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Yavin4

(35,421 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 12:27 PM Feb 2021

Remember, Susan Collins supported Trump's Tax Cut on corporations

Also remember that at that time, corporations were sitting on record profits. They didn't need another round of tax cuts.

The shameless cynicism of Republicans knows no bounds.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine complained during a call with Biden administration officials on Sunday that the $1,400 direct relief payments the president has proposed are not sufficiently "targeted," an argument that critics dismissed as absurd and cynical given her 2017 vote for tax cuts that disproportionately benefited wealthy Americans.


But according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, less than one percent of the benefits of the CASH Act would have gone to the top five percent of the income distribution. By contrast, 52% of the benefits of the $1.5 trillion tax bill that Collins happily voted for in 2017 went to the top five percent in 2020.


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/25/susan-collins-supporter-15-trillion-tax-cuts-rich-claims-1400-survival-checks-not
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Remember, Susan Collins supported Trump's Tax Cut on corporations (Original Post) Yavin4 Feb 2021 OP
Susan Collins is a snake that wears her blatant dishonesty Greybnk48 Feb 2021 #1

Greybnk48

(10,162 posts)
1. Susan Collins is a snake that wears her blatant dishonesty
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 12:32 PM
Feb 2021

like a badge of honor. The lies and phony rhetoric just glide off her tongue.

She's not a moderate, she's a proven liar, and we need to treat her that way. Fortunately, I'm dead certain Joe Biden has her number. She's also creepy.

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