Of course he isnât talking about it much on the campaign trail⌠He confines most of his discussion of the tax act to his fundraising, since thatâs who it was designed to help⌠Only little people pay taxes.
Heâs realized that itâs too complicated for the voters.
He doesnât talk about tax reform because he doesnât want to talk about that trillion dollar hole in the budget this tax package created.
Roskam is a right wing apparatchik. He helped write the tax bill that has screwed his constituents. If re-elected, Roskam will eagerly support gutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to help fund the tax bill. Casten is the right candidate at the right time. I gave him $25, and urge fellow commenters at TPM to help.
Touch the Third Rail? Not likely, after McConnell stated heâd go after social safety net to pay for Roskamâs give-away!!
LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL â Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) has predicted for
months that the GOP tax plan he helped craft would play a major role in
his reelection campaign. But with November fast approaching, itâs his
opponent who seems more interested in talking about the issue.
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The real purpose of that tax plan was to kill the working people of America by transferring huge amounts of wealth to already rich folk and the gutting of Medicare and Social Security.
Thatâs the real plan and we are seeing the result in real terms. One trillion dollars a year is being added to the national debt annually.
Thanks GOP. The party of âfiscal responsibility.â
Whatâs the matter Peter? It did exactly what you wanted it to do. Money for the rich, crumbs for everyone else. That was the plan, right? You should be touting this. You should be singing its praises. Why arenât you?
Iâd like to see some fearless young reporter ask Yertle (McConnell) why he hates working people and why he wants to kill programs that donât add to the National debt. Social Security runs on money from working people and not appropriations from Congress. Money for Social Security came out of every paycheck of mine and now that bastard from Kentucky wants to steal it. 
btw: I donât like calling people names generally. But in McConnellâs case I feel compelled to use them.
Nice writing Cameron Joseph. Actually better than mostâŚCameron, will you check out the .neighboring US Congressional DISTRICT, 14, MCHENRY COUNTY, IL. just as volatile. Please TPM check out the race between Lauren underwood (D) and randy hultgrenÂŽâŚIllinois 14th. Can Lauren Underwood get some ink by this TPM writer?
Another fire-breathing, fantasy-land supply-sider who extolls the virtues of massive deficits in order to enrich the robber barons, and destroy Social Security and Medicare. Itâs not enough to dismantle Obamacare, he wants the elderly and poor crammed into the almshouse and gutter with the rest of us!
âI put my feet on the ground the day after Trump was elected⌠and just said âno, no, no,ââ she told TPM.
But she said she voted for Gary Johnson. Personally, I find it a more effective strategy to put my foot and stop someone before they get elected rather than the day after. Maybe itâs just a liberal thing.
OT, but check out this abhorrent NYT apologist fail articleâŚ
An issue that is emerging as a real problem for the GOP with swing voters as we move through these final 3 weeks is the deficit. Iâve seen that issue come up in every debate and local media piece over the past week. The reason it has political salience is because voters, especially WWC voters, seem to immediately recognize that the GOP would come after medicare and social security to fill a major deficit imbalance. This was the argument that Conor Lamb pitched to win the PA-18 special election. He made reference to it again in his debate yesterday and on twitter. Beto OâRourke, Kyrsten Sinema, Jackie Rosen are also among those who have raised the issue. It may also be why Phil Bredesenâs campaign appears to be stabilizing post-Kavanaugh. But more importantly, itâs not Dems who are necessarily pushing this issue, itâs local media and local voters. I think this issue along with health care become very significant among the undecided voters and will likely overwhelm the culture war pitch (mainly through immigration) that the GOP is banking on to get their voters out.
Thereâs a lot of noise and nonsense in the national media (as well as some polls) but I think the trend is unmistakable.
I would expect more races to shift in the Dems favor as race is a diminishing factor in the votersâ minds.
The plan is clearly a disaster for all but Americas most wealthyâŚthere wont be enough disingenuous lies to overcome that reality.
We should be using MItch McConnell going after SS and Medicare the same way the Repubs use Nancy Pelosi. We should have commercials of a dystopian future with 70-year-olds eating cat food while people are playing on yaughts in the background. She should be saying I always voted Republican because I thought they were the party of fiscal responsibility. I just didnât realize they were going to use my money to pay their debts.
The Republican ad is really good. I wonder how it is playing in the district.
I was thinking about a very similar ad this morning aimed directly at my MAGA aunt and her friends.
Exploding debt is not âbillions savedâ.
If it is, then why are Republicans trying to rob the savings of a generation?
The real question becomes âwhen are you wealthy enough??â I mean that the very people you are depending on for food, medical care, education for your privileged spawn and yard work are NOT 1 percenters. If they are not part of the wealth circle, then as a rich person, all the money in the world wonât save you in a crisis.