And that is by design, as you know. If anyone bears the Electoral brunt of that,it will be Trump or Pence in 2020. By that time there will be many more persons without health insurance too.
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Watching this I say to myself, âThey canât be that stupid, can they?â Then I remember how Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) described the Watergate conspirators to Woodward and Bernstein. âThese are not bright peopleâ
Yes, they really are that stupid, having Trump as president makes it Stupid on Steroids (yeah I capitalized that on purpose, (Trumpism, itâs contagious, Sad!)).
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Home sales will fall. Not for want of a tax deduction, but for the narrowing window between young adults moving out of their parentâs houses, and moving back in to care for them in their old age. Buying a home is a terrible investment to someone moving in when theyâre 30 and out again before theyâre 50.
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Why is nobody asking them why the results of their tax plan will be different from Kansas? Kansas was their âbig experimentâ and it failed spectacularly.
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âThey know they would be decimated next fall if they did not deliver some form of tax reform,â he said. âSo theyâre saying, âTrust us and itâll work out in the end.'â
But the gamble may not pay off as expected. If the tax bill becomes law, its impact will hit people across the country just a few months before they go to the polls."
Ahh, thereâs the rub!! 2018 can remedy a lot of GOP chicanery.
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An obvious joke cobbled together by puppets compelled by their masters to deliver a legislative "victory " regardless of the ruin and chaos foisted on an ignorant electorate and a horrified international financial community.
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âI am absolutely convinced that this bill will end up reducing the deficit,â Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) told reporters. âI feel very good about the fiscal situation.â
They provided zero evidence to support this claim. (A promised report from the Treasury Department showing a surge of economic growth turned out not to existâprompting an investigation by the departmentâs inspector general.)
Instead, GOP lawmakers coordinated to undermine and discredit the reports showing their bill would bleed the government of more than a trillion dollars in the coming decade.
These are the same tactics used by religious cults. The Peopleâs Temple, Heavenâs Gate, the Branch Davidians and the Republicanât Party. One of these things is just like the otherâŚ
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conservative economists tell TPM that the policies likely to become law will wreak havoc on the country for many years to come
Well, thatâs nice. I hope someone will inform the public with another âHarry and Louiseâ-style multi-million-dollar, years-long advertising campaign.
Or is that sort of thing for spreading lies only?
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"Instead, the economists and former government officials predicted, the bill will drive up the federal deficit, shrink and destabilize the health care market, exacerbate already historic income inequality, and pressure Congress to make deep cuts to the social safety net and government programs."
I am pretty sure most Republican politicians and their donors would say âSo whatâs the problem?â
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Newsflash: GOP Finds Free Lunch- Screws It Up!
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You talk like they donât know what they are doing
That is the plan: To fuck over a vast majority of Americans with zero benefit to anybody but a few rich people.
They know exactly the consequences if they do and if they donât
If they donât âa few rich people.â will turn off the cash that allows them to get reelected and maintain the plutocracy.
The rich own the government not you or I
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This analysis focuses on NY. But the same conclusions apply to all high state tax areas. Pretty alarming. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/business/economy/tax-bill-new-york.html?_r=0
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Or having our parents living with us and working until they die
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âThese arenât bugs. These are featuresâ Exactly. When the deficit builds, the talking points will all revolve around the horror of it all, so they can justify deep, deep Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid cuts.
The Reulsivans have been planning their turning back of Rooseveltâs biggest accomplishments since Roosevelt, Johnsonâs biggest accomplishments since Johnson, and Trump fits their agenda perfectly as he razes everything Obama accomplished, and his outrages are such a nice shiny distraction from their slimy slitherings backstage. The Militarized police and fascist-majority Supreme Court are nicely in place to crush protest.
What looks like a halting, messy sausage making is the end result of decades of careful Daddy Warbucks planning. Theyâve got everything: money, the talent it buys, the hangers-on it attracts, and the psy-ops warriors bringing all the racists and rednecks into the fold as well-armed cannon fodder.
The south will rise! So which door you gonna live behind: the Plantationâs mansionâs or the servant shackâs?
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That is reality
It dare not speak itâs name in Republican politics
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Honestly, how long is it going to take for everyone to clearly see that anything trump touches becomes an epic, toxic disaster? From the day he was born this has been the pattern.
I hate rushing age along, Iâm no spring chicken anymore, but dammit, I cannot wait until this horrible excuse for a mammal is gone from the public stage, the world, the galaxy, the universe.
And I want justice. Bigly.
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I havenât paid much attention the last five years, but Iâm assuming this tax plan worked out OK when they tried it in Kansas right?
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The Kansas Miracle only died because people didnât believe in it hard enough. If only theyâd clapped longer and louder, the Kansas economy would have risen like dying broadway Tinkerbell and turned Kansas into a shining beacon of prosperity for the world.
So clap, you fuckers, clap! Louder! Clap louder or youâre all fucking fired!
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I think the immortal words of Canadian troubadour Gordon Lightfoot sum it all up quite nicely:
Sometimes I think itâs a sin
When I feel like Iâm winning when Iâm losing again
From Sundown, by Gordon Lightfoot
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