposes GOP Philosophy On Death And Taxes

Republican Senator Charles Grassley tells the Des Moines Register his party’s plan for deep tax cuts to the rich “recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”

Perhaps Sen. Grassley is replaying an old record from his youth. “Cigarettes, whiskey, and wild wild women,” sang the Sons of the Pioneers in 1947. “They’ll drive you crazy, they’ll drive you insane.”

So much for that newfound Republican populism we’ve been hearing so much about. So why, Senator Grassley, can’t we all just be rich, like you?

Every Darn Penny

Working people don’t have much to spend on entertainment nowadays, because it takes “every darn penny they have” just to survive. A recent survey found that 78 percent of Americans say they’re living from paycheck to paycheck.

More than one-third said they “sometimes” lived paycheck to paycheck, 17 percent said that “usually” did, and 23 percent – one in four – said they “always” struggled to make it from one payday to the next.

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