I've always had the greatest respect for small business, and small businessmen. These enterprises are made up of working people who have chosen to work for themselves, because they love the work (whether it be running an architectural firm or a bakery). They have the courage to put it on the line for that business, and I respect that. I never had the balls to do it.

But big businesses are different. They are not shops run by an ambitious and courageous expert who made it big (Like Ford Motor Company a century ago) and are building up a firm they can pass on to their children. Big businesses are machines for making profits, and they are run by professional managers who could just as easily be running an airline or a bank or a chain of supermarkets. These samurai are not super-competent aviators or bankers or grocers, they are bean-counters; hired guns, sellswords. They have no love or respect for that business and if they run it into the ground they'll just cash in their golden parachutes and go work for another, totally unrelated industry and do the same thing all over again.

As for the owners, they have no personal stake, loyalty or love for the industries they own stock in (they may not even know who they are or what they make) or their long-term viability. They'll move their cash around anywhere the short-term returns are highest. There are no "owners" any more. There are only banks and stock markets and investment firms. We're not even a nation of shoipkeepers any more, we're a nation of middlemen. Business is no longer the kid selling lemonade at the street corner stand, or the Architectural firm with 30 employees. The real model for American (indeed, World!) business today is not the Jeffersonian family farm, its an 18th century New World tobacco or sugar plantation. And plantations work best with slave labor.

As for the tax cut, it probably won't mean all that much to the average worker or small businessman. They might even do a little better than they are under the current setup, at least for a while. But the real winners will be the big corporations and their managers and their stockholders. They will make out like bandits. ONE and a HALF TRILLION DOLLARS worth.

But that's been the plan all along, hasn't it?