Posted on 10/26/2017 8:16:37 AM PDT by davikkm
Republican lawmakers passed a budget today in the US House in a very close vote.
https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/923553579834556417
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Kansas next door cut their taxes six or seven years ago with the usual promise that it will bring jobs and actually raise revenue. The result has been six straight years of revenue not coming close to projections and cuts to roads, schools, public safety, Medicaid, and everything else that could be cut. Last election the conservatives in the legislature lost in a landslide and something like 20 or 25 of the tax cut supporters were primaried or lost in the general.
That's the universe we live in. Your article is talking about the same kind of cuts that Kansas went through. And it will probably result in the same outcome - Republican losses in the legislature and governorships. Is that what you're looking for?
I do understand your comments about Kansas. I really do.
Nonetheless, my statement “Getting rid of the deduction will put pressure on these states to LOWER their taxes is most likely true.
States with high state/local taxes will feel pressure to lower their taxes from their residents. In the end, the residents will get to decide, do they want lower taxes (with cuts to services) or do they want higher taxes (with more services).
The people of Kansas voted out “tax cut supporters”. It is their right. In doing so, they can have higher taxes with more services if they want them. Each state gets to decide.
Probably, as long as the people in the state don't want their roads maintained, their schools funded, their state police and prisons funded, and great grandma's retirement home paid for.
Is it THIS budget?
Paul Ryan tells Conservatives that daca will be part of the omnibus budget deal
Is it THIS budget?
Paul Ryan tells Conservatives that daca will be part of the omnibus budget deal
Took the words out of my mouth...If so,none of them should have voted for it :(
OOPS...link did not post originally.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3598328/posts
NO, it is not “this” budget.
The budget voted on is a non-binding congressional resolution that is not law and doesn’t need to be signed by the president.
Martin Feldstein was on CNBC today and made the same point regarding high tax states (at time 2:30-3:49): https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/11/17/santelli-exchange-feldstein-on-tax-reform.html
In Texas, we are a relatively low tax state and we have Roads, Schools, State Police and Prisons.
Not sure about Great Grandma’s retirement home, though. I’m kind of against government providing homes for people. Medicare may pay for a nursing home if Great Grandma paid into the system during her working years. But this is beyond my knowledge.
And an oil and gas industry that provides a lot in the way of production taxes. Not all states are that fortunate.
Not sure about Great Grandmas retirement home, though. Im kind of against government providing homes for people. Medicare may pay for a nursing home if Great Grandma paid into the system during her working years. But this is beyond my knowledge.
Medicare does not cover nursing home care. Medicaid does.
“The fact that 20 Rs voted against the budget is disappointing.”
Yep, and I don’t care what the 20 Republicans cares were.
5.56mm
We do need to be suspicious of Ryan trying to sneak DACA into the appropriation bills at the end of the year.
There will likely be an omnibus spending bill (packages many of the smaller regular appropriations bills into one larger single bill that could be passed with only one vote in each house).
President Trump must demand funding for the Wall and no DACA at the end of the year.
Immigration is changing this country. I’m discouraged by the whole thing. Democratic politicians want immigration so they can import new Democratic voters. Republican politicians want immigration to appease big corporations. They want immigration so they can pay lower wages.
Big corporations are NOT a friend of rank and file Republican voters.
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