I'll bring the marshmallows

Joe Biden gives Liz Warren a great foil
to show how corporations write "our" code.
This smiling astroturfed son of the soil
tracks every donor and how much they're owed.
The White House taunts him, coyly out of reach
so patiently, this Boy Scout waits "his turn"!
Professor Warren's prepped and primed to teach
a lesson he'll be crestfallen to learn.
The on-shore haven corporations use
assured their government has got their backs
is Delaware, where peons pay their dues
while corporations there shirk laws, and tax.
The CHANGE Americans need, this time 'round
is more than voting out one venal clown.

unfunny

Will Rodgers had no use for "TrickleDown"
as he described the hoax to honest folk
but now, "our" Fed takes guidance from a clown
who doesn't grasp his policy's a joke.
Art Laffer's grand experiment's been tried;
the rich invest in growth to save on tax.
But Trump's advisors somehow can't abide
to build sound policy on stubborn facts.
The benefits our taxes underwrite
are more than Kochs, or Mercers would report.
They lift Society from Hobbes' plight:
life "solitary, nasty, brutish, short"
The "Voodoo economics" Bush condemned
is more than honest research can defend.

grab-bag

Ted Cruz snuck fetal personhood aboard
outrageous subterfuge by dark of night
no proper piece of any tax accord
but meat to his supporters on the Right.
McConnell's bill--unread--came to the floor
the lobbyists who wrote it stayed off-screen.
A party loyal to the Mercers' whore
fell into line for what they'd never seen.
Murkowski, Flake, and Collins each got bought
to reach the reconciliation round.
The scraps of pork that they'd so fondly sought
can't fix a bill so radically unsound.
Our nation's future's underneath the ax
to spare the Kochs a piddling bit of tax.