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Absolutely! Only 23% of Americans want this Billionaire-favoring tax plan. Write your Congressman and Senators, and tell them that if they vote for this, they will lose your vote.
What is insane is thinking the government needs more of my hard earned money.
If you want the government to keep more of your money then you can send you tax break back to them.
They will be more than happy to take it. The same goes for everyone else that is complaining about paying less in taxes.
You are 100% free to send it straight back to the government. My thoughts you will never do is and neither will anyone else that is whining about it.
The party of "fiscal responsibilty" has been complaining bitterly about the oppressive debt weighing down the country for eight years now seeks to add A TRILLION DOLLARS to the debt to give to corporations.
Is any Democrat going to vote for it? Is any Republican not? Am I going to buck my Democratic Senators if they vote for it? I'd hate to think this of them.
Everybody has to pay evenly.
I don't buy the argument that the rich should pay their fair share, they're paying more than their fair share and we have to ask them because of this debt crisis, to pay more more than their fair share.
At any rate they'll be paying less of this soon when the bill passes, let's hope like stupid lemmings that they spend it wisely and benevolently; mercifully.
What are you going to do with your tax break loot? Hmmn? Go run around town with it in your fist like a baboon?
But the Trickle Down Fairy, Tricklebell, will see to it that the tax cut will pay for itself.
This Tax Bill Is a Trillion-Dollar Blunder
Congress and President Trump put politics ahead of smart reform.....
The GOP tax 'reform' package will do significant long-term harm to most Americans and their descendants. It will not pay for itself, instead increasing an already massive deficit. Many Americans [rightfully] believe that funding sorely needed infrastructure repair and replacement should have been the initial Congressional bipartisan endeavor. The GOP however, is ramming through a horrible tax package first for a specific reason. After passage, the GOP will then disingenuously bemoan the fact that the deficit is increasing [an unavoidable consequence of their tax legislation] and demand deep cuts in America's safety-net programs -- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. While the rich get wealthier, everyone else gets the dregs with emaciated safety-net programs when the economy bottoms out from the deep recession that the GOP 'revenue-negative' tax legislation virtually guarantees. There is an underlying rationale why the Republican House/Senate leadership changes their reconciliation tax package on a daily basis. They do not want their legislation scored [by the CBO and independent economic analysis] before a quick floor vote. They do not want to provide the public/media any checks and balance. Such a tactic speaks volumes of the lengths the GOP will travel to pass their pro-wealth agenda in this specific order.
Related: Republicans Despise the Working Class - The New York Times
Not sure what your beef is. Deficits don't matter, remember.
There is no such thing as trickle down that is the fairy tricklebell nonsense the left came up with.
Donald Trump does not understand that the United States is no longer where it was politically during the 1980's, and that he is not Ronald Reagan. Reagan's voodoo economic scam does not work any more.
My hope is that there is an immediate backlash against this, leading to the Democrat domination of the United States, and substantial tax increases for the well to do.
They only matter to the party that is not in power.
Can you actually address the argument or not.
I personally don't care what they do with it. It isntheir money.
That is the cool thing about living in a free society.
However if you are against paying less taxes and think the government should have more of your money you are 100% free to do so.
However like everyone else you won't.
They are already paying pretty much all of the income tax collected.
The top 20% of earners pay pretty much 80% of the income tax.
The reason they say this is the myth of the "their fair share" BS that get thrown around by liberals.
If people knew facts their view would change.
There is not evidence that Reagan's voodoo economic scheme worked then.....
Voodoo economics did not work economically, but it did work politically. Now it does not work politically either.
This Tax Bill Is a Trillion-Dollar Blunder
Congress and President Trump put politics ahead of smart reform.....
The GOP tax 'reform' package will do significant long-term harm to most Americans and their descendants. It will not pay for itself, instead increasing an already massive deficit. Many Americans [rightfully] believe that funding sorely needed infrastructure repair and replacement should have been the initial Congressional bipartisan endeavor. The GOP however, is ramming through a horrible tax package first for a specific reason. After passage, the GOP will then disingenuously bemoan the fact that the deficit is increasing [an unavoidable consequence of their tax legislation] and demand deep cuts in America's safety-net programs -- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. While the rich get wealthier, everyone else gets the dregs with emaciated safety-net programs when the economy bottoms out from the deep recession that the GOP 'revenue-negative' tax legislation virtually guarantees. There is an underlying rationale why the Republican House/Senate leadership changes their reconciliation tax package on a daily basis. They do not want their legislation scored [by the CBO and independent economic analysis] before a quick floor vote. They do not want to provide the public/media any checks and balance. Such a tactic speaks volumes of the lengths the GOP will travel to pass their pro-wealth agenda in this specific order.
Related: Republicans Despise the Working Class - The New York Times
I cannot refute anything in there but note the bold. First I recall the same GOP types in here were advocating infrastructure some time ago. Further Canada has doubled down on infrastructure spending (if I am tracking properly there are three new airports and a a few ice breakers) as well as many European countries have expanded debt based infrastructure spending.
A long ago prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker once said "never cut taxes unless the people are complaining", and I have never heard complaints about a high tax rate in the US, in fact the right complained, whined and warned the debt was too much!
Without the ability to see into the future, you are just shoveling gas. You title should be "Democrats say Tax Bill A Trillion Dollar Blunder". Unless Klaatu from Klaatuvill in the future wrote that, you all gotta have some proof that you are in fact able to see in the future.
Not sure what your beef is. Deficits don't matter, remember.
Awesome.... :applaud
We can bundle this mistake with the many trillions the democrats added over the past 8 years and go down in a blaze of glory.
Thanks for the clarification.... though to clarify to you, "voodoo" economics did not work politically either. The notion that cutting taxes led to robust economic growth in the 1980's did work politically, even though it wasn't the tax cuts that fueled growth.
When I say that voodoo economics worked politically I mean that it did not hurt the Republicans. The top tax rate declined from 70% to 27%. The national debt tripled. Fewer jobs were created every year than under President Carter. Reagan's policies weakened the labor movement. Nevertheless, Reagan was reelected in a landslide. George H.W. Bush was elected president in 1988.
The Reagan presidency really was transitional, as the Obama presidency was not. The Republicans have both houses of Congress, and most state legislatures. The President and most governors are Republican.
Ronald Reagan was a dream come true for America's plutocracy. They got much richer. Reagan hurt the economic interests of the white working class. White blue collar workers seemed to get masochistic pleasure out of the pain, and shouted, "USA! USA!"
You are wrong on your comparisons, as to cause and effect. Keep in mind, policies often take several years to be seen. The national debt more than doubled during president Reagan's time, but it took a long time for him to get inflation under control, and he left this nation better than he received it in. A large part of the debt increase was paying that high inflation on government bonds.
One of the best indicators of an administration is prime interest rates. The sweet spot seems to be around 6% annual. Much higher or lower is a disaster.
The effect of this tax bill will be a little growth for the midterms and then hopefully we'll have Democrats to blame for the slowdown so we can re-elect Donald Trump for the crash at the end of his Term or into yours (this time) don't you want the 2024?
You aren't making sense. Why would there be a crash?
There would be a crash, because all this money that you just gave people gets put into some bubble, or invested in high return so not available to the lending pool that the Government has to draw on, their investment extracting more money for the economy.
Hopefully, your pleasant view can prove true, but I only know how well off we would be if the two Senators had voted no, but I have a problem with my Party if they think we need large government like it says right on the DNC website.
I just think being fiscally responsible is far more productive than any tax cut and this one destroys all the steady growth Trump's business connections was so nicely leading.
LOL...
Bubbles are usually the product of irresponsibility, like the housing market crash, where democrats refused to make changes.
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