Same, also deeply saddened

I hadn't p0sted in a while, getting rusty.

Huge, if true.

I'll actually look later, but that would be absolutely hilarious. By the way, as I've posted about before, most meaningful (i.e., large) American corporations pay less than 20% anyway - the whole ruse of corporate tax reduction is built on the fake premise that corporations pay the "highest rates in the first world." That ruse is based upon the fiction that the rates are the rates, when the reality is that deductions, loopholes, offshoring and standard tax planning cause corporate tax rates to plummet - sometimes literally to 0, resulting in the AMT being paid if the entity has exposure, which itself can be avoided.

Re-instituting a 20% corporate AMT would, hilariously, functionally raise corporate taxes on most meaningful tax-paying corporations, thereby undoing the cut.

guys, don't worry about taking care of the poor because the poor will always be taken care of

I feel like I've been had somehow, oh well.

Really want that twitter thread about the AMT to be true and the house to not pass this bill

other ppl seem to be commenting on the same thing now

https://twitter.com/lilybatch/status/938251082194669569

I think my "Corporate tax rate will not be cut before 12/31/2017" shares are still live! Not so sure about my "before 3/31/2018" shares.

I think the biggest risk was that the house was simply vote on the Senate bill, without going through reconciliation. If Republicans truly thought that the Senate bill was decent, I think that was absolutely the best strategy. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but I think there's a good chance reconciliation is going to fail.

Yeah, it was democratic policy to make a prosecutor try a case for first degree murder when anything above manslaughter was basically impossible.

good job, good effort

Dudes, why are you insisting on falling for such weak ass trolling?

I mean, twitter and forum culture is just all layups even if a 5 year old just gave you the ball.

All he wants is a typical liberal response. If he actually cared about being dunked on, he wouldn't be posting like this. He wants to see the usual liberal dunks to confirm that he'd know the liberals were thinking. Fly was at least relatively novel in his assessment of mbp.

From all the analysis I've seen in other places, it appears to be correct that the GOP ****ed the dog on this one big time. I think that if they hadn't ****ed this up, the House would have likely passed the Senate bill by now and avoided GOP Senators having buyer's remorse.

Finally some middle ground. Obama's drone policy was so far beyond the pale we can't simply disagree with him (even though he's the captain of our favorite team) he must be a:

"DESPICABLE HUMAN BEINGS AIDING AND ABETTING ALL OF THIS ****. **** them!"


At least we're being consistent now.

why? hoya made good points. and articulately.

Being Republican really is a stupid filter. Even for the congressional staff. Guess it usually doesn't matter when you're just trying to burn everything down.

At this point, if you are a GOPer, you are either evil, stupid or (most commonly) both. It's that simple.

Don't even try to pretend that your criticism of Obama's droning is due to your love and respect to innocent brown people. Cmon man

Repubs: Kill all Muslims
Also repubs: Obama is bad because he killed Muslims

for the same reason I don't let my daughter feed stray cats

It's turning into quite a show and I love it.

Even if AMT issue is "fixed," however you define that, the House is in danger of losing every GOP vote from CA, NY, and NJ over SALT deductions.

14 from CA + 9 from NY + 5 from NJ + 193 Democrats = 221

218 needed to pass. Hmmm...

They'll fall in line. Pay some ****ing attention people, they care exactly zero about their constituents and very much about the million dollar job some billionaire will give them when they leave Congress.

I agree with that, but their evilness is rivaled only by their incompetence, so this has a legit shot of not passing.

They may fall in line but they're already at risk (most of them anyway) of losing their seats in 2018 and this is only going to make it worse.

"My opponent voted to raise your taxes. My opponent's part seated a pedophile to the US Senate." The ads will write themselves.

That's where the million dollar job comes in