Well good on the Times though I’m not sure the GOP gives a damn what the US citizenry has to say, on Twitter or otherwise. But it’s quite amazing to see the Times so proactive.
I wonder what tomorrow has in store.
In a recent interview, Elizabeth Warren noted that instead of passing the proposed tax legislation, Congress could give each family earning less than $200,000 a year a $17,000 check. Since recent reports have shown the “average” tax cut for the middle class to be around $1,200, maybe lower- and middle income taxpayers should ask Congress where does the other $15,800 that you could have given me go? Let Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and other members of Congress explain that one. Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but policy questions aside, the intuitive appeal of this question has the makings of a great ad campaign.
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If you make $100 a day, $36,500 per year, your after tax income is going to go up 20¢ per day ($73) under the Cut Cut Cut Act. If you make $12 million per year, however, your after tax income will go up by $1,000 a day.
[source: David Cay Johnston]
This is the perfect ad.
Dems should run it 24 hours a day.
Unfortunately, republicans seem only to care about their donors, who will be more than happy if this abomination passes. Oh, and there will be trickle down - right into the pockets of the congress people who passed it.
Taking health care and education away from people who live here, to cut the taxes of people who don’t.
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If you make $12 million per year, however, your after tax income will go up by $1,000 a day.
[/quote]For which good fortune repeal of the inheritance tax is even more necessary, you see.
But, seriously, the rich will create good paying jobs with that extra money. Maybe open a coal mine.
OT: Strange but something that isn’t getting a whole lot of attention is that SCHIP still hasn’t been funded. Various states are preparing to notify thousands of parents that their kids no longer have any means of health insurance and -
they. are. on. their own.
there will be good money to be made hiring personal protection services. I read somewhere the rich can always pay half the populace to kill the other half.
DystopikAmerika - coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
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Strange but something that isn’t getting a whole lot of attention is that SCHIP still hasn’t been funded.
[/quote]For this alone - Republicans should hang. And when you add all the other things they’re doing, what goes through my mind gets very messy.
If this passes, I pray that there’s a widely popular movement of middle class people refusing to pay taxes.
Plus, let’s face it: Blue States are getting a tax hike while their reps aren’t even being involved in the crafting of this bill.
It’s taxation without representation, all over again.
That’s nice. After 3 decades of the NYT’s Clinton derangement syndrome, which reached critical mass in 2016, helping us avoid what would assuredly have been the beginning of the End Times if Clinton had become POTUS instead of Trump, I see this as nothing more than the equivalent to of a dying person trying desperately to get into heaven.
Also too, let me take this opportunity to send another thank you out to the Bernie folks who also saved us from the worse of two evils by refusing to vote or voting for Trump. Boy howdy, wee really did avert disaster last year, didn’t we?