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It must be awful to be a Democrat right now. Every single thing is an emergency, or the end of all that we know, or the worst thing EVAR. After all, net neutrality being repealed was supposed to make life unliveable. Well, old crisis has been forgotten in favor of new crisis – tax cuts!
It’s official – the reconciled tax bill has passed both House and Senate.
The Latest: Republicans in Congress deliver an epic overhaul of U.S. tax laws to President Donald Trump. https://t.co/9n8iQ6DL7v
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 20, 2017
This is the single biggest legislative victory for the Trump Administration up until now.
We are delivering HISTORIC TAX RELIEF for the American people!#TaxCutsandJobsAct pic.twitter.com/lLgATrCh5o
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2017
Cue the Democrats hitting the panic button once more, and they apparently all got the same code word to use.
Today's secret Democrat talking point word is…"heist!" pic.twitter.com/YxM60fg8e7
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) December 20, 2017
Seriously. Taxpayers getting to keep their own money instead of having the government take it by force is a “heist” if you’re a Democrat.
The bill that the Republicans jammed through the Senate tonight isn’t tax reform. It’s a heist. Let's call this out for what it is: Government for sale. #GOPTaxScam
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 20, 2017
Unbelievable. GOP just pulled off the biggest bank heist in US history & they’re delivering the loot – >$1 trillion out of our national treasury – to the wealthiest Americans & big corporations. We must fight back harder than ever for our “We the People” vision of our democracy. pic.twitter.com/fAXi0fC2yh
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) December 20, 2017
This. Is. A. Heist.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) December 20, 2017
This is not a middle-class tax cut. The majority of the benefits will go to the top 1%.
This is not a jobs bill. Corporations will use tax cuts to reward shareholders and invest in automation.
This is a historic heist that we will regret for years to come. #GOPTaxScam
— Mark Takano (@RepMarkTakano) December 19, 2017
Good ol’ Bernie broke open the thesaurus and tried “looting.”
What we are seeing today, in an unprecedented way, is the looting of the federal Treasury. https://t.co/G0XjvfNwC9 pic.twitter.com/LGvf1VhH0s
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 19, 2017
I had no idea that keeping my own money was stealing from the government!!!! (Yes, that was sarcasm.)
The boy has cried wolf far too many times, and with companies like AT&T and Boeing announcing bonuses for employees due to the passage of the tax bill, there are some very hilarious juxtapositions happening.
NEW — AT&T announces it will "pay a special $1,000 bonus to more than 200,000 AT&T U.S. employees" because of the tax reform passage and will also increase US capital spending by $1 billion
— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) December 20, 2017
As this news broke, Chuck Schumer was speaking to the press and taking a shot at AT&T for paying only 8% effective corporate tax rate. https://t.co/07StPn236X
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 20, 2017
these two things happened almost simultaneously https://t.co/KLQeBDfdu1 pic.twitter.com/QqGEO1QBwi
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) December 20, 2017
Ooops.
Only true hacks can claim bonuses are a bad thing.
boeing revenue last year was $94.5 billion. their plan to spend $300 million is 0.31% of that, and we don't yet know how many BILLIONS their tax bill will be cut under the gop plan. #BoeingTableScraps
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 20, 2017
Giant company uses breaking news event to buy their way out of a high-profile regulatory challenge and conservative journalists trip over themselves to pretend as if the free market is working its magic for the little guy. https://t.co/JfGHz940Zj
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) December 20, 2017
You keep doing you, Democrats. Most every other taxpayer is going to be singing quite a different tune next April.
John in Indy says: SARC – To Democrats, of course the tax bill is a heist – it might allow some of those working people to keep more of their wages FROM THEM – pitiful, but typical.
Note also that this tax bill is primarily about income taxes, personal and on businesses. Income taxes are one of the forces which serve to prevent even those very high earners from ever becoming truly wealthy, and challenging the position and authority of the self-defined “elites”. The Democrats NEVER do anything which would cost the top 1% of wealth HOLDERS any money.
For the rest of us middle income people, the only way we can live well is to avoid the advertised “consumer” lifestyle, by rejecting the envy promoted by the media.
I have had to learn to live a live which values quality over quantity, good people, our families, and time well spent.
Overcoming envy, and realizing that my choices for quality of life over striving to impress with consumption and debt people whose opinions I no longer value have had social costs, (I no longer play their games) but overall, I think that these have been the better choices.
John in Indy
Rdm says: Um … people’s 401k plans are shareholders. And investing in technology that lets them produce more efficiently lets them produce cheaper, which lets people who rely too n what they produce either A: could noumena it cheaper and keep me re money or B: produce whatever THEY produce themselves wth that product cheaper. Money going to shareholders and being invested doesn’t go up in smoke,
MikeE says: Just hilarious, since the Federal Treasury is stuffed full of IOUs.
Bandit says: Help me again? You’re stealing your own money by not having it taxed? That doesn’t seem right. You’re stealing from the people who don’t have your money anymore. I don’t get it.
GWB says: I had no idea that keeping my own money was stealing from the government!!!!
For these folks that’s very true. What you have is not yours, in their minds.
Now, if you want real tax reform, eliminate withholding, and change the tax due date to the Thursday before the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. IOW, 5 days before we vote in national elections.
(And the only real solution is to 1. stop spending on unconstitutional items and 2. repeal the 16th Amendment.)
[…] the US, Democrat Party politicians are angry that a lot of money that they naturally felt belonged to them, will be returned to the people who […]
CaptDMO says: Well, its like this…
Cash returned to “We the people…” Heist.
Cash returned to Iran….” New Coke.
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