transporter
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Any moment the far right wingers are going to come on and start posting about the glorious victory that occurred in the Senate this morning.
They will get all lathered up because "Trump won". (Yes, he did...assuming this farce makes it thru reconciliation...he and his kids will save hugely on their tax bills!)
And they will conveniently forget the following:
1. Trump promised the middle class a massive tax cut. A lie. What passed this morning was a giveback to the donor-class. Average Americans will see little to no impact...will have any positive impacts taken away AND will likely see cuts to Medicare and Medicaid once the negative impact to the annual deficit and gross debt come into focus. (Those without the right wing blinders on already understand this.)
2. Trump said he would lose "massively" from this tax cuts. A lie.
3. Everyone of the uninformed and ignorant who voted for this man in the primaries did so to shake things up...to "drain the swamp". The bill wasn't brought to the floor to a vote till after 1:30am. I watched as the final roll was called and victory was declared at 1:59am. No one saw the final version. None of the people who voted for it know what is in it because it was being amended by hand at the last minute (remember all your complaints about the ACA?). Give aways to individual Senators. No input from the other side of the aisle. A middle of the night vote on a bill that no one has read. Is this what you people consider draining the swamp. EVERYTHING Trump voters claimed to have voted FOR was violated in this process. But the blind cultists will bleat out their appreciation and proclaim their continued devotion to a man who has done nothing but lie to them and prove daily how unqualified he is to be OUR President.
4. They will trumpet the massive economic growth that will occur due to tax cuts. They will claim the tax cuts will "pay for themselves". They will be wrong (Gilligan), as usual. Neither of these came to pass under Reagan (when this had the most potential to occur--look at the rise in the debt under Reagan) and they won't occur now (when the potential is almost zero). We have low unemployment, low inflation and an economy growing (as it has been) at a sustainable pace. That is not an environment that justifies tax cuts. The basic math of tax cuts and growth continually escapes the cultists. Tax revenue is currently running a little below 20% of GDP (govt spends about 23% of GDP--and growing due to Baby Boomers). So here is the basic relationship that folks like Gilligan cannot grasp. In order to make up a dollar of tax cuts via economic growth, every dollar of tax cuts will have to result in 5 dollars of additional economic growth. That has never happened anywhere in history. It only happens on TV and the internet when spinsters, hucksters, propagandists and politicians try to sell an uneducated public on the merits of giving a massive tax break to the richest members of our society. Joe the Plumber will not have see any significant long term benefit from this...in reality the long term benefit is very likely to be negative. Bu hey, who cares!! Ivanka, Don Jr and the rest of the lucky sperm club get to keep their billions!! HURRAH!!! HURRAH!! HURRAH!!!
This bill is not in the long term interest of the country. But that is not what you all voted for is it? You voted for a lying narcissist whose sole goal was to enrich himself and feed his wildly overinflated ego. Well, as you say, you got what you voted for and Trump potentially gets his first major legislative win at the expense of the very people who put him in office. MAGA!!! MAGA!!! MAGA!!!
They will get all lathered up because "Trump won". (Yes, he did...assuming this farce makes it thru reconciliation...he and his kids will save hugely on their tax bills!)
And they will conveniently forget the following:
1. Trump promised the middle class a massive tax cut. A lie. What passed this morning was a giveback to the donor-class. Average Americans will see little to no impact...will have any positive impacts taken away AND will likely see cuts to Medicare and Medicaid once the negative impact to the annual deficit and gross debt come into focus. (Those without the right wing blinders on already understand this.)
2. Trump said he would lose "massively" from this tax cuts. A lie.
3. Everyone of the uninformed and ignorant who voted for this man in the primaries did so to shake things up...to "drain the swamp". The bill wasn't brought to the floor to a vote till after 1:30am. I watched as the final roll was called and victory was declared at 1:59am. No one saw the final version. None of the people who voted for it know what is in it because it was being amended by hand at the last minute (remember all your complaints about the ACA?). Give aways to individual Senators. No input from the other side of the aisle. A middle of the night vote on a bill that no one has read. Is this what you people consider draining the swamp. EVERYTHING Trump voters claimed to have voted FOR was violated in this process. But the blind cultists will bleat out their appreciation and proclaim their continued devotion to a man who has done nothing but lie to them and prove daily how unqualified he is to be OUR President.
4. They will trumpet the massive economic growth that will occur due to tax cuts. They will claim the tax cuts will "pay for themselves". They will be wrong (Gilligan), as usual. Neither of these came to pass under Reagan (when this had the most potential to occur--look at the rise in the debt under Reagan) and they won't occur now (when the potential is almost zero). We have low unemployment, low inflation and an economy growing (as it has been) at a sustainable pace. That is not an environment that justifies tax cuts. The basic math of tax cuts and growth continually escapes the cultists. Tax revenue is currently running a little below 20% of GDP (govt spends about 23% of GDP--and growing due to Baby Boomers). So here is the basic relationship that folks like Gilligan cannot grasp. In order to make up a dollar of tax cuts via economic growth, every dollar of tax cuts will have to result in 5 dollars of additional economic growth. That has never happened anywhere in history. It only happens on TV and the internet when spinsters, hucksters, propagandists and politicians try to sell an uneducated public on the merits of giving a massive tax break to the richest members of our society. Joe the Plumber will not have see any significant long term benefit from this...in reality the long term benefit is very likely to be negative. Bu hey, who cares!! Ivanka, Don Jr and the rest of the lucky sperm club get to keep their billions!! HURRAH!!! HURRAH!! HURRAH!!!
This bill is not in the long term interest of the country. But that is not what you all voted for is it? You voted for a lying narcissist whose sole goal was to enrich himself and feed his wildly overinflated ego. Well, as you say, you got what you voted for and Trump potentially gets his first major legislative win at the expense of the very people who put him in office. MAGA!!! MAGA!!! MAGA!!!