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bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:21 PM Dec 2017

Pat Toomey to get direct benefit from the corrupt GOP tax package

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, inserted language into the final tax bill that would enrich three different constituencies: fossil fuel firms, Republicans’ major campaign donors and a handful of Cornyn’s GOP congressional colleagues.
Cornyn’s amendment ensures Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs), which are publicly traded partnerships that aren’t required to pay corporate income taxes, get the “pass-through” tax break in the final tax bill. Congressional Republicans have settled on a 20 percent deduction for some types of pass-through entities in their final tax bill as a way to give those businesses, which don't pay corporate taxes, some of the tax relief the bill gives to corporations, which do pay the corporate levy.
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/cornyn-pipeline-amendment-enriches-gop-lawmakers-language-inserted-cornyns-former

See the below graph for his direct investment.

Toomey, Pat GOP Senate PA $52,003 $130,000
http://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/DduPe/9/

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Pat Toomey to get direct benefit from the corrupt GOP tax package (Original Post) bronxiteforever Dec 2017 OP
Great reporting here! FakeNoose Dec 2017 #1
I called his office this morning BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #2
The only Pennsylvanian that Hillsdale Pat cares about is himself. blue neen Dec 2017 #3

FakeNoose

(32,579 posts)
1. Great reporting here!
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:28 PM
Dec 2017

We need to use this info when we recall Toomey and cancel the rest of his term in the Senate.
Maybe it's not too late to give his seat to Katie McGinty.

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