Lit City Blues

Happy Birthday, America.  It's an odd one this year. I think there's a saying floating around out there in the universe that America is a country that will try literally everything else before doing the thing they know they're going to need to do in the first place. President Trump got his big, beautiful bill. We get no tax on overtime until 2028. Seniors get a $6,000 tax cut just because, and the rich get yet another tax break, and the social safety net gets shredded a little more. I might be inclined to believe that things will work out in the end, and they might, in a half-assed, mediocre sort of way, because President Trump seems to have preternatural amounts of luck. We heard a lot of talk about the Biden Economy and how people were suffering under the Biden Economy, and there were people who felt that, but a lot of people didn't see any difference at all. What if the script flips? What if some people get burned, and for a lot of people, their tax refunds get bigge...