Have you ever been driving safely when you could see for the last few seconds that you were going to get hit by a car going too crazy and too fast? 1…2…3 IMPACT!!!! That is what the entire last 8 years has been like on a daily basis dealing with the insane GQP.
More self-serving and beholden to certain interests than inept. Unlikely any other Dem than Manchin would have been elected in WV, while Sinema, equally corrupt, seems to bask in negative energy.
Where were the Republicans when they passed the 2017 Republican Tax Act? Indeed, they understood by exempting corporate profits from our progressive income tax system, the Federal debt and deficits would skyrocket, along with income and wealth gaps. Since 1980 all empirical evidence indicates there is no relationship between just cutting taxes and economic growth, and that tax cuts should not be considered when the economy is already growing at a decent clip. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office estimates must have required a set of very unrealistic assumptions, although they did conclude the 2017 Tax Act would increase both debt and deficits. As it turned out, Trump had no plan for economic growth, just failed ideology. Trump also had no plan for addressing our critical challenges like climate change and Infrastructure. Corporate tax cuts only increase the bottom-line of corporations. They buy back there stock with profits, which raises their valuations. With high valuations, they raise their prices to justify the higher valuations. This fuels inflation driven by profits.
Even before the Pandemic the economy began to slow in 2019 and Republicans had not paid a single cent towards reducing the debt and deficits, while 75% of economists were predicting a forthcoming recession. In addition to the tax giveaway to the wealthiest Americans and their 90% ownership of America's corporate wealth, the Trump Admin gave away public lands to private interests and turned the EPA into a chemical warfare plan targeting the health of Americans, supposedly to produce even more profits and growth.
Then a very ignorant and incompetent POTUS was faced with addressing a Pandemic. His first instincts were to lie about for three months and despite warnings from everyone, he had made no preparations for this probable challenge, and refused to listen to health experts even after the Pandemic took hold.
Trump lost his ill-conceived and ill-advised trade war with China and also lost a necessary global partner and strategic partner. Any chance Trump could resolve the nuclear threat of North Korea went down the toilet when he started his trade war and conducted it like a bully and a racist.
Now we are faced with the outcome of gerrymandered districts, voter suppression, and dark money that produced an army of R miscreants whose only immediate objectives are: 1) Maintaining the current taxation system that produces insufficient revenue to pay our bills; 2) Do away with Social Security, Medicare, and Affordable Healthcare Act, in order to cut taxes more so the wealthy and their corporate wealth can rinse and repeat.
If the Republicans are really concerned about the growing Fed debt, deficits, and inflation why don't they do something constructive about their concerns? Rolling back their 2017 R Tax Law could be a first step. Raising the marginal rates for the wealthiest Americans and corporations would be a second step. Investing in transitioning to clean energy and additional infrastructure investments would be a third step, and paying our bills and establishing a wealth tax would put us on the road to an economy that also can afford to pay our bills and address global challenges without threatening and sacrificing the health, safety, and security of all Americans, and the future of our democracy.
Perfectly state. As usual it’s the middle class who pay for these welfare Queens. And these 20 who are holding our country hostage are in their safe districts.
Have you ever been driving safely when you could see for the last few seconds that you were going to get hit by a car going too crazy and too fast? 1…2…3 IMPACT!!!! That is what the entire last 8 years has been like on a daily basis dealing with the insane GQP.
Anyone who witnessed the Davos session where those two fuckers "high-fived" already knows what bile tastes like. What a fucking country.
Thanks to the Arizona and West Virginia for sending these totally inept senators to us.
More self-serving and beholden to certain interests than inept. Unlikely any other Dem than Manchin would have been elected in WV, while Sinema, equally corrupt, seems to bask in negative energy.
Where were the Republicans when they passed the 2017 Republican Tax Act? Indeed, they understood by exempting corporate profits from our progressive income tax system, the Federal debt and deficits would skyrocket, along with income and wealth gaps. Since 1980 all empirical evidence indicates there is no relationship between just cutting taxes and economic growth, and that tax cuts should not be considered when the economy is already growing at a decent clip. Moreover, the Congressional Budget Office estimates must have required a set of very unrealistic assumptions, although they did conclude the 2017 Tax Act would increase both debt and deficits. As it turned out, Trump had no plan for economic growth, just failed ideology. Trump also had no plan for addressing our critical challenges like climate change and Infrastructure. Corporate tax cuts only increase the bottom-line of corporations. They buy back there stock with profits, which raises their valuations. With high valuations, they raise their prices to justify the higher valuations. This fuels inflation driven by profits.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/53787
Even before the Pandemic the economy began to slow in 2019 and Republicans had not paid a single cent towards reducing the debt and deficits, while 75% of economists were predicting a forthcoming recession. In addition to the tax giveaway to the wealthiest Americans and their 90% ownership of America's corporate wealth, the Trump Admin gave away public lands to private interests and turned the EPA into a chemical warfare plan targeting the health of Americans, supposedly to produce even more profits and growth.
Then a very ignorant and incompetent POTUS was faced with addressing a Pandemic. His first instincts were to lie about for three months and despite warnings from everyone, he had made no preparations for this probable challenge, and refused to listen to health experts even after the Pandemic took hold.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/pandemic-coronavirus-united-states-trump-cdc/608215/
https://www.axios.com/2020/04/07/exclusive-navarro-deaths-coronavirus-memos-january
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S
Trump lost his ill-conceived and ill-advised trade war with China and also lost a necessary global partner and strategic partner. Any chance Trump could resolve the nuclear threat of North Korea went down the toilet when he started his trade war and conducted it like a bully and a racist.
Now we are faced with the outcome of gerrymandered districts, voter suppression, and dark money that produced an army of R miscreants whose only immediate objectives are: 1) Maintaining the current taxation system that produces insufficient revenue to pay our bills; 2) Do away with Social Security, Medicare, and Affordable Healthcare Act, in order to cut taxes more so the wealthy and their corporate wealth can rinse and repeat.
If the Republicans are really concerned about the growing Fed debt, deficits, and inflation why don't they do something constructive about their concerns? Rolling back their 2017 R Tax Law could be a first step. Raising the marginal rates for the wealthiest Americans and corporations would be a second step. Investing in transitioning to clean energy and additional infrastructure investments would be a third step, and paying our bills and establishing a wealth tax would put us on the road to an economy that also can afford to pay our bills and address global challenges without threatening and sacrificing the health, safety, and security of all Americans, and the future of our democracy.
Perfectly state. As usual it’s the middle class who pay for these welfare Queens. And these 20 who are holding our country hostage are in their safe districts.
I live in some level of fear that we have not seen or heard the last of these two snakes in the grass.
I did it! I succumbed and bought the annual subscription! Yay for me! ❤️