Just what is it that runs through Mitch McConnell's veins? It sure as hell isn't warm human blood.
Whereas last spring Congress mandated that employers must provide two weeks of paid sick leave to workers at home with covid or caring for a quarantined family member, this winter McConnell made sure that that provision in the latest relief bill was stricken.
Meanwhile, he also made sure that the fully tax deductible three-martini lunch was back in congressional favor — at Trump's insistence and requisitioned as essential by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in "relief" negotiations — which even the Wall Street Journal editorial board condemns.
Don't care for martinis? Then "go ahead and order that [nearly $700] Clos de Tart 2005. You can write it off," quips the Journal. "This is bad tax policy now or any time."
Oh well, look at it this way: With a super-creative CPA or hyperaggressive tax attorney, that covid-inflicted worker can at least treat an acquaintance to a $1,500 lunch while discussing outside business opportunities; after all, he can also just write it off from his impossibly meager income. All he must really do is think like Mitch.