The billionaire boys club is coalescing around the proposed Department of Government Efficiency. It's a mix of TechGods/Cryptobros, hedge funders and private equity underwriters (PEU).
The plan is to cut government workers, cut regulations that impede the rights of their corporations to earn gobs of money while paying little to no taxes, steer Uncle Sam's wallet to their corporations and those of their friends/family,. If that sounds like a conflict of interest soup, it is just that. The Soup Stirrer of the House is Red Teamer Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Trump II's Mara Lago Court is a testimony to inefficiency. CEOs spend days to weeks there to curry favor. Boards of Directors seem to not mind that their high paid talent is waiting for a few minutes here or there with the President elect.
Under Trump II the Usurper, those are very expensive minutes. There's CEO time and whatever Trump II extracts as proper penance for granting his genius presence.
Trump's patriotism is as real as his conservatism but nobody wear's the emperor's clothes better.
Patriotism,Ego & Access
I'm afraid it back to the Gilded Bronzer Age...
Update: On average, US billionaires pay an effective tax rate of less than 9%.
