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Actually, the tax cuts cut taxes for many people. And, despite what CNN reports, cutting taxes is populist because it increased economic output and creates jobs. You may be surprised to hear this, but when more people have jobs and have more choices concerning their own economic freedom, they like that!
Hardly.... the cost of living was the same as wage increases for the past 12 months. The U-6 — which includes people counted in the official jobless rate, those who've tried to find a job in the past year but haven't looked in the past four weeks, and part-time workers who want a full-time job. September’s unadjusted U-6 was 7.1 percent. That’s 3.5 percentage points higher than the unadjusted unemployment rate. Cutting taxes in a strong economy doesn't create jobs or increase economic output, what it leads to is businesses buying back their own stock.
Actually, the tax cuts cut taxes for many people. And, despite what CNN reports, cutting taxes is populist because it increased economic output and creates jobs. You may be surprised to hear this, but when more people have jobs and have more choices concerning their own economic freedom, they like that!
You mean like that teacher that Paul Ryan bragged about on Twitter who got the extra $1.50 a week in her paycheck?
So yes,, it cut taxes for many people, but the cuts were highly regressive and favored the top. Trump still kept the loophole for hedge fund managers who pay long term capital gains rates on their income.... the swamp is alive and thriving under the moron-in-chief
Yes we all like tax cuts but a few hundred dollars a year extra for the average middle class earner and millions for the top 5 % of earners is what is being given back. On top of that everyone knows cutting taxes is easy. Cutting spending, which should have been part of the same bill, is not easy or popular and so far no one is screaming for spending cuts despite the huge deficit increase.
Sounds like typical Washington political process in action for our "drain-the-swamp" president.
Republicans don't care about the deficit until the other party is in power. How many right wingers complain about the debt Obama had to go into to pick up the pieces of the Bush great recession... while ignoring the fact that Bush doubled the national debt with two pointless wars and a tax cut he couldn't pay for during his 2 terms in office
Can you provide specific documentation of a Republican effort to abolish (not reform) these measures?
I thought not -- just as the use of Amazon CEO Bezos as a straw man (answered in Post #303) is a red herring.
It really shouldn't disturb anyone that the simple answers (for simple minds) presented over and over in Leftist rhetoric are wearing thinner every year; your day is coming.
Medicare and Social Security make up over 50% of the federal budget. Everything else except homeland security, at 16% is a distant second with percentages in the 1-4% range. Where do you suppose the GOP will go to get money to pay for their tax cuts? Hmmm? Mitch McConnell has already highly criticized medicare and social security, on camera, as the major cause for creating this deficit. Gee, i wonder why he chose those two programs out of the federal budget, as opposed to something else that only makes up 1% of the budget. There's 4 trillion dollar more in tax cuts coming. Where, where is that coming from to pay for it?? The only simple minded people here are the ones who listens to Trump speeches and thinks, that man knows what he's talking about, i'm not going to bother reading or listening to anyone else.
How is passing tax cuts for the 1% being a populist?
the tax cuts were for EVERYONE
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