It's Republican Senators and Congress, Republican governors and state legislators who refuse to raise taxes on the 1% or legislate to force Corps to pay not just federal but state and local taxes. It is the Republican Tax Agenda that for decades has relentlessly driven to privatize by minimizing, in fact eliminating, taxes on the wealthy and global corporation while leaving taxpayers to make up the deficit..
This is what the beloved Republican's "Austerity" really means. Billionaires like Trump and mega corps like Apple pay no taxes, have golden toilets and hoard trillions of untaxed profits (from American consummers) abroad, while Republicans managed cruelty (i.e. Austerity) forces taxpayers to live in an economy that cuts services, degrades their quality of life.
Look at Trump, look at the disaster that is Kansas, look at Flint, look at Wisconsin, look at Republican run states throughout the Country and look at the Republican Congress.You will see tax policy that not only supports tax cheats like Trump but celebrates
him. Trump IS Republican fiscal policy from the state to the national level. Who's defending Trump today? Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Guiliani; no Republicans in government, in fact, are criticizing Trump's tax evasion!
This election is not just about getting Hillary into the White House. It's about getting Republicans out of power in the Congress and in State and Local governments so that their Koch Brothers controlled tax agenda can be overthrown.. Why are Democrats not making this point in every interview with a sledge hammer? Especially when they are specifically given this rare and precious airtime to discuss Trump i.e. Republican tax loopholes and cheating?
Why not bring up that not just Trump but EVERY Republican in Congress wants to eliminate the Estate Tax? In fact the Repubs just tried(again!) to put the elimination of the Estate Tax as a necessary rider to pass the budget & keep the government functioning. It's not enough that now the 1% get to leave 10 million tax free to their Melanias, Ivankas, Donalds and Erics. Bring up that there is no Republican in Congress who thinks Wall Street should have to pay a sales (transaction) tax. Even though women have to pay sales tax on essential products and elderly probably even have to pay tax on their diapers! Why has no Republican in any office in the Country ever talked about scrapping the cap on Social Security to make millionaires pay their fair share into our national safety net, especially when they babble on about the glories of "flat taxes."
This election should be a pocket book revolution. Every Dem interviewed this week on Trump's taxes MUST seize this golden opportunity to define Trump as the perfect example of decades of Republican Tax Policy in action,a tax policy that punishes the 99% by not taxing the 1% responsibly, a tax policy that can only be changed by getting Republican out of power in Congress and across the Country.
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