Discussion: Rubio: GOP Tax Bill ‘Probably Went Too Far’ On Helping Corporations

Buyer’s remorse.

It looked great in the store window but once you got it home you realized how fugly it really is.

Oh well, no returns.

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From here: " to pay out dividends to shareholders. That isn’t going to create dramatic economic growth.”

To Here: " ultimate perception of the bill will be based on “what their paycheck is telling them.”

Was a short trip. Can we see him do that again?

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"If you don’t stand up for something, you’ll fall for anything!"

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Florida, this guy has got to go. Get on it already.

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I think you give Senator Rubio rather too much credit.

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It’s so god damned infuriating to know that the GOP is literally the enemy of the 99%, yet it keeps getting elected and enacting purely evil laws that further harm the fools who vote them into office. Fuck Rubio and the whores he rode in on. What is it going to take to convince the rubes who can’t see what evil fucks the GOP is comprised of? Even an outgoing loser like Corker can’t bring himself to do the humane thing.

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And what will they lose? Directly I mean. It seemed like every time they adjusted salary wherever I worked, something else went away. Two floating holidays? Well, pick one. Comp time? No more. Carry over vacation, adios. Compensation for Vacation not taken, tata!

Regardless, if the average joe sees an increase, something else will decline. The wealthy will not give up found money once given.

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He is an amoeba - he’ll ooze into any shape he thinks will look good to someone on any given damn day.

He needs to grow up. He’s absurd. He acts like a petted precious overly spoiled little boy.

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Same ol’ GOP game. Do one thing, say another. That way everybody gets to hear what they want.

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Seems he is in competition with Nunes for that honor.

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“By and large, you’re going to see a lot of these multinationals buy back shares to drive up the price,” Rubio continued. “Some of them will be forced, because they’re sitting on historic levels of cash, to pay out dividends to shareholders. That isn’t going to create dramatic economic growth.”

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And here’s another fun story. Obama cut taxes for the middle class twice, in 2010 and then again in 2012. Both times his tax cut was larger than this tax scam. Democrats were massacred in 2010. 2012 was much better, but that was for a whole lot of reasons that had nothing to do with the tax cut. The thing is that no one noticed the cut in 2010 or in 2012, and those cuts were bigger. And no one will notice this tax cut either.

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A sphincter says what?

Gee, Marco, it’s a little late for you to be putting on your thinking cap. He is trash of the highest order.

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I distinctly remember that the ever-wise WSJ Editorial Page predicted a depression in the run-up to the vote on that Clinton tax hike. I suppose they spouted a bunch of supply side crap about how this latest tax bill would ignite unparalleled economic growth.

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Hey, little Marco, you’re a) A day late; and b) A dollar short.

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Rubio could have voted no. He will be remembered for his vote to give billionaires the biggest tax cut in history, leaving the rest of the country to pick up the tab.

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Poor Marco, he must be hearing from his fellow Floridians about the law…

Telling the truth now does nothing. You guys rushed this thing through and we all have to live with it.

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Hmm, he finally read at least part of the bill he voted for.

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I suspect Rubio is being given some rhetorical rope by his billionaire masters, the Kochs et al, to tell a little truth about this historically unpopupular tax bill. This is about repositioning for 2020.

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