Please make the tax cuts retro-active to January 1, 2017--Discussion Thread

Open thread on your opinion regarding the tax cuts being retro active to January 1, 2017. Presently, the Congress is pushing that these tax cuts would apply to Tax year 2018. This makes absolutely no sense for many reasons.

American taxpayers need relief now. If the tax cuts are delayed until next year, then in 2018, an election year, Americans and American business will see no change in their incomes.

They are increasing the standard deduction and eliminating the personal exemption. So not doubling as they have used as a talking point - they are giving less than $6k and taking away a little over 4k and eliminating several deductions so not exactly as they make it sound.

If you are familiar with the tax forms, those little boxes at the top where you list yourself, spouse, children, etc. and add the total are the number of exemptions. They will be gone $4050 for each one.

Paul Ryan can keep my ‘tax cut’ if he'll throw all the damn illegals out of the country and build a wall to keep them out.

Mitch McConnell can keep my tax cut if Congress will agree to do their job so Trump can do his job making American Great Again...In short if he'll work WITH our President - NOT against him.

Oh, and Paul Ryan and Congress? You're NOT ‘giving’ me money - you're just NOT stealing as much for the UN, illegals, bloated State Department escapades, and little ‘perks’ for congressmen and DC ‘elites’... So don't expect wild gratitude. If you could steal more for your donors you probably would... we know that...

LMFAO!!!!
Do you REALLY believe the UniParty is going to allow money to flow from their coffers back to the “unwashed masses”???? And at the same time, make their arch enemy, President Trump, look good??? Really? IF so, I have some fine ocean-front property in the middle of Kansas that I’ll make ya one heckuva deal on. /s
The UniParty is NOT going to allow anything that will help hard-working, tax-paying American citizens and President Trump. How do I know that it’s never gonna pass? Because the UniParty has allowed the repeal of the ObamaCare mandate to be included. The ONLY way the UniParty would EVER let that be put in there is that they know the bill is gonna fail, but it gives their members some cover with their constituency back home so they can say e tried”. It’s all theatre for us, the “unwashed”.
Here’s the deal: When Eddie Munster and the Turtle send President Trump the exact same ObamaCare repeal bill that they sent Obama, I’ll start having a little faith in govt. again. They won’ do it because they KNOW Trump will sign it and they don’t WANT it repealed. They’re liars and traitors. The GOPe arm of the UniParty is a NOTHING BURGER. They’ve done nothing, aren’t doing anything now and won’t do anything in the future....unless, of course, it benefits them and the UniParty.

1) “No post ex-facto law shall obtain.”

2) You need a certain amount of lead time to implement changes to the IRS tax code and to the Agency itself. You have to redo 6 or 7 months of preparation in 1 1/2 months, rewrite some portion of 2017 computer code, redo all the previously loaded tables, test it and and make certain it all works together, retrain IRS staff, rewrite all the training manuals for that tax year, rewrite website information and publications. It would be chaos. Its like asking an aircraft carrier to go from 40 knots to 5 knots and make a 180 degree turn in 1 mile. If you could do it all on a postcard, maybe, but you can be sure that when this congress finishes, your return will not fit on a postcard.

Bad idea, its too late. Whatever they cobble together should be inplemented next year.

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