Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) stressed the importance of “not pulling the rug out from under people,” but floated the idea that the AHCA’s tax credits could “pick up some of these people” that lose Medicaid.
That’s not how being poor works. If you are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid you can afford to put ~$0 towards healthcare.
Source: Was a poor person for several decades.
These fuckers are licking their chops at hurting the poors. They’re too stupid to realize that this gift to their wealthy patrons is going to tank their states’ economies.
”Sen. Toomey ¶ says the AHCA’s $840 billion Medicaid cut is not really a cut because Medicaid spending is higher than pre-Obamacare rates. And since Republicans promised to repeal Obamacare, it’s just going back to normal.”
I’m totally on board with that logic.
Restoring the top tax rate to its 1980 level of 70% isn’t really a tax increase on billionaires.
Because rates are lower now than they were pre-Reagan.
So it’s just going back to normal.
Toomey’s a genius!
Ya think?
“Reconciliation” means under Senate rules all the GOPers need is 51 votes. That’s what McConnell is driving for. And te rule applies, I think, to certain appropriation bills. So, Mitch, reconcile this…
But Donnie said he likes the poors…
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Maybe deliveries of copies of medical bills (names blacked out) or caskets with bodies inside, to senate offices might get them to reconsider their actions.
And the Veterans that don’t come home in a box - well they are no longer an important concern of the GOP. It is sickening.
I though he said that he liked the stupids.…sorry, my bad.
Quick, somebody go check The Cook Report for a 20 point shift towards the Senate Dems.
No, he said he “loves the poorly educated.” Ah, replaying the hits. But somehow there’s always money for the military and his new adventures in Syria and Afghanistan.
We can’t even get them to demand the Pentagon pass an audit.
And when those hospitals in Central Pennsylvania start closing, that will take everything back to the 1940s, before they were built, so that will totally be just going back to normal. And you know, Pennsylvania is one of the oldest states in the nation so it can stand to have a higher death rate to bring the average age of its residents in line with the national average. Totally, totally normal.
“We’ve got to get it under control. Right now it’s out of control,” he said of Medicaid’s budget. “It’s going to be really out of control if we don’t do something.”
Um, Senator, if it’s not really out of control, then your second sentence is a lie.
P.S. Toomey is a lost cause. If you are in Pennsylvania, work to re-elect Wolf for governor in 2018. At this point, if my mother didn’t live there and if I didn’t know the vote had been so close, I would basically say “Fuck Pennsylvania. They are getting what they voted for.”
The GOP “moderates” will cave and they will gut Medicaid expansion (their base sees it as “welfare” for “other people” who don’t deserve it).
And that scream you heard was the sound of Shelley Capito trying to figure out what the fuck to do next. Seriously, Capito, Collins, Heller, Gardner and Flake and maybe Portman or Cassidy are probably the only ones who could possibly be considered persuadable.
In West Virginia? What other people? The two black people who live in Wheeling or maybe the fewer than 30 that play for the WVU football and basketball teams?
Don’t worry!
The Laffer curve tells us that as tax rates decrease, revenue increases. All we need to do is cut the tax rate to zero and revenue will become infinite.
Maths!
No, those blah people and “illegals” in the big costal cities. Don’t try and find a coherent connection to reality in it, but that has never been the case with the GOP and their messaging when it comes to getting rural, middle-class and lower-income people to vote against their own interests. It will be “illegals” “urban dwellers” and everyone but themselves who are stealing from the system via Medicaid (again they think Medicaid = welfare).
They really do despise their voters. It’s becoming clearer they’re bitter over the captains of industry being liberal so they want one last act of spite before being driven to irrelevance