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Trump supporters greet tax law with shrugs and measured hope
McClatchy (AP) ^ | Dec. 23, 2017 | Thomas Beaumont Nicholas Riccardi

Posted on 12/23/2017 8:01:42 PM PST by vladimir998

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To: lightman

Not that anyone posting here should be a “fan” of AARP.


21 posted on 12/23/2017 8:30:17 PM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: adorno; PROCON; SkyPilot; Mariner
The AP cannot be telling the truth (have they ever?) about a farmer or anyone else that doesn’t want lower tax rates. It might not be something to get overly excited about, but, it’s something that any sane person would welcome.

The question that every reasonable person must ask: Will my lowered tax rates offset my lost exemptions and deductions?

With Christmas one day away I don't have the time to work up some spreadsheets but they will be forthcoming.

22 posted on 12/23/2017 8:30:23 PM PST by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: vladimir998

Utter crap....no doubt made up names and reactions


23 posted on 12/23/2017 8:31:43 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

As always, FAKE or not real news. Done on purpose to dishearten. Even if true, so what, everyone can have their opinion.

The media would take the birth of Christ and say the baby was taking up space in the feed trough, so the animals couldn’t eat.

It doesn’t look like they are going to quit so they can continue to be mocked I guess.


24 posted on 12/23/2017 8:34:09 PM PST by taterjay
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To: Eddie01; vladimir998

“Shrugs?”

Ignore it.

It’s the AP... doing its propaganda bit.


25 posted on 12/23/2017 8:57:29 PM PST by aquila48
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To: vladimir998
Presented as a Public Service
Certain FReepers may need this


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26 posted on 12/23/2017 8:57:58 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: vladimir998
Then there is 88-year-old Marilyn Vanderlinden, a Trump voter who sounded appalled by the tax plan.

"This just means the rich are getting richer," said Vanderlinden, a retired nurse, who lives in the small town of Centerville on the Missouri border.

In her county, Trump won 65 percent of the vote, which included the backing of her and her son and grandson, who raise cattle. Vanderlinden said she doubts the benefits of the tax plan will reach Centerville, whose median income is only about half the state's average.

"I voted for Trump, but I wish I could take it back," she said. "He doesn't listen."

In this article, she is the only person supposedly expressing a negative comment and it would seem that at 88 she doesn't work or pay taxes.

27 posted on 12/23/2017 9:33:41 PM PST by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: DoughtyOne
They can’t grasp that over 100 million people are going to be very happy under this new tax code.

Oh, they grasp it, alright. The Ass Press has to talk down the tax cut because Chuck and Nancy blew it with their No vote.

That strategic political blunder may well have doomed the Dems to minority status for the next decade.

28 posted on 12/23/2017 10:07:00 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

I agree.


29 posted on 12/23/2017 11:10:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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To: Brandonmark
"I voted for Trump, but I wish I could take it back," she said. "He doesn't listen."
Here we are over one year after the election and they FINALLY came up with ONE person with "Trump remorse"? Compared to how much 0bama remorse at this point in his presidency?
30 posted on 12/23/2017 11:12:48 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: lightman
Here is an interactive site, where you can select your state, and it will give you some detailed information regarding what percentage of taxpayers in a state (and in what tax bracket) will now be paying more in taxes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/19/heres-how-the-final-gop-tax-bill-would-hit-your-wallet.html

Related article:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/how-the-tax-bill-will-affect-the-middle-class.html

31 posted on 12/24/2017 3:15:13 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: vladimir998; All
And then there is this:

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32 posted on 12/24/2017 3:18:47 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: lightman

AARP has been run for the democrats-Obola-Hillary for many years by a racist extreme socialist. Including their payments from the government to AARP for hundreds of millions.


33 posted on 12/24/2017 3:28:13 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: vladimir998
Oh, piff.

Farmers are seldom effusive about anything.

34 posted on 12/24/2017 3:36:32 AM PST by gogeo (Leftists are a parasite that destroys the host.)
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To: gogeo

this article has been picked up by Japan Times and Raw Story, and no doubt some others. written by HOMAS BEAUMONT and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press.

not sure the woman described as “a retired nurse”, aged 88, fits the woman below, if this is the same Marilyn!

City of Centerville Iowa: Airport Commission
(scroll down) Airport Commission: Marilyn Vanderlinden
http://www.centerville-ia.org/centerville/government/airport-commission

2 Jul 2017: Daily Iowegian: Fitzwater purchase agreement might be amended
By Kyle Ocker
A public hearing as the city decides whether to vacate an alleyway to a resident will be held. Marilyn Vanderlinden has requested the city turn over ownership for an alleyway between 11th Street and South Main Street. Said alleyway ends at the rear portion of a residence owned by Vanderlinden.
The council will have a public hearing to approve vacating the alley. If approved, the process to sale would start and they would likely have a public hearing on July 17 to begin the sale...
http://www.dailyiowegian.com/news/local_news/fitzwater-purchase-agreement-might-be-amended/article_0d9abc72-5f77-11e7-ae72-47a959135824.html

I can’t read anything in the MSM without wondering these days.


35 posted on 12/24/2017 4:17:54 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: vladimir998

In all honesty FReepers, most people out there are sick of, and used to being screwed by government. So yeah, a shrug, indifference, and cautious optimism. Once the proof is in the pudding, minds will change. But it’s why people don’t vote in such large numbers. The government for too long has screwed people over.


36 posted on 12/24/2017 4:27:29 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: vladimir998

The only ones “shrugging” are the ones who don’t realize that getting anything through was a huge win for Trump - all the GOPe/RINO efforts to derail it makes it an amazing feat even if we didn’t get everything we could have wished for - Trump has shown us again how tirelessly he works for the People.....


37 posted on 12/24/2017 4:42:56 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: vladimir998

Yeah the now almost 500,000 people who got bonuses specifically because of the tax cut bill must be furious that they have been forced to make decisions about how to spend the money.

The left is slipping into babbling insanity by the hour.


38 posted on 12/24/2017 4:55:59 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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Yeah the now almost 500,000 people who got bonuses specifically because of the tax cut bill must be furious that they have been forced to make decisions about how to spend the money.

The left is slipping into babbling insanity by the hour.


39 posted on 12/24/2017 4:56:00 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: vpintheak

That and the Republicans screwed themselves by passing a convoluted form of ‘tax cuts’. If it’s not easy to understand the people won’t get behind it. They’re not very good at branding unlike the Dems. Remember...save $2500. Keep your plan. Keep your doctor. It may have been a lie but repeated often enough the dumb schmucks believed it.


40 posted on 12/24/2017 7:00:48 AM PST by sheana
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