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flotsam

(3,268 posts)
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 12:30 PM Dec 2017

Democratic leadership should tie tax reform to Trump

Do our colleagues truly want to pass this President's corrupt bill on the very day the first of his insiders has offered to testify to the criminality of his administration? Will you not even slow to consider it fully in the light of charges of treason???

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Democratic leadership should tie tax reform to Trump (Original Post) flotsam Dec 2017 OP
I know. cilla4progress Dec 2017 #1
Dems have no say in the passing of the tax scam. marybourg Dec 2017 #2
That's exactly why we need this message out. flotsam Dec 2017 #5
They should ... though I'm not sure the KPN Dec 2017 #3
Reform? You mean tax cuts for billionaires dalton99a Dec 2017 #4
They absolutely should standingtall Dec 2017 #6
Yes flotsam Dec 2017 #7

marybourg

(12,586 posts)
2. Dems have no say in the passing of the tax scam.
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 12:33 PM
Dec 2017

Pubs have engineered it so that they need no Dem votes. This has been explained over and over on mass media.

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
5. That's exactly why we need this message out.
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 12:37 PM
Dec 2017

Surely there are several sane republicans who truly would cringe at the optics of a straight party line vote on the very day the first White House insider pleads guilty. Gotta tie the bill to Trump and hope that's poison enough.

KPN

(15,636 posts)
3. They should ... though I'm not sure the
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 12:34 PM
Dec 2017

simpletons who support 45 or GOP Congressionals really care. They swallowed the bait decades ago when trickle-up first started.

standingtall

(2,785 posts)
6. They absolutely should
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 12:38 PM
Dec 2017

in fact they should all legislation the republicans pass as well as judges appointed to Trump, and it should all be presented to voters as illegitimate as Trump.

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