Lil’ Corker and Flake(y) members of the congressional hush-slush fund?
HOW ABOUT A ‘CUT SPENDING’ TRIGGER???
IMPLEMENT THE PENNY PLAN NOW!
EVERY SINGLE AGENCY CAN HANDLE A 1% CUT.
DO IT EVERY YEAR UNTIL THE BUDGET IS BALANCED AND WE START PAYING DOWN THE DEBT.
This swamp focused interest in tax reform aka deficit increase rather than THE WALL and kill Obamacare has been horrible from day 1.
Rid us of RINOs.
Baked in automatic tax increases. Nice. This bill gets worse all the time.
Congress absolutely hates lowering taxes on individuals.
Debt trigger? LOL
The double the National Debt in eight years under Obama and I never heard the term “debt trigger” the whole damn time.
Lankford is a nobody first term Senator. He better be careful pushing so hard for a tax increase.
I am absolutely opposed to the new tax bill as it will raise MY taxes by several thousand dollars per year.
However, the idea of an automatic, triggered tax hike “just in case” is clearly some of the stupidest sh!t I ever heard come from a Republican.
And everyone know Republicans are at least as stupid as Democrats, but far less transparent about it.
Maybe I’ll luck out and this poison pill will kill the bill.
Just so the trigger would automatically trigger a cut in government spending in TN and AZ.
Penny plan please. Dumbassery going on.
A trigger means that none of the benefits we could expect from this bill would materialize. Companies and individuals would expect the trigger to be triggered and not invest to the extent they otherwise would. This is a self fulfulling mechanism. Government is full of idiots.
The trigger is a bad idea. It would kick in if and only if it would also be a devastating blow to the economy. But the bill is not a “mystery” because it’s unknown whether the trigger will be included. Quite the contrary: the Senate is allowing consideration of amendments! GASP! And it’s unknown YET whether the final Senate bill will include the trigger BECAUSE THE TRIGGER HASN’T COME UP FOR A VOTE.
After the Senate votes on the trigger, it will then know whether the trigger is included in the final bill.
Spend trigger should be more like it. When I realize my family will take in less money, I have to cut back on what I spend. Congress is soooooo screwed up! Please, let the revolution begin!
Senator Flake was just fishing for, digging for, hoping for something... ANYTHING... that would allow him to keep the high moral road and stick a big knife on Trump’s back.
He found it. He is SOOOOooo concerned about increasing the deficit! /s
Oh, now in good conscience he can cast a ‘NO’ vote. I hope others see through this and ostracize him from any future public life.
Keeping things in perspective, 1.5 Trillion over 10 years is nothing compared to Obama’s 10 Trillion over 8 years.
Also by definition 1.5 trillion does not ‘substantially increase the debt’
By definition.
Because to go forwards with a 50 vote reconciliation, the Byrd amendment says that it can only happen if it does not ‘substantially increase the debt’. The number everybody in the senate agreed that meets that criteria was 1.5 Trillion.
How about a debt trigger to CUT SPENDING?