Tax Cuts
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Will or won't the bill pass? I'm thinking probably not.
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Senate panel under pressure to pass tax plan; 2 GOP members mull 'no' vote
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has voiced concern that the bill doesn't have provisions to help small businesses -- and Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said the bill would lead to federal deficit increases.
Republicans hold a 12-11 majority on the Senate Committee on the Budget. While neither has pledged to vote against the bill, "no" votes from Johnson and Corker would keep the bill from leaving committee. All Democrats on the committee are expected to vote against the bill.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/11/28/Senate-panel-under-pressure
-to-pass-tax-plan-2-GOP-members-mull-no-vote/3641511871902/
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The Red-State Revolt Spreads to Oklahoma
Republican voters soured on tax cuts in Kansas. Now a similar budget crisis is playing out in Oklahoma, and in a string of special-election wins, Democrats are taking advantage.
In a state that gave 65 percent of its vote to Donald Trump a year ago, the GOP controls pretty much everything: the governorship and every statewide office, both U.S. Senate seats, all five House seats. The state legislature is almost laughably one-sided; Republicans have super-majorities of more than 70 percent of the seats in each chamber.
But in the last four months, voters have repudiated those Republicans running in Oklahoma at the polls. Democrats have captured four state legislative seats held by the GOP, two in special elections for the House and two for the Senate. The most recent—and perhaps the most surprising—win occurred last week, when a 26-year-old lesbian Democrat named Allison Ikley-Freeman edged out the Republican candidate by 31 votes in a conservative state House district near Tulsa that went heavily for Trump in 2016. Democrats may have a chance to make an even bigger statement in a few months, when a vacancy caused by the likely Senate confirmation of Representative Jim Bridenstine to be NASA administrator could trigger a special congressional election in the district that includes Tulsa.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-red-state-rev
olt-spreads-to-oklahoma/546671/
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Originally posted by G:
Because what we need is more religion in our politics:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/us/politics/johnson-amendment-churc
hes-taxes-politics.html
WASHINGTON — For years, a coalition of well-funded groups on the religious right have waged an uphill battle to repeal a 1954 law that bans churches and other nonprofit groups from engaging in political activity.
Now, those groups are edging toward a once-improbable victory as Republican lawmakers, with the enthusiastic backing of President Trump, prepare to rewrite large swaths of the United States tax code as part of the $1.5 trillion tax package moving through Congress.
Among the changes in the tax bill that passed the House this month is a provision to roll back the 1954 ban, a move that is championed by the religious right, but opposed by thousands of religious and nonprofit leaders, who warn that it could blur the line between charity and politics.
The change could turn churches into a well-funded political force, with donors diverting as much as $1.7 billion each year from traditional political committees to churches and other nonprofit groups that could legally engage in partisan politics for the first time, according to an estimate by the nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation."
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Tell me that's not a nightmare scenario where we turn the clock back 200 years.
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It falls right in line with decision, corporations are people too.
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Quote:
Originally posted by G:
Tell me that's not a nightmare scenario where we turn the clock back 200 years.
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In some colonies, people could be arrested for not showing up in church.
You mean, like that?
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G: "The Handmaid’s Tale?"
I recognize the title; pretty sure I never read it.
I mostly only read for fun.
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Its bizzar to see Mitch McConnell smiling ear to ear after sekseeding to put a noose around hiz nek.
And wile passing around noosez to all the other GoPs, he sez "therez not a single democrat that thot this wuz a good idea."
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.7532020.com
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It is pretty bizarre. Makes you wonder if he knows something you don't know.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It is pretty bizarre. Makes you wonder if he knows something you don't know.
Stress
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“In terms of income as opposed to wealth, almost all of the new income generated in recent years has gone to the top 1 percent. In fact, the latest information that we have shows that in recent years, over 99 percent of all new income generated in the economy has gone to the top 1 percent.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/02/17/bernie-
sanders-claim-that-99-percent-of-new-income-is-going-to-top-1-percent-of-americans/?utm_term=.40015b619fcc
Far to many Republicans practice tribalism. Democrats do to, but with Republicans this means many vote against their own interests. This is why this tax bill is still afloat.
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