Someone's gotta pay for the Koch brothers' tax cuts (Atlanta: middle-class, credit)

[tdatl]

Looks like it may be a decent number of North Fulton residents:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.b560c9a84331

[DreamerD]

Well...you get what you vote for. From that article, it seems as if NY, Cali, and Jersey weren't having it! I bet if this money was being funneled to fund welfare programs, people on this forum/this country would already be posting and up in arms about it but since it's going to line the pockets of the super wealthy wealthy wealthy, not a word.

[DreamerD]

Originally Posted by 843904

Specific relevance to Atlanta? Zero. Bait topic? Absolutely (see thread title).

Mods?

Dude...did you read the article? Please try reading it. It's absolutely related to the Metro Atlanta area!

[843904]

I saw wash post & the bait title. My bad.

[Forhall]

The good news is that while Republican voters will look than other way while their party attacks minorities, restricts and removes civil rights, or removes healthcare from the poor, they will likely get up in arms once the party starts going for THEIR wallet.

What many Republican voters don't understand is that they aren't rich enough for the Republican party. The upper middle class Cobb voter thinks they're the ones that would benefit from Republican tax cuts, not realizing the GOP only caters to those with a net worth in the multiple millions at a minimum.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by Forhall

The good news is that while Republican voters will look than other way while their party attacks minorities, restricts and removes civil rights, or removes healthcare from the poor, they will likely get up in arms once the party starts going for THEIR wallet.

What many Republican voters don't understand is that they aren't rich enough for the Republican party. The upper middle class Cobb voter thinks they're the ones that would benefit from Republican tax cuts, not realizing the GOP only caters to those with a net worth in the multiple millions at a minimum.

There's a political forum.

This is not the place for your political rants.

[Forhall]

Originally Posted by bu2

There's a political forum.

This is not the place for your political rants.

All politics is local.

[fzx]

According to House Ways and Means Committee:


Increased standard deduction and child credit (1.6T) will be fully offset by revenues raised by repeal personal exemption deduction (1.6T); while personal tax rate cuts (1.1T) will be more than offset by repeal itemized deduction (1.3T). The only huge cuts come to repeal of individual AMT (0.7T) vs. alternative inflation measure (0.1T).


In other words, there will be winners and losers among individual tax payers. IMO, 90k-200k AGI will be hardest hit while people earning more than that will see a huge windfall because the repeal of alternative min tax.


Regarding Handel, she once more proves herself as just a rubber stamp, unless she trades us for Vogtle.

[Beretta]

Originally Posted by DreamerD

Dude...did you read the article? Please try reading it. It's absolutely related to the Metro Atlanta area!

Originally Posted by 843904

I saw wash post & the bait title. My bad.

The post is fine and I read the article and it is fine. If you want me to moderate a post or thread - please report it. Don't post in the thread. Thank you.

[AcidSnake]

It's not going to be pretty when these tax cuts coincide with the upcoming introduction of robots & Artificial Intelligence in a few years that will turn everything upside down.

Lawyers, accountants, truck drivers, fast food jobs, banking, all those jobs from white collar to blue collar will be taken away and replaced by robots with A.I.

China is already going max speed with pushing the robots. And the USA if it doesn't want to fall behind globally, will eventually have to bite the bullet and do the same.

White men will be displaced from jobs at obscene levels. And that situation will push more of them into drugs to sooth their depression...like the opiod epidemic that is happening in the rural areas of Georgia...and angry enough to go to the guns.

Republicans and the elites are emptying out the Treasury at their peril.

No money in the Treasury to help the displaced people when the robots and A.I. come a-knocking...means massive hunger strikes...and ultimately violence on a massive scale against the power structure.

Or maybe the violent revolution scenario is what the elites want to happen?

Who knows.

It's gonna get reeaaaaaaaaaal ugly in a few short years.

Time to prep, my fellow ATLiens!