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Montana Sen. Jon Tester's displeasure with tax bill goes viral
Fox 30 ^ | 12/2/17 | Bob D Angelo

Posted on 12/04/2017 9:41:13 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

Sen. Jon Tester’s tweet about the passage of the Tax Reconciliation Act has gone viral, with more than 42,000 retweets, The Great Falls Tribune reported Saturday....

“I was just handed a 479-page tax bill a few hours before the vote,” Tester said in the video. “One page literally has hand-scribbled policy changes on it that can’t be read.”

“I want you to take a look at this, folks. This is your government at work,” Tester said as he brought the page with the side notations....

(Excerpt) Read more at amp.actionnewsjax.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: 115th; internet; jobs; jontester; tds; trumptaxcuts
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To: SoFloFreeper
Trump wanted to meet with Dems...they refused.

When?

21 posted on 12/04/2017 9:56:22 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: bboop

“Ask Nancy - you have to sign the bill before you read it. Did you Dems think the ‘rules’ only applied to others??”

If democrats don’t like it that means it doesnt screw the public bad enough.


22 posted on 12/04/2017 9:56:28 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If it was rush though, I’ll go out on a limb and agree with he guy.

I hated it when the democrats did it, I hate it just as much now.

Despicable process by despicable Republican leadership.


23 posted on 12/04/2017 9:57:05 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: DoodleDawg

Last week.


24 posted on 12/04/2017 9:57:38 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
And eliminate the inhumane withholding tax!

Face it, withholding makes sharecroppers of us all.

25 posted on 12/04/2017 9:58:21 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (High taxes + Government = Disorganized Crime)
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To: Bonemaker
Last week.

That was concerning funding the government and preventing the shutdown and not the tax plan.

26 posted on 12/04/2017 10:01:24 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: vette6387

“The good news is he’s up for re-election next year. So where are the Republicans? Who will be their candidate? Will Bannon get someone who can help to get rid of the McConnellites?”

In the meantime we’re paying this prick 174 large to be a jerk.


27 posted on 12/04/2017 10:02:15 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Am I mad about the tax bill being nowhere near having a reasonable time for review? Yes.

And anyone who voted for the two-kilopage monstrosity under Obama having similarly no time to read that can cork their pieholes about this one.


28 posted on 12/04/2017 10:03:40 AM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Jonny7797
--I agree---I had hoped that with Repub control of both houses of Congress, some sanity would return to the lawmaking process--notably , singe purpose , relatively simple stand-alone bills would be put forth (as IRRC. Rush Limbaugh among others suggested)-

-NOPE--didn't happen--

29 posted on 12/04/2017 10:03:46 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: DoodleDawg

last week


30 posted on 12/04/2017 10:08:58 AM PST by mowowie
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To: mowowie
last week

That was for continuing funding for the government and not the tax plan.

31 posted on 12/04/2017 10:15:35 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: SoFloFreeper

But, but...”We have to PASS the Bill before we can know what’s in it!” worked just FINE for 0bamacare, Eh, Bucko?

*SPIT*


32 posted on 12/04/2017 10:17:27 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If the enemy is against it, I’m for it.


33 posted on 12/04/2017 10:27:43 AM PST by FrdmLvr (“What Happened you ask?...Ma’am, you got your ass kicked.” Bannon)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Earlier today.... Elizabeth Warren Attacks ‘GOP Tax Scam Bill’ — Then Admits She Hasn’t Even Read It
34 posted on 12/04/2017 10:28:36 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: SoFloFreeper
Gosh.

Sounds just like what happened when the democRATS alone passed ObamaCare in the dead of the night.

We were told by Nancy peLousy that we would needed to pass the bill so we could find out what was in it.

How is this any different, you whiney, liberal congress critter?

BTW, how did this liberal ever get elected in Montana of all places? Montana's not known for cottoning to lily-livered, liberal crybabies.

35 posted on 12/04/2017 10:33:09 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Lent
Should have taken that speed reading course offered in college. Too bad.

Remember when the House hired a professional speed reader to read a bill on the floor?

36 posted on 12/04/2017 10:59:22 AM PST by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Must be one of them “Broke Back Mountain” Montanans...


37 posted on 12/04/2017 10:59:43 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: DoodleDawg
When?

Last week, he had the meeting anyway with empty chairs reminiscent of Dirty Harry's convention speech.

38 posted on 12/04/2017 11:02:24 AM PST by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: itsahoot
Last week, he had the meeting anyway with empty chairs reminiscent of Dirty Harry's convention speech.

And as I pointed out to the previous two responders, that meeting was for funding the government to prevent a shutdown and not on the tax plan.

39 posted on 12/04/2017 11:14:39 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: SoFloFreeper

He refused the President’s invitation to discuss the bill in the White House and there was the required hours of robust debate.


40 posted on 12/04/2017 11:15:17 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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