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Dartagnan at the Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/18/1757927/-The-Republican-Tax-Cut-Scam-Is-Crashing-And-Burning-With-American-Voters
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Americans have now been collecting post-tax-cut paychecks for more than two months and they still dont like Donald Trumps signature legislative achievement. In fact, as Republicans fan out across the country Tuesday for Tax Day rallies celebrating their law, the vast majority of voters still refuse to accept that their taxes have even gone down.
As reported by Eric Levitz for New York Magazine, the tax giveaway to the rich passed by House and Senate Republicans last year was the least popular tax cut" in history. Its even less popular, on balance, than the tax hikes under George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
It wasnt supposed to turn out this way. In the feverish minds of Republican Congressmen, Americans were supposed to salivate like Pavlovian dogs and roll over to bask in the enormous tax cuts theyd been promised. They were also supposed to magically forget all the harrowing warnings about exploding the deficit that Republicans used over and over to justify their attempts to cut programs like Social Security and Medicare.
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The most recent poll on the legislation is particularly grim: This month, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal found that the tax cuts have grown more unpopular since taking effect, with just 27 percent of Americans calling the legislation a good idea, and 36 percent deeming it a bad one. Whats more, just 39 percent of the public expects the tax cuts to have a positive impact by strengthening the economy and growing jobs while 53 percent foresee a negative impact from higher deficits and disproportionate benefits for the wealthy and big corporations.
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NanceGreggs
(27,825 posts)I can't hear you over the din of kitchens being remodeled, new cars being driven, and all the air traffic as families head off to dream vacations!
applegrove
(119,539 posts)price of housing for regular families.
underpants
(183,593 posts)Americans typically will buy anything that's being sold especially the gullible right wingers. Yes our take home went up but given The largess of the tax cut it looks like peanuts.
I really thought they'd be able to sell this but I have t heard a soul talk about it in person and even the Facebook crowd doesn't mention it.
Qutzupalotl
(14,427 posts)won't kick in until the 2018 return.
airplaneman
(1,250 posts)2018 my taxes are about the same
2019 my taxes go up about 10%
2026 my taxes go up about 50%
and I wouldn't mind if the money was going to be used for infrastructure and improve general safety nest and healthcare for the majority of our citizens. But all for tax cuts for the rich.
This is down right sick. And everything else is going to go up in cost.
-Airplane