Not enough winning for the ruthless competitors at the top of the heap. That also means not enough losing for everybody else.
The opposite. Borrow during downturns and pay back when everything is going well. Even out the ups and downs to get steady growth.
If I counted the votes right as she called them off this thing just got gunned down.
Meh still amendments but it isn't going well for them. They are now arguing over drilling rights.Was it the actual bill or an amendment?
Nah, you have an excellent, spot on grasp of the situation.Maybe I'm not a smart guy. I have trouble comprehending the nuance of the actions of my betters. There's a lot in life that gets past me. So maybe I'm not understanding what's going on but Congress is meeting:
In the dead of night...
To consider legislation...
With handwritten changes...
That nobody has read...
That is deeply unpopular...
To raise taxes on the working class...
To pair with trillions of dollars of deficit spending...
To fund permanent tax cuts for corporations...
(Which the corporations have admitted will not be trickled down to employees...)
To spur an economy...
At very low unemployment levels...
Which is going to be throttled by its central bank...
Because it is already performing well...
And this is being done by people who have complained about the process employed to extend health insurance to 30,000,000 people.
She'd have signed the one written on a sheet of used toilet paper. Its passing was straight down party lines proving that Republicans will do as they please even though they're supposed to be representing their constituents. I suppose that they've redefined what that means now too.It passed. I'm sure Hillary would have signed it anyway.
She'd have signed the one written on a sheet of used toilet paper. Its passing was straight down party lines proving that Republicans will do as they please even though their supposed to be representing their constituents. I suppose that they've redefined what that means now too.
Really looking forward to voting against any Republican I find on my ballot next year.
Well, the Iron Stache dude running against Paul Ryan now has 11 months to build up a hell of a talking points list to run on. Hope he has some good volunteers under him that can translate the insanity of this bill into usable ammunition that people actually absorb.
You mean like how Mitt paid 14% in federal taxes? Or just little guy loopholes?
This tax plan is all about pampering the already astoundingly wealthy. They win, big time. There will be some winners & losers among the plebes, of course. Keeps 'em fighting among themselves.
They should rename this bill the unprecedented transfer of wealth to the top 1% by lapdog republicans act.They do represent their constituent, the fat cats. The rest are just necesary for the election.
Lol just read a piece by Larry Kudlow over at CNBC that makes me suspect he's on an enormous amount of coke again. He thinks the JCT/CBO scores are missing like a couple trillion in new revenue from their projections and that GDP growth could be 5% (or more) because of the investment waive this will generate. One of the ways he arrives at that revenue figure is by counting the stock market run up as cap gains tax in the bag.
Supply siders gonna supply side until they die.
Supply siders gonna supply side until they die.
Yeah. The Laffer curve has now turned into a one side Laugher curve. As tax rates go to zero, revenue goes to infinity in these people's minds.
When it doesn't, whip out the ole entitlement reform.