With most people not wanting a priority on taxes, it makes you wonder who congress is really working for?
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One in five adults said that reducing taxes for businesses and individuals should be a major focus for Congress this fall, a POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll found, with a higher percentage calling for action on items like lowering prescription drug costs, increasing the minimum wage and infrastructure spending.
I would have thought that the oligarchs who own our congresspersons and senators would have been content with their gains from mortgaging our children’s future with such obscenities as the student loan program that one can’t escape even through bankruptcy. But noooooo….. They are so greedy to increase their obscene wealth, that they are pulling the strings of their puppets to mortgage the futures of our grandchildren with the deficits required to “fund” tax “reform” that makes them even more obscenely rich! Did I use the root of “obscene” too many times?
This is Trump’s idea of a populism platform. He promised, while he was campaigning, that he would be the president for the Forgotten people of America. That he would do a tax bill that would cut their taxes and give them a better take-home paycheck. He promised that his tax bill would not benefit himself. That’s not true, either one of those statements. Most Americans are going to find their tax bills going up and that will mean less money to take home. And Trump is going to profit by at least 1 billion dollars. He also promised that he would not touch Social Security or Medicaid. We’ve already seen how well he keeps his promises. Who wants to bet that Social Security and Medicaid become his next targets?
JOCKE is the only Trump Disciple posting in support of the Republican tax cts for the rich.
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And his only ‘point’ is a parroting of the idea that giving even more money to the corporations (and the rich) will somehow trickle down in the form of more jobs and higher wages.
JLOCKE, the corporate entities have been asked what they will do with their tax cuts. The answers have been pay down debt, buy back stock, initiate more mergers and automate. This will result in FEWER jobs, not create any.
.Adults know that they need to pay for things like infrastructure, education and general welfare. Expensive artillery that doesn’t work and is unbelievably expensive need to be cancelled, not increased. You called these “inefficiencies” but spending $800K EACH for missiles and designing jets that cannot work are flat out waste and payoffs to military industrial complex.
JLOCKE, the US needs to invest in infrastructure (much of it rated D or F), education and general welfare, and people need to contribute to that. The GOP is to intentionally increase the debt and deficit to force cuts that most people do NOT want. Supporting programs that help PEOPLE is a good idea. Continuing to outrageously support the military-industrial complex only benefits military contractors and the politician’s they give money to.
The mark of a highly civilized Society is how well they take care of all of their citizens not just the elite few in the top strata of rich oligarchs. We are becoming a third world nation. and a second class civilized Society. We no longer take care of our poor or our children or our ill. We no longer take care of our infrastructure, it is falling down around our ears. We no longer do research into better ways to serve the nation as a whole, instead we funnel money into the top 1% Elite, greedy grasping, rich, corporation heads so that they can pad their bank accounts, buy backs stocks and mechanized production of whatever products it is that they make thereby decreasing whatever jobs used to be available. This is not progress, folks, this is how countries become failed governments like Zimbabwe and Somalia.
The GOP is trying to do a precarious highwire act while the Dems just want to expose the Tax plan for what is it. A cash giveaway to the rich on the backs of the middle class. Why can’t the Democrats just get along and give the middle class money to the rich? Isn’t that what we voted for?
braindead Premium Member over 6 years ago
Lisa, you forgot to put the quotes around “reform”.
Random Nick Premium Member over 6 years ago
We can only hope…
gammaguy over 6 years ago
And he refused the net. Instead, it’s gross.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 6 years ago
Tax “Reform”, my great Aunt Fanny! Tax “RIPOFF” is more like it.
superposition over 6 years ago
With most people not wanting a priority on taxes, it makes you wonder who congress is really working for?
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One in five adults said that reducing taxes for businesses and individuals should be a major focus for Congress this fall, a POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll found, with a higher percentage calling for action on items like lowering prescription drug costs, increasing the minimum wage and infrastructure spending.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/21/tax-reform-lags-other-issues-on-list-of-voters-concerns-242972
walfishj over 6 years ago
Lisa. If you have to explain the joke, it failed. Please explain this alleged cartoon.
Bobbers Premium Member over 6 years ago
I would have thought that the oligarchs who own our congresspersons and senators would have been content with their gains from mortgaging our children’s future with such obscenities as the student loan program that one can’t escape even through bankruptcy. But noooooo….. They are so greedy to increase their obscene wealth, that they are pulling the strings of their puppets to mortgage the futures of our grandchildren with the deficits required to “fund” tax “reform” that makes them even more obscenely rich! Did I use the root of “obscene” too many times?
Sadandconfused9 over 6 years ago
This is Trump’s idea of a populism platform. He promised, while he was campaigning, that he would be the president for the Forgotten people of America. That he would do a tax bill that would cut their taxes and give them a better take-home paycheck. He promised that his tax bill would not benefit himself. That’s not true, either one of those statements. Most Americans are going to find their tax bills going up and that will mean less money to take home. And Trump is going to profit by at least 1 billion dollars. He also promised that he would not touch Social Security or Medicaid. We’ve already seen how well he keeps his promises. Who wants to bet that Social Security and Medicaid become his next targets?
braindead Premium Member over 6 years ago
JOCKE is the only Trump Disciple posting in support of the Republican tax cts for the rich.
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And his only ‘point’ is a parroting of the idea that giving even more money to the corporations (and the rich) will somehow trickle down in the form of more jobs and higher wages.
.
Seriously, not literally, right?
Nantucket Premium Member over 6 years ago
JLOCKE, the corporate entities have been asked what they will do with their tax cuts. The answers have been pay down debt, buy back stock, initiate more mergers and automate. This will result in FEWER jobs, not create any.
.Adults know that they need to pay for things like infrastructure, education and general welfare. Expensive artillery that doesn’t work and is unbelievably expensive need to be cancelled, not increased. You called these “inefficiencies” but spending $800K EACH for missiles and designing jets that cannot work are flat out waste and payoffs to military industrial complex.
Nantucket Premium Member over 6 years ago
JLOCKE, the US needs to invest in infrastructure (much of it rated D or F), education and general welfare, and people need to contribute to that. The GOP is to intentionally increase the debt and deficit to force cuts that most people do NOT want. Supporting programs that help PEOPLE is a good idea. Continuing to outrageously support the military-industrial complex only benefits military contractors and the politician’s they give money to.
well-i-never over 6 years ago
If it said “Tax reform bomb” it might make sense.
Sadandconfused9 over 6 years ago
The mark of a highly civilized Society is how well they take care of all of their citizens not just the elite few in the top strata of rich oligarchs. We are becoming a third world nation. and a second class civilized Society. We no longer take care of our poor or our children or our ill. We no longer take care of our infrastructure, it is falling down around our ears. We no longer do research into better ways to serve the nation as a whole, instead we funnel money into the top 1% Elite, greedy grasping, rich, corporation heads so that they can pad their bank accounts, buy backs stocks and mechanized production of whatever products it is that they make thereby decreasing whatever jobs used to be available. This is not progress, folks, this is how countries become failed governments like Zimbabwe and Somalia.
mr_sherman Premium Member over 6 years ago
If I said JLocke was a cruel SOB, I would be repeating myself.
Mr. Blawt over 6 years ago
The GOP is trying to do a precarious highwire act while the Dems just want to expose the Tax plan for what is it. A cash giveaway to the rich on the backs of the middle class. Why can’t the Democrats just get along and give the middle class money to the rich? Isn’t that what we voted for?