Running on bluff? In this campaign season, let’s take a look inside the vault.
The Leslie County Grand Jury is reportedly investigating Ukraine, Bidenism, and the underlying reason for the 10 votes a Democrat got in that County in the last election, something nobody can explain. They may not actually do an investigation, but just announcing that they were going to would be a patriotic service to the country. Hunter Biden will have to come to Hyden, or come out from it, one. He might want to stay in Eastern Kentucky. He was so valuable to those natural gas people in Ukraine, he probably could make a living here.
Hunter Biden’s dad, who turned 77 last week but doesn’t look a day older than 75, was joined on the campaign trail by some other old dotards in both parties with not long to live who had better let us know who their Vice President will be. We don’t want to have to use those Ginsburg-worthy medical procedures to keep him alive.
If one of those people in their late seventies, that is the favorites, does win, we will have to use Ginsburg-worthy means to keep him or her alive. Come on Ruth, hold out 13 more months anyway.
The shame is that people who want to buy their way into the White House, the textbook for which was written , probably ghost-written, by or for the Kennedys, are sometimes not able to accumulate tens of billions of dollars until they are fairly old. This country needs to make it so that rich people with politics on their mind can get real rich much quicker. This program would be called a Get Real Rich Quick scheme, and is no more than some minor tinkering with Trumpist Darwinism, survival of the slickest.
Do you remember the richest guy on Game of Thrones? When they finally got to look in his vault, it was empty. He had been running on bluff. Are we about to get the combination to the vault of President Trump, whom Michael Bloomberg calls the worst businessman in America? If I had been appointed to the Supreme Court by a President with secrets he wants me to keep, I would certainly try to figure out a way to let him hide those tax returns, or whatever else he wants to do. In fact if the Notorious RBG goes before the Judge who judges all judges, I might recommend myself as her replacement.
Senator Warren’s wealth tax seems to be catching on and if we do take 2% of everybody’s wealth over fifty million dollars, here is how to Get Rich Quicker. Go into the vault business. Hiding riches would be the new industry, and within a few months, most of the real wealth in the country would end up in private vaults, converted to precious metal or diamonds. No billionaire could put his money in a bank or own stock or announce how rich he is.
The wealth tax and all it could provide may be a good idea, like pardoning the turkey or pardoning Giuliani, but the rich will save money if they spend 1% of their wealth on politics.
Reach Larry Webster, a Pikeville attorney, at websterlawrencer@bellsouth.net.
