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Rollo

(2,559 posts)
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 06:24 PM Oct 2017

Democrats Attack Tax Bill as a Middle-Class Con Job

Source: NY times

WASHINGTON — Republicans will pitch their tax bill this week as a gift to the middle class, but Democrats will call it a Trojan horse: a windfall for big business and the rich dressed as a tax cut for workers.

The tensions over who will benefit from the sweeping tax rewrite were on display during an hourlong meeting last week between President Trump and Senate Finance Committee members. Democrats who attended, including many whose states Mr. Trump won, said the president agreed with every point raised on the subject of tax cuts for the middle class. At the end of the meeting, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon told Mr. Trump that the tax bill Republicans were drafting would not deliver on his promises to the middle class and would instead benefit corporations and high earners.

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Democrats have little expectation that Republican lawmakers will take heed when House lawmakers introduce their tax bill next week. And Mr. Wyden and other Democrats are not waiting: They are already attacking the legislation as a bait-and-switch in the hopes that they can find a path forward to a bipartisan tax bill that they believe will truly benefit middle-class Americans.

“This is a middle-class con job,” Mr. Wyden said.



Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/us/politics/democrats-tax-reform-middle-class.html



The bill, being a con job, is crafted to appeal to Trump's base instincts.

Who doubts that if passed as described, Trump will eagerly sign it?


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turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
2. This rip-off is taking 497 Billion from Medicare and Medicaid
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:14 PM
Oct 2017

and ONE trillion from Social Security, which are "already" in treasury bonds and the "trust funds" to keep them solvent, robbing peter to pay paul ryan (eddie munster), its already paid for

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/23/trumps-shiny-tax-cut-plan-has-a-1-point-5-trillion-problem.html


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Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
3. I think they are cuting 3-4 billion from HUD
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:20 PM
Oct 2017

Besides taking healthcare from grandma and grandpa they are also kicking them out of their homes.

xor

(1,204 posts)
5. There's no reason why 85 year olds can't work two or three jobs!!!!
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:44 PM
Oct 2017

Builds work ethic or something... I don't know about you, but I'd rather see a worthy CEO receive an extra million dollar salary than see some unworthy little person have enough to survive. When was the last time a poor person gave you a job? Oh... no, don't go that route and make it complicated with what drives demands, because that isn't what I am getting at. Come on. Stop it. MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA MAGA BENGHAZI! MAGA OBAMA KENYA!!! MAGA MAGA MAGA SOROS!!! #FAKENEWS


I think I won this argument.

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
4. K&R
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 07:41 PM
Oct 2017

Neither Eddie Munster & Turtle-man, nor the POS in the Oval Office want "a bipartisan tax bill that will truly benefit middle-class Americans."...and that's a sad but true fact!

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)
6. ABsolutely,,,,
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:17 PM
Oct 2017

no tax cuts for any Corps unless they pay a living wage to all their employees!
Period!

lark

(22,993 posts)
7. As long as he and other 1%ers get their millions of $$ every year tax cut, he'll sign.
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 10:25 PM
Oct 2017

That's all he cares about. The "WIN" is the bonus. He will have broken all his promises that the tax cut would benefit the middle class not the rich because it was always a con.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
8. When has the Republican party EVER done anything positive for regular (95%) of Americans? when?
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 10:52 PM
Oct 2017

They never have.

Rollo

(2,559 posts)
9. Perhaps back when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation...
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 11:15 PM
Oct 2017

Which did help everyone achieve a more moral and ethical existence.

Since then, not a whole lot.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
10. yeah but gov. left in 13th amendment that slavery is still legal for prisoners. a big fat loophole
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 11:24 PM
Oct 2017

exploited for decades & decades, even today Corporations enjoy work-gangs of 20 cent an hour prison slaves.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
12. Lincolns long dead. Our countries built on cheap labor, cheapest the 'Corp owner' can find- chain ga
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 09:03 AM
Oct 2017

chain gangs, prisoners, immigrants willing to do anything to earn, imports of Chinese/Mexican laborers, child workers, woman without any rights.

Even today, prison slaves 'work' for next to nothing...small communities across America depend on revenue streams from fines, police departments depend on cash seizure from stop & frisk pockets.

Republicans tax bill is a bunch of bullshit to take more tax revenue from American citizens- America will never have upgraded roads, new hospitals and schools with them in charge.

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