The
Republicans in the Senate just pulled out the credit card and charged one of
the biggest tax cuts in our history.
At a time of
record unemployment, record stock market gains, and big business booming it is
hard to justify the need for a tax cut.
One point
four trillion dollars ($1,400,000,000,000.00) will now be added to our already
massive debt; and maybe it is worth it.
Now we can repair our road system and bridges, modernize our national
power grid, construct a high-speed rail system connecting the east coast and
west coast, create millions of high paying jobs, make Medicaid, Medicare and
Social Security solvent into the distant future.
But that is
not what is happening.
The
Republican tax bill gives huge tax breaks to multi-national companies that are
already raking in record profits. It cuts
taxes on multi-millionaires and billionaires (and if you don’t believe Trump stands to make hundreds of millions from
this tax cut, I have some swamp land in Florida I will sell you.) This is one of the largest giveaways to the
mega-wealthy sine Reagan.
This tax
bill, also makes massive cuts to education – including student loans, cuts to
health care that will leave millions uninsured, cuts to hospitals and emergency
services, and cuts across the board to social programs.
In two to
three years, claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility, the Republicans
will cry the that the national debt is unsustainable, and they will demand cuts
in Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security to bring down the deficit.
Hard working
middle class people that voted Republican, as well as the rest of us, now must
pay the price.
Republican voters have been duped by the Republican
shell game and allowed to find the marble with God, guns, gays and abortion
under the obvious paper cup; now the bait and switch has been accomplished and
rubes must now pay the huckster.
It is time
to remove the emerald glasses and realize the man behind the curtain has just
pulled the leaver on you; and vote out the Republicans in the 2018 election.
the Ol’Buzzard
Did you expect anything different out of the "SWAMP"?
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