Discussion: Mulvaney: I Can't Give Specifics Of Tax Plan Because We Haven't Finished It Yet

… but it’s easy to put together since the upper .01% needs a huge tax break and we have that covered already. /s

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Bigly, best, beautiful, flim-flammery…

Nothing more…

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Specifics? Eh. I think the Obamacare Repeal-Not showed that it’s not important to know what is actually written on the bill before voting.

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CNBC’s David Faber the other day: “Going to do all the “meaty stuff” at the end when no one will have time to analyze it.”
It’s just like healthcare.

MickeyMouth is the lamest pathological lying provocateur agitprop troll in the highly competitive field that comprises the Trump administration.

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As they say, “the devil’s in the details.”

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Agree with the lameness. He projects “I’m Lying”.

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The devil’s in the White House (and too often on the golf course)

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In the minority GOP = Obstructionists
In the majority GOP = Obfuscationists

Regardless of status in the modern era GOP = Flim Flam artists to self enrich, and enrich donors.

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If "no one can make real detailed analysis of the plan yet because it’s not finished,” then how can DT loudly proclaim that “We will cut taxes tremendously for the middle class - not just a little bit, but tremendously.”? Maybe DT should qualify his statement as being valid for all values of “tremendously” < 0.5%.

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Mulvaney, imho, is an empty suit who, like Trump as POTUS, is out of his depth as budget director. And talk about little hands!

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Now that Price is out - Pruitt and Mulvaney are the next most noxious/dangerous to the country appointees who need to be ‘rode out of town’. Pruitt may be heading the way of Price. Mulvaney? What can he do to earn the hot ire of Dotard? oh… fail to get tax reform passed because the iterations are so stark for the many and so deeply enriching for the exceptionally wealthy? He does seem to be working on that.

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Wow! Great post, especially your description of Mulvaney, et al.

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I Can’t Give Specifics Of Tax Plan Because We Haven’t Finished It Yet
We need to figure out what kind of shells we are going to use before we set up the game on a card table at Times Square.
Tax break for the middle class
Under this on ?
Under That one ?
No sorry the Tax break goes to the 1%

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I guessed “the one on the right”!
Where’s my prize?

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“Can you tell us what percentage of the tax benefit goes to the people in the top one percent?” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Mulvaney on “State of the Union.”

“No, in fact I don’t think anybody can, and anybody who says they can is simply lying to you. Why is that? It’s because the bill is not finished yet,” Mulvaney replied.


"First, the plan would not cut taxes for America’s richest households. “The wealthy are not getting a tax cut under our plan,” Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic advisor, said on Good Morning America. Second, the plan would slash taxes for America’s middle class. “Our framework includes our explicit commitment that tax reform will protect low-income and middle-income households, not the wealthy and well-connected,”


Nearly 90 percent of earners would see their tax burden fall or remain unchanged in 2018. But the richest families would get the biggest tax cuts in both dollar and percentage-of-income terms, with upper-middle-income families facing significant tax increases in time.

The TPC noted that its analysis involved some guesswork, given that the Republican framework contained very little detail and was missing many crucial numbers—including where each tax bracket would start and end, and even how many brackets there would be. The think tank filled in the blanks with numbers from prior Republican proposals, with its projections then showing modestly wealthy and upper-middle-class families getting hit with tax hikes, lower-income and middle-class families provided with small tax cuts, and the very rich and big businesses benefiting far and away the most.


Taxpayers in the top 1 percent, with incomes above $730,000 a year, would gain half of the overall benefits in 2018, with their average post-tax incomes jumping almost 9 percent. More than 97 percent of filers in the top 0.1 percent would see a tax cut due to the Trump plan—and a very large one, worth an average of $747,580—compared with about 70 percent of the poorest households.

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With this administration your prize is “bend over”

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When it is finished, Congress will have a full ninety seconds to review it before voting.

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It can’t be. They’d have more takers. And I don’t mean the Ayn Rand kind.

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Any day now I expect Mulvaney or one of the other door to door salesmen who pose as members of this government to show up at my front door with an offer I can’t refuse - he is just in the neighborhood finishing another aluminum siding job and has enough left over to do my house. It isn’t worth it for him to take it back, so he will do a bigly, beautiful siding job on my house for less than the cost of the siding. (I keep a loaded shotgun next to my front door to be prepared for this.)

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