2017 "Tax Reform": They'll Screw This Up Too, Right? - Page 53 - Politics and Economics

I can’t fathom having billions of dollars—more money than nearly anyone in the history of civilization had been able to accumulate, enough money that my family would not have to work for several generations, at least—and, yet my primary concern is to force politicians to slash the safety net for millions of people, **** over people who pursue higher education, undermine important institutions, strip health insurance from millions of people do whatever it takes just to accumulate a little more money, relatatively speaking. What sad, despicable humans.The donors pushing this stuff need to be punished.

12-01-2017 , 05:30 PM

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MrWookie

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I thought the parliamentarian nixed the drilling yesterday

12-01-2017 , 05:34 PM

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JoltinJake

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Originally Posted by champstark

WAAF, read this whole thread (2+2 needs to let whole thread be embedded)

the tl;dr: voters have absolutely refused to believe politicians would actually do huge tax cuts for the rich on THREE separate occasions in the past 20 years

Good thread, though I do think some people are starting to wise up. Hopefully enough people to make a difference.

12-01-2017 , 05:44 PM

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Pwn_Master

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Originally Posted by JoltinJake

Good thread, though I do think some people are starting to wise up. Hopefully enough people to make a difference.

Yeah, somehow the GOP have managed to make these tax cuts more unpopular than past tax INCREASES:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ast-tax-hikes/

People aren't fooled by Trump's lies, they just play along with them when it achieves the goals they want anyway, i.e. racism/xenophobia/misogyny for the base and tax cuts for the rich for the donor class.

12-01-2017 , 05:44 PM

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dth123451

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Originally Posted by Money2Burn

Eagerly awaiting the NYT "Charles Koch, just like you, eats food and takes ****s" normalization article.

12-01-2017 , 05:53 PM

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Namath12

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Corker is a no but doesn't matter because Collins is going to **** the bed and vote yes

12-01-2017 , 06:29 PM

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amead

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So is this the bill that's going to make filing my tax return as easy as filling out the back of a post card?

12-01-2017 , 06:54 PM

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pvn

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corker is a no

12-01-2017 , 07:27 PM

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SuperUberBob

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Unsurprising that this would pass. This was what they were elected to do. The Dems were elected to give healthcare. The Reps were elected to give tax breaks to the rich.

12-01-2017 , 07:49 PM

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Wooders0n

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Originally Posted by Money2Burn

What I dont get is why people dont just literally storm their mansions and murder them and their families. There's not really that many of these guys out there and its completely insane that the billions of people they **** over even remotely tolerate it.

12-01-2017 , 07:56 PM

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jsb235

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Originally Posted by Wooders0n

To some extent, this is what happened in Venezuela. Income inequality became so bad that Chavez won elections simply by pledging to make the lives of rich people just as crappy as the lives of poor people.

It's funny because a lot of US media reports are focused on how bad the situation in the country is right now, but what they fail to understand is that, for the vast majority of the population, their lives haven't fundamentally changed.

12-01-2017 , 08:20 PM

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wheatrich

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bill has a lot of writing in the margins, arrows, giant X's. Just how it's supposed to work.

12-01-2017 , 08:26 PM

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fatkid

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Originally Posted by wheatrich

bill has a lot of writing in the margins, arrows, giant X's. Just how it's supposed to work.

Lol what the f.

12-01-2017 , 08:30 PM

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fatkid

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If I was Dick Durb I would draw a cock on it.

12-01-2017 , 08:40 PM

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wheatrich

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For those still in delusional land arguing about conference and all that.

12-01-2017 , 08:42 PM

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Loki

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the best people

12-01-2017 , 08:45 PM

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Matty Lice

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Is there a deadline for this bill? What's the rush tonight?

12-01-2017 , 08:52 PM

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fatkid

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Originally Posted by Matty Lice

Is there a deadline for this bill? What's the rush tonight?

Cuz nobody’s watching.

https://livestream.com/fednet/senate

12-01-2017 , 08:53 PM

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Huehuecoyotl

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Originally Posted by Matty Lice

Is there a deadline for this bill? What's the rush tonight?

The debt ceiling is coming up and Christmas holidays and the arbitrary have to get something done in 2017. Why tonight specifically, I don't know.

12-01-2017 , 09:07 PM

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zikzak

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It's Friday, everybody is paying attention to the Flynn thing, Trump's future is uncertain, gotta jam this thing through ASAP before the wheels come off.