Democrats Don't Have a Messaging Problem on Tax Reform. They Have a Reality Problem.

Townhall.com ^ | February 21, 2018 | Guy Benson

[jazusamo]

This is about as clean a political win as you're going to see these days, so Republicans are absolutely right to be pressing their advantage. They've earned it. They withstood weeks of withering and punishing demagoguery from Democrats and much of the press -- which also happened to be highly inaccurate and laughably hyperbolic -- and ultimately stuck together to pass a controversial and unpopular bill. The legislation would hurt the middle class and bring about the apocalypse, Democrats argued. Republicans countered that their plan would actually benefit the vast majority of American taxpayers and help US businesses. The Republicans were right. As people began to witness a parade of companies shelling out tax reform bonuses, stepping up employee benefits, boosting hourly wages, reducing prices for consumers, and expanding operations, support for the once-disliked law bounced dramatically, sailing 20 points northward across a swath of polling. Democrats' fear-mongering was being shredded in real time, by indisputable and unspinnable events.

But then the second shoe dropped: Tens of millions of workers looking at their paychecks and noticing a bump in their income, thanks to the very tax cuts Democrats insisted wouldn't help average people. The succeeding law's political opponents thus began desperately flailing, dismissing bonuses and wage increases as "crumbs" and even mocking lower-income workers for being so stupid as to appreciate their own modest tax breaks. The result, as Matt covered yesterday, has been another extraordinary surge in the new law's popularity:

Republicans now strongly back the plan, with Democratic opposition softening noticeably, but the real story is independents -- whose support > has spiked from the mid-30's to an outright majority. Overall, between December and January, favorable views of tax reform gained 18 net...

[allendale]

Real Americans never vote Democrat.

[bert]

Pelosi is at best a Marxist that firmly believes the profits of business belong to the workers. On that basis the profits accrued to the stock holders are cake that is beneficial to the rich and the workers get only crumbs.

She is first and foremost in the belief that profits are the rightful property of the workers that enabled them.

She is pure anti capitalist Ameritrash

[jazusamo]

Amen to that!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Lol. Nancy Pelosi said this tax bill was Armageddon.

Armageddon for whom? Maybe political Armageddon for Democrats?

[EagleUSA]

Reality puts the RATS out of business. Like TRUTH does.

[jazusamo]

MAGA!

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[ExTexasRedhead]

DemocRAT messaging problem created by and proudly led by Piglosi shown in this RNC ad.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/new-rnc-ad-hits-democrats-pouting-sotu-stand/

[jazusamo]

Outstanding!

In this case the truth really hurts them.

[itsahoot]

She is first and foremost in the belief that profits are the rightful property of the workers that enabled them.

Then why does she have non union underpaid workers in all her businesses?

[Retvet]

If $1000 is a crumb my social security cost of living allowance musk be a photon.

[Truthoverpower]

Who the hell doesn’t want to keep more of their money ?
Even 90 percent of dumbocraps will agree with this
I think theyre dead meat and I give Trump 100 percent credit
Who the he’ll else could get the do nothing congress to pass that tax bill and signed by Xmas in the first year ? No one

[WMarshal]

“Then why does she have non union underpaid workers in all her businesses?”

Pelosi does this because “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

[cgbg]

Pelosi needs to explain that .gov needs more money to fight Russian trolls!

[ExTexasRedhead]

We Deplorables must send this ad viral at every opportunity to showcase the anti-American attitude of the RATs.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Here we go again, with the left you must always assume that they are rational by their own standards. You most also interpret the meaning of their statements.

“The legislation would hurt the middle class and bring about the apocalypse...”

Freepers, I am sure know who the middle class is but do FRs know who the Dems are talking about when they say “middle class”? For the Dems middle class means employees in government, schools, union, and NGO jobs. It also means anyone who is of middle class income derived from government programs such as Social Security. When combined all of those people may will be the majority of the middle class.

So the Dems are not mistaken, misguided, or stupid. They are essentially correct and speaking to their people.