Posted on 05/08/2019 3:09:31 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“There was a $2 trillion tax cut last year. Did you feel it? Did you get anything from it? Of course not. … All of it went to folks at the top and corporations.”
That was Joe Biden at a Pittsburgh union workers’ rally ten days ago.
C’mon, Joe. You know better.
It was an ironic kickoff from the guy who promised the Summer of Recovery in 2010. But the former vice president finds himself in the same politically awkward place as most of the Democratic presidential field and their congressional leaders.
Though they try to maintain the false narrative, the one that worked so well for them in the 2018 elections — that the Republican tax cuts only benefited the rich — the strong economy increasingly undermines their central argument.
Just last week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “Unfortunately, the evidence shows that most of the economic gains continue to benefit those already well off.” That, incredibly, was from her statement in response to the release of the extraordinary April jobs report.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
Dems put party before country. They are all deplorable. God bless PDJT!
Besides a NICE amount more in my check every two weeks and a nice raise, I haven’t felt it at all :)
I’m not rich.
Middle class, but it sure feels GREAT to take home more and see a raise that wasn’t in the FOREVER 3 percent range.
Winning...
By the way, whatever happened to all that taxpayer-supplied stimulus money that Sheriff Joe was supposed to watch like a hawk?
My wife and I ended up paying out a total of $1,800 more at filing time, but only AFTER getting withholding reduced by more than $350 monthly since last April, so we came out way ahead. Those squawkers complaining about reduced refunds and higher payouts at filing time conveniently ignore the fact their tax cut was front-loaded monthly for eight months prior.
To a Democrat the end justifies the means.
To be able to lie in face of overwhelming proof you are telling a lie is a great benefit to Democrats. Of course they would not be able to get away with it if it was not for the fact the majority in the media will cover for their lies and never call them out.
It is something we as conservatives just need to accept.
Don’t give up hope. This situation will not continue forever, eventually the whole house of cards will collapse because of their lies.
The old Soviet Union had 100% control over the media and they had secret police to go after anyone dissenting from the party line, yet they failed. The Soviet Union no longer exist.
One (but not the main) reason they failed was because the lies being told did not match the reality ordinary people could see with their own eyes.
The lies the Democrats are currently telling do not match reality. Lincoln said it best, “You can fool some of the people all the time, and All the people some of the time, but you can not foll all the people all the time”
Trump is winning where it counts, the economy.
I love Trump but a post Depression economy( 2008 - 2016 ) should be growing at 4,5,6%, not 3%. There is way more upside here.
“I love Trump but a post Depression economy( 2008 - 2016 ) should be growing at 4,5,6%, not 3%. There is way more upside here.”
Maybe, but we should be thankful for what Trump has managed to accomplish all the while being battled by both Parties and the Media. There has been mention made of adding another two years to Trump’s first term. Just think what might have been if it had not been for the Russia Hoax. The country’s real problem doesn’t lie with President Trump. And just think where we would also be if China weren’t f*cking with our economy, and the negative impact of having to use tariffs on them to achieve a reasonable trade situation between the two countries. It really pi$$es me off what the stock market does every time Trump makes a move on China. “Investors” just want to make money and they are not patriotic in the least.
What negative impact? Tariffs promote US industry, decrease both the trade deficit and the budget deficit, so there is no down side to our tariffs. That is why all the other counties we trade with used them to block out exports. We are getting back to normal trade wise.
What you say is true, but that's not how some investors see the picture as evidenced by the tumbles the stock market takes every time Trump ratchets up tariffs, or so it seems to me. We have a segment of our economy that has been built on outsourcing to China. I was a senior procurement manager for a well-known Silicon Valley semiconductor mfg. equipment company twelve years ago. We were, at the direction of senior management working to move as much of our component needs to China as we were able. At that time the entire SV oligarchy was enamored with sending absolutely everything we could to China. Now I understand Purchasing involves buyers flying back and forth to China to keep tabs on the stuff made there. So now with the Trump Tariffs, these actions are very costly to those companies heavily invested in this outsourcing effort. And I suspect that their stocks are negatively affected by the increased tariffs. Costco would have to shut its doors if it could not stock its shelves with $hit from China.
IMVHO the individual cuts are nice, but the genius was the corporate tax cuts. Sadly those cuts are a hard sell, as the public at large probably doesn’t appreciate how much they are at play in this booming economy.
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