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Today Consumer Finance Protection Bureau chief Richard Cordray announced that he will resign at the end of the month and most Ohio Democratic leaders say he will run for governor next year. Also, Sen. Ron Johnson (D-WI) said he will vote against the GOP tax giveaway and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) warned that repealing the Obamacare individual mandate would cancel any tax cut benefit for many working families, while Vox’s Dylan Scott and Sarah Kliff report that adding the individual mandate repeal basically makes working family health care cuts pay for rich people’s and business’ tax cuts. And 26-year-old Allison Ikley-Freeman won a special election for an Oklahoma state senate seat from Tulsa County, making that the fourth Oklahoma state legislative seat flipped to Democrats this year. Will the GOP’s tax bill help build a Democratic wave for 2018?
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The GOP tax bill will go now where. It is brought forward on o closed order that means no amendments to its foolish provisions.
I think they’re continued emphasis — and the media is finally catching on — on tax relief for billionaires, while their “cuts” aren’t and raise taxes on middle and lower class workers is going to really be tough to explain come election time. Add in that they’re once again going to the well with cuts to a popular program to pay for it, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them having more trouble getting reelected.
I’m not sure this craptacular plan will ever pass. But if it does … yes, it should help build a blue wave … because it’s nothing less than a MASSIVE transfer of wealth from working families up to the already-wealthy….
Extra points for craptacular.
I called my Rep, Tom Emmer today to tell him to vote no. Nice woman on the phone. Told her I thought deficit and debt reduction were important (gotcha to a man that ran as Tea Party, fiscally conservative) and as a 71 year old on Medicare hitting that program with a $25 billion dollar cut to give money to the richest 1% and corporations was really mean. Lots of the largest corporations already have a surplus of cash offshore. They aren’t giving raises now or investing in growing their businesses. There’s too much capital and not enough investment opportunities now.
I had to give her my address. They only take calls from constituents. I said that unfortunately he was my representative but I would prefer a Democrat. She laughed and said I wasn’t the first one to say that but at least I was polite.
Whether it passes or not, the house Republicans are already on record with their votes.