Discussion: White House Official Signals Flexibility On Preserving Obamacare Taxes

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Christofascist Pence would be far worse than trump.

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“Don’t make it ‘mean.’ Just make it awful.”

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toss-up, different sides, same coin

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Doesn’t this guy realize that the entire repeal exercise is designed to gut the Obamacare taxes that hit the rich hardest of all. Next Trump will be asking Republicans to work with Democrats to pass meaningful reform legislation.

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“America will be happy with what we give them,” Cohn said.

Just the latest expression of the GOP adherence to the strict father family approach to governance.

“In the strict father family, father knows best. He knows right from wrong and has the ultimate authority to make sure his children and his spouse do what he says, which is taken to be what is right.” - George Lakoff

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This is an important point which bears repeating. For anyone still not familiar with Fax Zero, this is free online software that can generate and send a fax to anyone you want, including pre-populated numbers for members of congress. YOU DON’T NEED A FAX MACHINE, ever, to use this service! You can compose faxes one by one or you can write once and then copy/paste into multiple faxes. Or, you can upload a pre-written doc or pdf.

When you got to their website, you see

It’s all very straightforward from there. NOTE: You do need access to your email to verify the fax before it is sent but you will also get a fax confirmation once they have successfully transmitted your fax to the recipient fax machine.

Finally, I send faxes to ALL of the offices of my congressman and senators! Why not? It’s free and takes just a minute to send my message numerous times.

ETA: This can also be used on your smartphone as long as you can okay the fax via your email…

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“‘America will be happy with what we give them,’ Cohn said.” Let them eat cake.

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He is DESPERATE for a Victory, any Victory.

Trump thinks (using the term loosely) that he can get his massive Tax Cuts in the Tax Reform bill that will be next on the agenda and that he can bamboozle the Senate and Country with this 3-Card Monty trick (find the Tax Cuts! Follow the Tax Cuts! What Bill are the Tax Cuts in?)

It won’t work. The ONLY reason most of the Senators were voting for the AHCA in the first place was the massive TAX CUTS for them and their campaign donors.

Take those out from under the cover of “Health Reform” and move it out into the open in a “Tax Reform” bill and they will scurry like cockroaches away from the very, VERY PUBLIC concept of “Take Money from the Poor and give it to the Rich.”

Of course Hair Trump is too stupid to realize this…so, here we are.

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In other words America can eat crap, because republicans plan on giving us a turd on a stick.

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"The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday that, through 2026, Senate Republicans’ Obamacare repeal bill would increase deficits by $541 billion, “mostly by reducing tax revenues.”

There just getting started. In four years, and it will be a republican in the WH at least until 2020, the projected increases will be in the trillions.

But…this sort of talk isn’t helping McConnell out one bit.

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I am sorry, Mr. Cohn, I am not sure I understood that. Can you be more vague?

Don’t you love it when a bunch of rich white guys decide what the real problems are and then decide what the best solutions are? I know I do.