"We stole $2,000,000,000,000 from the US Treasury, but we gave you $600 of it! Why complain?"

[scheming daemons]

That's basically the argument the Republicans are making.

[kentuck]

1. Yes, think about what we gave you, not what we took away...

There's a sucker born every minute.

[democratisphere]

3. redumbliCONs depend on a new crop of suckers to be born every minute.

Suckers fuel their destruction.

[democratisphere]

2. Hush slush money.

[el_bryanto]

4. We are heading for another great depression

The cuts in social services that this tax cut will necessitate will ensure that we are unable to deal with the next crisis without drastic action. And I don't see an FDR coming along and making such changes; I could be wrong there, but it seems like that was a one time deal.

Bryant

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Some blue state voters WISH they were getting tax cuts

but most of them pay more right away.

Let me know when everybody wakes up and wants to hit the streets...

[L. Coyote]

6. TRUTH: "We stole $2,000,000,000,000 from the US Treasury, and we gave you $6,000 each in new debt."

Never forget, they only LIE.

[Sophia4]

7. Ditto.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. "Don't you feel better that you're getting a few more dollars (crumbs) in your paycheck?"

"Pay no attention to the the mind-boggling amounts of money corporations will be taking in and how much we're pumping up the deficits behind the curtain!"


Supply-side economics is like a Zombie monster that just won't die no matter how many times it's tried and no matter how many times it ultimately fails. It would be nice if somebody can just figure out some way to kill it once and for all. I mean, you'd think that the "boogeyman" arguments for why your life sucks (i.e. liberals, immigrants, minorities, welfare queens, queers, et. al) would cease to be effective.......eventually?

[BadgerMom]

9. We need more messaging, pronto.

Josh Marshall on TPM has a piece on how he believes #GOPtaxscam should be “heist.” But he says it’s not because he wants to nitpick. He thinks messaging on the tax bill has been done well.

Then the Washington Post published a story today outlining how the GOP plans to build support for the bill in the near term. Their plan includes airing commercials, heralding the news of middle class taxpayers who do have lower 2018 tax bills and other strategies developed by Koch-backed entities. We need to have a counter punch to keep our message, which needs to be sustained, out there.