If you go to this link you will find yet another story about Trump’s criminality. But let’s put that to the side. I want to concentrate on this paragraph:
Senator Schumer released a statement on Friday about Trump’s tax reform principles: “Until President Trump releases his full tax returns, a cloud of suspicion will remain and make it much more difficult to get tax reform legislation through the Congress.”
My beef is with the word “reform”. Here is the definition from my OED:
- The removal of faults or errors, esp. of a moral, political, or social kind; amendment, change for the better; reformation of character. m17.
?b A particular instance of this; an improvement made or suggested; a change for the better. l18.
Etc.
There is absolutely no chance that the tax bill proposed by Republicans will be a “change for the better”. It will be yet another vehicle for shoveling money to the rich from the rest of us. The word “reform” not only means a change for the better, it is widely understood to mean just that. Note that in the above paragraph even the writer at Crooks and Liars used the term. When people hear a Democrat call this rape of the taxpayers “reform”, they get the message that overall, it’s a good thing.
If the Republicans were opposing a Democratic plan, you can bet your ass the wouldn’t tolerate the word reform being applied to that plan. They would call it something else, and they would carp at the news media for using the word. I would suggest “tax deform”, but I’m not wedded to that. I’m only saying you shouldn’t give away the game by once again accepting the Republican frame.
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