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To: enumerated
If they want to cut taxes, I am all for it. But this "tax cut" had to be revenue neutral to satisfy the Byrd Rule. Therefore, it wasn't a tax cut for everyone. They picked clear winners and losers. Corporations were favored over millions in the middle class. The law still explodes the deficit over ten years, and it raised taxes on many Americans by eliminating or capping deductions that have been in the tax code for decades (some since 1913).

Many will be getting a tax increase, not a cut. The Republicans needed $1.4 Trillion in revenue to compensate for slashing the corporate rate from 35% to 21% - and they stuck the bill to pay for that to many middle class and upper middle class Americans.

Even Mark Levin stated on his program that this is NOT what Trump and the Republicans ran on. Raising taxes on millions of middle class Americans was not part of the campaign rhetoric - but that is precisely what they did. People that bought homes and built lives based on these assumption have been stabbed in the neck by the GOPe.

You should be complaining to Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell - not to me.

66 posted on 01/13/2018 8:55:39 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Some the of upper levels of taxpayers will have a tax increase but the vast majority will get cuts. Do the math using the Gross Household Income as a basis.

You need to get rid of the idea that corporations pay taxes, they don’t because the alleged tax is passed on to consumers. Business taxes are just hidden individual taxes.


94 posted on 01/13/2018 2:15:43 PM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: SkyPilot

Yes, I agree but then blame it on the Byrd rule, not the corporate tax rate cuts.

Look at it this way: if the police catch the burglars that robbed your neighbor’s house, but not the burglars that robbed your house - you have a a legitimate complaint - namely that they should get off their ass and catch the theives that stole from you.

But if you complain that the police shouldn’t have caught the burglars that stole from your neighbor - that’s not the right complaint (IMHO).

Yes, it sucks our taxes weren’t cut but any tax cuts are a good thing.

That Byrd rule is crap - and so are all the supposedly nonpartisan scoring agencies that fail to account for the growth impact of tax cuts, and fail to account firthe fact that the government is way to big.

Blame the leftists that overtax and over spend, don’t blame the people who cut taxes.


96 posted on 01/13/2018 2:24:56 PM PST by enumerated
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