House Democrats Are Lining Up Behind What Could Be The Largest Expansion Of Government In Decades

Daily Caller ^ | 25DEC18 | Michael Bastasch

[castowell]

Waiting for certain Republicans lining up behind this plan in ..... 1.....2.......

[EdnaMode]

Let Hollywood, the NFL and NBA pay for it.

[Fiddlstix]

[steel_resolve]

It’s only an expansion if Trump signs it, and that will never happen. So why not call it what it is? An unworkable wish list full of socialist pipe dreams?

[Gritty]

I don't know why they keep trotting out these various trillions of dollars in comparisons ...

After all, this stuff is all "free" isn't it?

[Libloather]

Democrats are lining up to support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal.”

Does that mean that they'll tear down their mansions and begin walking to work? RATS should show us how it's done.

[right way right]

Hopefully she causes her nutzie party to divide into weakness.

Here come Occasional Cortex’s NUTZIE party everyone!

[SaveFerris]

Well, Brian WAS the last survivor of the Nostromo.....in the future......

[Fiddlstix]

He certainly does get around, huh?

[SaveFerris]

I'll never forget him at Normandy - the guy is amazing! Somebody stole his flak jacket and helmet, too!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I’m essential employee...no time off, wish I had the paid vacation!

[MountainWalker]

Hopefully they put all of these insane ideas into bills that Trump can run against in 2020. See how much swing voters don’t like Trump’s tweets when astronomical energy taxes are the alternative.

I will say this: next time Democrats control both houses of Congress and the WH and a few Senators stand between them getting one of these enormous boondoggles, the sacred filibuster that the GOP has done everything to protect will then be over.

[USCG SimTech]

You don’t engage government resources to prosecute a solution to a problem that is a theory demonstrated in computer models.

[faithhopecharity]

The leftist D’s are so out of it , it’s anazing!

[Hodar]

Those Federal employees get back pay for all the days they didn’t work.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But what is assured that people who did nothing wrong will get a reduced paycheck, have to take loans out to pay the mortgage or other financial hardships; for a reason that their elected Congressmen failed to do their jobs. I work for NASA and am directly impacted. I support Pres Trump and have unpaid time off for the foreseeable future. I cannot take a trip, because as soon as a bill is signed I must be back to work. Meanwhile, my car loan, mortgage and utilities see to be paid, as does my groceries and other living expenses. Maybe I will get backpay, maybe not. But to call it a vacation is insulting. It’s unpaid time off without a return date.

[piytar]

They’ve done it before. The top marginal tax rate under Carter was 78%. They want to do it again.

[flamberge]

They would have to tax everything at 80%.

Well, of course. That is their intention.

The Leftists want a liquidation economy that eliminates the middle class. What they will have left is a natural aristocracy (themselves) ruling with absolute power over an impoverished peasantry.

"Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven"

[basalt]

why is this garbage column even being printed...this non -sense has zero chance of ever being enacted in this country...you think the French climate tax revolt riots are bad??....

[piytar]

Yeah, mostly President Trump. If he didn’t have a lot of control - fighting for us - they wouldn’t bother attacking him so incessantly.

PS President Trump just awarded two contracts for more border wall/fence in TX and CA. Yeah, he worked on Christmas Eve and Christmas. The TX stretch is over 100 miles long. Forget how long the CA stretch is. That’s called winning.

[Dad was my hero]

Took 16 posts before someone mentioned the obvious.