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Get StartedOops...I thought I was on the game thread....
Carry on....the heck with the Donald...
Unintended posts can be deleted, yanno?
Republicans have been enriching the millionaires, billionaires, and Big Business for more than 50 years, but tens of millions still vote for them, mostly b/c aryan baby jeebus says so.
But since SCOTUS ruled in favor of Citizens United, the socioeconomic deck will forever be stacked against we of the great unwashed. It is an exercise in futility to run for federal office, absent the support and funding of corporate personhood.
Disclaimer: none of what this tax-cut does or doesn't do, impacts me directly. But I have liittle doubt that Congress will get to me as well, sooner or later. We all need to make patriotic sacrifices for good ol' fashioned Red White and Blue Murkin Capitalism to further prosper and thrive.
I'm honestly a little worried my middle class home is going to become a financial anchor. Middle class is getting gutted with or without this tax bill, but this will turn it up a notch. Seems reasonable to me that the high end of the housing market can thrive while the middle languishes.
There were hints of fiscal responsibility in the past. The Democrats were tax and spend, republicans wanted lower taxes and lower spending, now they don't care much about the spending part.
Oops...I thought I was on the game thread....
Carry on....the heck with the Donald...
Interesting look at the tax winners and losers
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ook-like-for-25000-middle-class-families.html
If you are middle class and take the standard deduction, you're probably getting a tax cut. If you pay a lot of state and local tax, you are probably getting a tax increase.
Interesting look at the tax winners and losers
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ook-like-for-25000-middle-class-families.html
If you are middle class and take the standard deduction, you're probably getting a tax cut. If you pay a lot of state and local tax, you are probably getting a tax increase.
Of all the damage that Trump can do/has done, this is relatively minimal. Republican presidents lower taxes on the rich and corporations, Democrats raise them. Of course the GOP has shifted from responsibility to helping the rich no matter the cost but it's cyclical. These tax cuts are also largely unpopular so it could hurt them in 2018. I'm a little more concerned about them gutting the EPA and endorsing a child molester for Senate.
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