Discussion: GOP Leaders Claim They've Sewn Up 50 Votes For Tax Bill

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GOP Leaders Claim They've Sewn Up 50 Votes For Tax Bill GOP Leaders Claim They've Sewn Up 50 Votes For Tax Bill Back to article
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On Thursday night, Cornyn waved away a report from Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation that found the bill would cost the government $1 trillion even with economic growth, alternately declaring it junk and claiming it vindicates GOP leadership’s claim that the tax bill will pay for itself.

Words fail.

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Keep. Calling

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“Don’t pay any attention to us. Look over there! Flynn!!! Trump tweets!”

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Republicans. The party of dirty thieves and traitors. All of them down to every single one of their dirty supporters.

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I can’t decide if the Flynn news will stall this - or allow the GOP to pass it quickly and be relieved that there won’t be much media attention to their actual votes.

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Schadenfreude … it’s what’s for dinner … and lunch … and breakfast.

Non nom, GOPers.

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They keep stepping up to the plate, and they continue to strike out. Well, maybe they’ll get lucky this time, but they really don’t seem to know what they’re doing, do they.

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Corporate ass kissers.

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Billionaire donors: The only constituent that matters. Does that fit on a baseball cap?

I think they very well might be in for a rude awakening next year. First, most people hate this bill. Second, money (thankfully) is increasingly being shown to not matter as much in campaigns when you can arouse passions (good and bad). So throw that money down the toilet - but make sure you save some for your underground gold toilet bunker.

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“win over a couple other holdouts by making the tax break for so-called pass through corporations more generous—up from 17.4 percent to 23.”

IIRC Trump’s businesses are set up as pass through corporations.

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If you’ve got millions of dollars in the bank and offshore accounts and you control the government and the rules.
You don’t give a fuck about deficits
You don’t give a fuck.

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Now THAT fits on a baseball cap.

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Not sure I understand what’s going on here. If Corker, Flake, Collins and other Senators are not yet on board, where do they get the 50? (Maybe they’ve privately committed, but not publicly – but what’s the value in that?)

Also, if the pass through went from 17.4 to 23%, that’s the tax rate, which has been increased under this reading, right? It’s less generous to the massively wealthy, not more.

Finally, I agree with those commenters who question how the JCT report, which finds only $400 billion in revenue – with $ 1 trillion unaccounted for – using the Repubs’ favorite dynamic scoring, proves that the tax cut pays for itself.

I don’t know how these people sleep at night.

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“GOP Whip Baphomet The Destroyer (R-Hell) announced Friday that Republicans had bought the 50 damned souls needed to pass their tax bill…”

The Republican leadership team briefly celebrated before returning to work:

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Yes, yes, yes. Give the Trump family a tax cut before they’re thrown out of the White House. That’s what the forgotten men of West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania wanted all along.

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If these guys tried something like this in the private sector, they’d go to prison.

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Angus King on GOP tax push: ‘To call this a circus would be an insult to circuses’

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine.) mocked the Republican push to pass a tax reform bill, saying it was worse than a circus.

“To call this a circus would be an insult to circuses,” King said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” on Thursday.

"Believe it or not, Anderson, nobody’s seen it. We’re going to be voting on one of the most important votes we’ll ever take in this body that’ll affect this country for the next thirty years. Nobody’s seen the bill," he continued.

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Cornyn has a history of painting a rosier-than-accurate picture.

“Everyone lies.”

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The main difference between Rome burning and the USA burning is that, in Rome, they did not have marshmallows. Enjoy the show as best you can because this will not end well for anyone. Sure a few billionaires are going to have a few extra digits in their accounts for a little while, but when the weight finally comes down, even they will be worse-off than before the madness set in. In comparison, the people at the bottom just won’t have anything left to lose, so why will they care when the stock market and the economy collapses?

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