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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 02:48 PM Feb 2021

GOP blasts 'out-of-control' spending while demanding permanent tax cuts for the rich



By Josh Israel -February 5, 2021 11:33 AM

Republicans in the Senate want to permanently extend parts of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017.

Senate Republicans unanimously voted on Friday to make Donald Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. Such a move would significantly increase the national debt, which the GOP has repeatedly claimed is a top concern.

On Thursday night and Friday morning, the Senate voted on dozens of proposed changes to the budget resolution that will allow an up-or-down vote on President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill. One amendment, offered by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), aimed to put the Senate on record in support of permanently extending parts of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017.

That law, which slashed tax rates for big corporations and the very wealthy but raised taxes for 10 million American families, already increased the national debt by an estimated $1 trillion to $2 trillion over 10 years. Making the temporary provisions — mostly relating to individual rates — of the law permanent would further increase its cost.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/senate-gop-tax-cuts-wealthy-corporations-national-debt-donald-trump/

Hey Rand, can I call you Paul, where were you when the 2017 tax cut went into law, well by golly you voted for it in fact it was for around 1.5 trillion with "fucking T", in fact you were in the senate when it passed, if my memory serves me correctly, your gang of hypocrites cut the tax down on certain entities and corporations and the wealthy, and you also had a clause in the tax cut, that we the little people and "our tax cut" would gradually go back up and that when it hit 2024 or 2025 the tax cut that your gang gave us would be wiped out, but the wealthy and the corporations would still have there tax cut and guess what, so that in essence we the "little people" would continue subsidizing that cut but we don't have one........FU, so in closing with my rant if you ever come to this site let's bring back this favorite of your hypocrisy of BS...............

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/rand-paul-911-first-responders-bill
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GOP blasts 'out-of-control' spending while demanding permanent tax cuts for the rich (Original Post) turbinetree Feb 2021 OP
Projection as usual. onecaliberal Feb 2021 #1
That's all he does, its must be a written test to be a libertarian, say one thing do another turbinetree Feb 2021 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author onecaliberal Feb 2021 #3
Ever since Reagan taxes on the rich have been PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2021 #4
Make the COVID bill revenue-neutral. Cancel Turd's billionaire tax cut. lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #5
Same shit,just another new Wellstone ruled Feb 2021 #6

Response to turbinetree (Original post)

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
4. Ever since Reagan taxes on the rich have been
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 03:09 PM
Feb 2021

cut and cut again and cut more. It's long past time to reinstate those taxes.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
5. Make the COVID bill revenue-neutral. Cancel Turd's billionaire tax cut.
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 03:11 PM
Feb 2021

And restore the rest of us to lower taxes.

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