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ibegurpard

(16,685 posts) Fri May 22, 2020, 02:08 AM May 2020

Why, in this current era of "unaffordable" government expenditure...

... is the issue of the 1.5 trillion dollar corporate tax cuts of 2017 pushed through by republicans that went mostly to stock buybacks not being screamed about relentlessly?

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Why, in this current era of "unaffordable" government expenditure... (Original Post) ibegurpard May 2020 OP

Ain't "austerity" grand? PSPS May 2020 #1

That kind of welfare is okay with Republicans. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #2

PSPS

(13,579 posts)

1. Ain't "austerity" grand?

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Fri May 22, 2020, 02:51 AM

May 2020

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)

2. That kind of welfare is okay with Republicans.

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Fri May 22, 2020, 02:59 AM

May 2020

As right-winger Bill Cunningham keeps saying on WLW radio, "When was the last time a poor person gave you a job?! That's right! Never!"

Isn't it great that we don't have kings and lords anymore, who GAVE the serfs an opportunity to work and survive?

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