• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    8 months ago

    thats been their playbook for what, 50 years? has nothing to do with trump other than his rubber-stamping as all conservatives do. zero thought required, party line only.

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    8 months ago

    We need to stop giving Trump so much credit for shit the GOP is doing with him as a figurehead. Republicans have been giving tax breaks to the wealthy at the expense of the general population for decades, and it isn’t like Trump wrote the legislation.

    Yeah, he promoted it, but giving him all the credit makes it seem like it was his idea. No, it was just more of the same from the regressive party.

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      8 months ago

      True, but we always tie tax cuts to the President who signed them, and congress has the option, next year, to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent. If you read TFA, much of their analysis concerns the cumulative effect of Bush and Trump tax cuts, and it’s really just their call to action that specifically addresses the Trump cuts.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, there are a ton of other Republican fascists that nee to be paid attention to and voted against in addition to Trump.

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    8 months ago

    The US has surpassed pre-Revolution France in terms of wealth inequality, and still the only major legislative achievement of the Trump administration was to slash their tax bill yet again.

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    8 months ago

    Unless I’m mistaken, that’s what everyone was saying as it was being passed. Isn’t that why Paul Ryan ran away right faster passing it?