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Old 11-02-2017, 08:51 AM
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The Republican Tax Plan Is Chaos and Suicide

The Republican Tax Plan Is Chaos and Suicide All at Once
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The only things one can be sure of regarding whatever it is that the Republican congressional majorities come up with for a tax plan is that it will shove more of the nation’s wealth upwards, that the math will be mostly magical thinking, and that there will be various strategies employed to keep the country from noticing these first two characteristics.
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Look at this mess. Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin, who is perhaps the worst legislative politician since the Five Minutes of Bob Livingston passed into history, desperately needs this win. Passage of this tax bill is the only reason he’s put up with the antics out of Camp Runamuck at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. But, unfortunately, those pesky 2018 midterms have put the gallows in everyone’s eyes, especially Ryan’s.
Yes, as Trump has promised, the tax cuts will be huge but preferably no one will know who will pay for it. Another GOP train wreck in the making? One hopes not unless the bill self destructs. Good news is that Trump will be away and hopefully he will take his Tweeter with him.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...chaos-suicide/
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Old 11-02-2017, 09:57 AM
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Paul Ryan is an evil dude so hopefully he did not make a pact with the devil? that is about the only way I see this rich persons benefit passing on to the orange one's desk after the senate creeps get their hands on it? I hope...
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Old 11-02-2017, 12:46 PM
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The Republican Tax Plan Is Chaos and Suicide All at Once


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Yes, as Trump has promised, the tax cuts will be huge but preferably no one will know who will pay for it. Another GOP train wreck in the making? One hopes not unless the bill self destructs. Good news is that Trump will be away and hopefully he will take his Tweeter with him.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...chaos-suicide/
It's a train wreck the republicans will ignore until the next democrat is in office and then they will blame that democrat, just like they did with Bush and his recession, his failure to protect americans on 9/11 and his wars of profit.
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Old 11-02-2017, 01:15 PM
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The Republican Tax Plan Is Chaos and Suicide All at Once

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Yes, as Trump has promised, the tax cuts will be huge but preferably no one will know who will pay for it. Another GOP train wreck in the making? One hopes not unless the bill self destructs. Good news is that Trump will be away and hopefully he will take his Tweeter with him.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...chaos-suicide/
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Old 11-02-2017, 08:28 PM
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Watching Liz Warren shred the Repube tax bill on The News Hour. She's always a pleasure to watch expose their lies.
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Old 11-02-2017, 08:43 PM
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One good way to understand what’s going on with this latest exercise in financial misdirection is to notice that this plan will tax the interest payment on one student’s loans, but that it may no longer tax another student’s multibillion-dollar inheritance.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...ican-tax-plan/
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One good way to understand what’s going on with this latest exercise in financial misdirection is to notice that this plan will tax the interest payment on one student’s loans, but that it may no longer tax another student’s multibillion-dollar inheritance.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...ican-tax-plan/
Plus there is this also in the bill for the wealthy.


"" Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ school-choice agenda is getting a bit of a boost from the Republican tax bill, which would allow parents to use education savings accounts to pay tuition at private elementary and secondary schools. ""

http://ktar.com/story/1818051/republ...school-choice/



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Old 11-12-2017, 09:08 AM
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Plus there is this also in the bill for the wealthy.


"" Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ school-choice agenda is getting a bit of a boost from the Republican tax bill, which would allow parents to use education savings accounts to pay tuition at private elementary and secondary schools. ""

http://ktar.com/story/1818051/republ...school-choice/

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How is that "for the wealthy"? We live in a solidly middle class area, and there are plenty of parents who sacrifice for their kids and send them to schools of their choice, or home school. Our city actually has a pretty good school system to boot: not the very best but a long way from the worst. So these parents not only pay taxes to support the city school system, they pay tuition to the school of their choice. Why shouldn't they get some relief from "double-paying" to send their kids to the school of their choice?
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How is that "for the wealthy"? We live in a solidly middle class area, and there are plenty of parents who sacrifice for their kids and send them to schools of their choice, or home school. Our city actually has a pretty good school system to boot: not the very best but a long way from the worst. So these parents not only pay taxes to support the city school system, they pay tuition to the school of their choice. Why shouldn't they get some relief from "double-paying" to send their kids to the school of their choice?
For the same reason our taxes pay for roads we never use ourselves, it's part of our common infrastructure.
Likewise, we can put roads on private property if we pay for them ourselves, whether we leave or not.
The money should go where it is really needed, to improve common infrastructure for the common good. Individuals may pay for what they want in addition for thenselves.
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Old 11-12-2017, 01:18 PM
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How is that "for the wealthy"? We live in a solidly middle class area, and there are plenty of parents who sacrifice for their kids and send them to schools of their choice, or home school. Our city actually has a pretty good school system to boot: not the very best but a long way from the worst. So these parents not only pay taxes to support the city school system, they pay tuition to the school of their choice. Why shouldn't they get some relief from "double-paying" to send their kids to the school of their choice?
I sent my son to private schools, because they provided smaller classrooms resulting in more focused education for him. He went on to graduate from a public university.

I'm fortunate that I was able to afford it. Most parents can't. I certainly don't mind paying my share of providing our kids with free public education, even now that I no longer have kids in school. They are our future, after all. I fail to comprehend how selfish Repubes have SUCH difficulty understanding such basic things.
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