Lawmaker Wants to Redirect Gambling Excise Tax to Fund ICE
The sycophancy that rocks the top echelons of the GOP is not at all surprising, where cult-like politics are the only way of career advancement, never mind if the Secretary of Defenses uses the same password and phone for everything he does.
Yet, the rank-and-file MAGA faithful are not far behind in holding the party line in the most befuddlingly nonsensical ways possible, with Ohio US Representative Michael Rulli submitting the Giving Alien Migrants Back Through Lawful Excise Redistribution (GAMBLER) Act legislation for consideration, which wants to take the proceeds from the gambling excise tax and use them to back the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Rep. Rulli, What Are You Doing?
This comes a day after POTUS himself took to X to announce that “changes are coming,” shorthand for our mass-deportation has completely backfired, understaffing critical sectors of the economy, while lawmakers have made caricatures of themselves brandishing bananas in public hearings and asking profoundly: why are these bananas not grown on home soil?
Yet, Representative Rulli is going the distance and announced that he expects $300 million to be generated this way, throwing his support behind the excellent work ICE has been doing in deporting what could be mostly innocent people to far-flung destinations they are not originally from.
Why not give the brutes the extra cash to really —- things up? Rulli, though, has been a passionate MAGA loyalist and offered his commentary on what motivated him to bring this unique proposal to the table:
“We’ve all witnessed the blatant disregard for law and order in Los Angeles — and frankly, enough is enough. Working-class Americans are paying the price while blue states and sanctuary cities harbour millions of illegal aliens who wave foreign flags in our streets, vandalise property, and drain resources meant for our own citizens.”
Frankly, Representative Rulli is out of his depth. The argument that the bill would allow ICE to access critical resources “without asking a penny” from American families does not track, as essentially any tax is a tax on American families, and as such, any tax raised and paid to the government was taken out of citizens to an extent, but sensationalism has replaced facts in the era of tribal politics.
Not Taking from American Aliens? Are You Serious?
While attention-grabbing, not everyone is happy with this line of reasoning, and even the GOP sees this as an attempt to brandish Representative Rulli’s political credentials at the expense of unintended consequences to the government budget.
Although the GOP controls the House, they are in for a drubbing in the mid-term, and the Senate currently only offers them 53 seats, and they need 60 to pass the measure. Even if all 53 lawmakers agreed – and they do not – they would then have to magically convince 7 Democrats, whom they accuse in the draft bill of harboring “millions of illegal aliens,” to vote with them.
Representative Rulli has also faced the backlash of his nonsensical idea, with constituents staging protests and accusing the lawmaker of pushing the interests of wealthy individuals. The truth is probably much simpler – Representative Rulli is a sycophant.
