I don’t think Thune is right about this. Trump has some opportunities to pull the carpet out from under some of these leftists. If they can do the math and figure out a way where nobody - income earners, retirees, SS recipients, everyone - has zero taxes if they make less than $200,000… or even $150,000… and this comes at a price of 1% more for those making over $400,000 for example (I don’t know what numbers they are debating or which numbers work) then they steal all the thunder from the left. 1). They show they are protecting the working class people and 2) the rich WILL pay more. The left can’t argue anything with success imo. It won’t be a GWB read my lipsmoment at all. It will be seen as a great compromise that protects the vast majority of people.
bush cost perot the election.
John, my little grandchildren can solve this. All you need is courage to do the correct thing.
Sanity for a change
as always, the elite gopers protect their own country clubbers.
(and thank God bush the globalist lost.)
Then quit complaining grow a pair and get to work!
one day it is eliminating all taxes for tariffs and the next it is raise taxes.
which is it?
My thoughts exactly.
Trump has run to the left of the moderates in the Senate. Not good.
You can do a gimmicky thing like raise the top marginal rate, but increase the cap on the second marginal rate to offset it. Raise the cap on the payroll tax and offset that by further raising the caps on the second and third marginal rates. That would achieve no net tax increase and also throw the “cutting SS and Medicare” narrative back in the Dems faces.
Yeah, its a gimmick...but given we aren’t going to get a total tax system overhaul in this budget, let’s go for it. It would be a gimmick that would destroy the Dem narrative and still achieve the other goals to allow for reconciliation.
I SO loathe republicans.
How about getting to work in downsizing our government.
If the new Big Beautiful Bill doesn’t pass by the end of this year, the tax cuts from 2017 will expire and everyone’s taxes will increase.
Better get to work herding your cats, Johnny Boy.
EC
Bush’s promise was “No new taxes”. He kept it, but didn’t prevent the OLD taxes from being increased.