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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo can anything be done about this fucking tax scam if Dems get control of the House and Senate
next year? I am guessing we would need 2/3rd majority though, meaning we are fucked? So we are looking at 2021 before anything can realistically be done and the debt will have already skyrocketed by then?
KPN
(15,650 posts)that ain't going to happen. We just have to tough it out and never forget ... and never forgive.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,789 posts)it will take work turning red districts blue. People will be mad as hell by then.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Short of 2/3 majorities, it won't be fixed until 2021 at the earliest.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)They'll be convinced that Democrats are the cause of their suffering, especially those uppity women and persons of color. We can hope, though, that it will suppress Republican turnout.
We just have to GOTV. We just have to outnumber them. We can't count on them seeing the error of their ways.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)He doesn't pay attention to policy, has no loyalty to Republicans and signs whatever someone puts in front of him. So if Democrats send him a "fix" he'll probably say it was his idea all along and sign it.
If Pence is president, he might actually read the bill and veto it.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)plain and simple, we should be out in the streets!!
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Freddie
(9,273 posts)Like they did with the ACA. Won't accomplish anything but it will piss them off and waste time.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)Plus, in the fall of next year, the current tax laws will still have been in effect. Nothing will change until people start filing their tax returns for 2018 in early 2019.
Certainly if we get control of the House and Senate we can try to change this. But don't hold your breath for anything substantive to happen.
unblock
(52,317 posts)and then the automatic spending cuts to try to make up for it, plus further political pressure on any more spending and political pressure for additional spending cuts,....
plus corporations will have an incentive to flush their cash out while they can take advantage of the crazy low rates, a number will leave themselves with too little and become vulnerable and will go belly-up when the recession hits....
plenty of pain even before much of it expires in 10 years.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)connect any automatic cuts to the tax bill.
unblock
(52,317 posts)donnie would veto anything good and we won't have 2/3rds in both houses any time soon.
but once we have those three, we can reverse the tax scam and even restore progressivity via the same reconciliation rules. no need for 60 votes.