Sanders: Democrats have been 'completely shut out' of tax reform
Source: The Hill
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 11/19/17 09:50 AM EST
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) pushed back on President Trump's claim that Democrats have been obstructionists on tax reform, saying on Sunday that Democrats have been shut out of the process.
"Democrats have been completely shut out of this process just as they've been shut out of the healthcare legislation process," Sanders told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." Sanders was referring to a tweet from Trump on Saturday, in which he accused Democrats of being "obstructionists" during the tax reform process.
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Sanders called the tweet "total nonsense."
"What this legislation is about is fulfilling the promises, Republican promises, made to wealthy campaign contributors. There is a reason why the billionaire class provides hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions to Republicans, and now is payback time," the senator said.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/361086-sanders-democrats-have-been-completely-shut-out-of-tax-reform
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)So they just keep recycling the same millions of dollars?
Doesn't make sense, except I suppose congress members find a way to take personal cuts.
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)Those millions in tax breaks come from the rest of us.
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)I am trying to learn how this scam works exactly.
I know that the billionaires bribe congress with $millions.
Congress critters get quite wealthy passing laws favoring the 1%.
The laws passed suck money out of the economy (from the non 1%ers).
Kind of like how Putin has sucked out a lot of money from the Russian economy.
Russians have a lower standard of living than the Chinese right now.
What I don't understand is why no one is paying attention to any of this.
subterranean
(3,427 posts)The billionaires and corporations donate 100s of millions to campaigns, and get billions back in the form of tax breaks and deregulation. They wouldn't donate all that money if they didn't get a big return on their investment. The reduction of the corporate tax rate to 20% (while keeping the existing loopholes and deductions) and the repeal of the estate tax will be a massive windfall for the top 0.1 percent.
Will they be satisfied with that? Hell, no. Eventually they'll be coming after our Social Security and Medicare, too. They want it all.
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)Senators especially become vastly wealthy when they enter office.
And yes the 1% are money hoarders. No amount of money will satisfy them.
Once they have take the 99%ers money, I assume they will turn on each other.
It is really a sickness. They will destroy everything to get their money fix.
erronis
(15,222 posts)Back in the days of innocence and Marx, it went something along the lines of 'religion for the masses'.
Opioids are simpler to distribute with little worries about religious fanatics/zealots. They can also be used to just flat-out poison the plebes to death if needed.
With the latest versions of fentanyl and carfentanil, the targets don't even know they've been given a death sentence. With justice these will make their way into the lines of white powder so enjoyed by the clubby set.
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 19, 2017, 07:27 PM - Edit history (1)
Young people with all kinds of learning disabilities and personality disruption.
Old people with dementia.
Hard for most to survive financially.
So they keep the populace sick and struggling.
And yes opioids will kill off a sizable segment.
Oh anything that harms the elite will immediately be taken care of.
erronis
(15,222 posts)It was sponsorship and it was gross, but because it was essentially invisible, and because people genuinely seemed to seek it outattendance had undeniably spikedRoy and Ida had been looking the other way and letting it happen, and now they really didnt have a choice. It was an inevitable shortcut, or even a stage of evolution, in architecture, assisting the publics reaction and securing that most prized of currencies: human fucking feeling. How to create it, how to create it? And why not use all the help you could get?
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)Never thought I would live to see the day when no one seems to care that Russia
has taken over America.
Podkayne K
(145 posts)By calling it that we fall into the Greedy Ole' Pedophile's vocabulary trap. Reform means making something better. This ain't it!
Instead, we need a new moniker. Such As:
The Billionaire Enhancement Act
The No Billionaire Left Behind Act
The We Will, We Will Fuck You Act
The UR Screwed Act (Of course, these last two apply to every bill the Pukes propose)
The We Don't Pay No Stinkin' Taxes Act
The We Have a Need For Greed Act
The We Not Only Molest Your Teen Daughters but your Pitiful Bank Accounts as Well Act
The Taxes Are For Suckers Act
The We Got Ours Now We'll Get Yours Too Act
The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Taxes Act
The Now You See It, Now You... Who Are We Kidding, You'll Never See It Act
And Please feel free to add to this.