WASHINGTON — Republicans’ release of a sweeping plan to rewrite the tax code has set off a scramble among Washington lobbyists and trade groups to protect valuable tax breaks and other long-ingrained provisions.
from the NYTimes
They crawled out from the woodwork; they popped up from lobster bisque;
They left their merry junkets and returned home mighty brisk.
The lobbyists were circling their wagons for attack;
They heard that Congress had a tax plan that was plainly whack.
Each special int’rest fellow and each pressure grouping gal
Was worried that their ‘fix’ was gone, which would mean low morale.
They huddled and they muddled and they gurgled and they gasped;
Looking for the smallest slightest straw that could be grasped.
Twas finally decided that there was just one sure means
Of deflecting Congress -- twas the sharing of the greens!
Yes, greenbacks always paved the way for good intentions -- so
The lobbyists dug deep and filled great barrels full of dough.
Not caring who might see them and without a hesitation
They spread the gravy ev’rywhere, as merely a ‘donation.’
And so the mighty tax plan that was to solve our many ills
Is somewhere off in Fairyland, beyond the farthest hills . . .
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