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Democrats Don't Have a Messaging Problem on Tax Reform. They Have a Reality Problem.
Townhall.com ^
| February 21, 2018
| Guy Benson
Posted on 02/21/2018 10:54:06 AM PST by 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...
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crumbs; democrats; midterms; pelosi; taxcuts; taxcutsandreformact
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:54:07 AM PST
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
Real Americans never vote Democrat.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:57:02 AM PST
by
allendale
(.)
To: jazusamo
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
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:01:25 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
To: bert
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:04:45 AM PST
by
jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Lol. Nancy Pelosi said this tax bill was Armageddon.
Armageddon for whom? Maybe political Armageddon for Democrats?
To: jazusamo
Reality puts the RATS out of business. Like TRUTH does.
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:09:16 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:29:04 AM PST
by
jazusamo
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To: jazusamo; bevperl; SkyPilot; unkus; ZULU; NFHale; rodguy911; sheik yerbouty; vette6387; ...
To: ExTexasRedhead
Outstanding!
In this case the truth really hurts them.
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:41:59 AM PST
by
jazusamo
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To: bert
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?
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:45:05 AM PST
by
itsahoot
(There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
To: jazusamo
If $1000 is a crumb my social security cost of living allowance musk be a photon.
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:45:36 AM PST
by
Retvet
(Retvet)
To: allendale
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
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:58:07 AM PST
by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: itsahoot
“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
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posted on
02/21/2018 12:05:25 PM PST
by
WMarshal
("IN AMERICA WE DON’T WORSHIP GOVERNMENT — WE WORSHIP GOD." POTUS tweet 2017)
To: jazusamo
Pelosi needs to explain that .gov needs more money to fight Russian trolls!
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posted on
02/21/2018 12:10:26 PM PST
by
cgbg
(Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
To: jazusamo
We Deplorables must send this ad viral at every opportunity to showcase the anti-American attitude of the RATs.
To: jazusamo
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.
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