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Moral Compass

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17. Doesn't this violate budget reconciliation rules?
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 11:47 PM
Oct 2017

My understanding was that to get this tax fraud bill through with 50 votes (Pence is the tie breaker) the bill has to only cost the federal treasury $1.5 trillion over 10 years.

Since it is clear that in this form it violates that doesn't it become susceptible to filibuster?

(An additional general comment. What these traitors are doing is obscene.

This bill will almost certainly not ignite growth. Most likely it will cause economic contraction. That windfall that corporations get? They haven't spent any of the other additional revenues due to previous tax cuts by raising wages or adding employees. What makes anyone think they will this time?

Instead they will continue to move production facilities to lower wage regions and will continue to invest heavily in robotics and AI.

These thieves don't even believe their own bullshit. This will accomplish two ends. One, they get a tax cut and the Republicans always love those. Two, they'll be able to go after Medicare/Social Security/Medicaid even more than now. Get a Democrat in office and they can go back to howling about the deficit.)

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