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The GOP is stepping on their own feet. Sort of striking to see so much fumbling with the GOP controlling the POTUS, house, and senate, a total majority. In my lifetime I have never seen an administration appear to be so inept.
If they could create some money-making opportunities, say upping the military budget, all well and good.
But after years of flogging the national debt crisis tale, they have got to come up with some reason why tax cuts make sense. They've tried the old trickle-down nonsense and nobody is buying it. So now they are going with how much money we'll be saving by kicking millions off health insurance.
It's bound to be a tough sale, particularly for those who will be losing their medical care. Rural areas will really feel the pinch as they are bound to lose hospitals and medical providers.
I agree. They don't care if people have insurance or not.
They NEVER had a healthcare plan. NEVER
The House and Senate bills are about tax cuts. That's all they're concerned about.
Analysis | One reason the GOP health bill is a mess: No one thought Trump would win Toomey did not participate in detailed Republican planning sessions on the Senate Finance Committee about how to reshape the nation’s health laws if Trump won the election — because no such planning sessions were really ever held.
Every important Republican leader expected Democrat Hillary Clinton to win, and that left Republicans confused and paralyzed about how to proceed when she didn’t.
Moderator cut: copyright violation Analysis | One reason the GOP health bill is a mess: No one thought Trump would win
They had E-I-G-H-T~ Y-E-A-R-S to draft a health care plan while they belly-ached and promised daily to repeal and replace Obama-Care, but they had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING(not even a draft) to offer......DESPITE Trump's BS how "they had a better plan", ROTFLMBO,LOL!
That part about McConnell admitting defeat and shoring up ACA markets is quite humorous. He must really be desperate to show something positive, for the first time in his tenure. If the President can be removed by reason of mental incompetence, why not him, as well?
That's a very valid point pknopp about the tax payers bailing out some of the 1%, but what about the self made that hit it big? I'm sure some of them would resent being taxed more to pay for some one elses health care. What about lottery winners? Should they be expected to kick in an extra amount to fund health care?
Another valid point evilcart. Perhaps the laws need to be changed? Our accountant said the very same thing when we were trying to figure out how to minimize about a 30k capital gain on one of our income properties going on the market next year. She said the tax laws were written for the benefit of the 1%, not for us little people.
I was listening to one of the talking heads one morning discuss how all of everyone in the white house on down need to have the same health care that the rest of us have to have. I think all of the special perks need to be taken away. I wonder how many of them would fight for Ocare if that was all they had?
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