Kavanaugh provides smoke screen for house to pass 3 trillion dollar tax cut

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Here is Tax Cut 2.0 brought to you by House Reptilians.
With the nation's attention rightly transfixed by the Senate GOP's monstrous efforts to ram through a Supreme Court nominee who has been credibly accused by multiple women of sexual assault, House Republicans on Friday voted overwhelmingly to approve another $3 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans just weeks before the November midterms.

"In less than a year, House Republicans have handed out trillions of tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations. Now, middle class families are on the hook for higher healthcare costs, and Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block."
—Rep. Richard Neal

"Today the GOP doubled down on last year's giveaway to the donor class known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," Morris Pearl, chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, said in a statement following the 220-191 vote. "Tax Cuts 2.0 gives nearly $3 trillion to the wealthiest Americans, and will become yet another excuse for Republicans to slash Medicare and Social Security."

"In less than a year, House Republicans have handed out trillions of tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations," added Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee. "Now, middle class families are on the hook for higher healthcare costs, and Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block."

Three Democrats—Reps. Conor Lamb (Penn.), Jacky Rosen (Nev.), and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.)—voted for the GOP-crafted measure, which would permanently extend the individual tax cuts under the current Republican tax law.

According to the an analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center (TPC), the House GOP's measure—which progressive critics have denounced as "Tax Scam 2.0"—would send the vast majority of benefits to the very top.

"The richest one percent of filers would see an average tax cut of $40,000, while those in the middle 20 percent of earners would see an average cut of $980," the Washington Post noted in a summary of TPC's findings.

"The American people are already paying too high a price for the GOP's blatant disregard for our families and our economy," Ryan Thomas of the Not One Penny coalition said in a statement on Friday. "This is yet another shameful tax law that would swindle working families and siphon even more funding from the programs that help our communities thrive—all in order to give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires and wealthy corporations."

"Today's vote is yet another call for us to end the culture of corruption endemic in the Republican Party," Thomas concluded. "The GOP believes they can continue to put the wants of the wealthiest people and corporations above the needs of the American people—but the American people are watching and we will hold them accountable."
https://www.alternet.org/nation-transfi ... n-tax-cuts

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Re: Kavanaugh provides smoke screen for house to pass 3 trillion dollar tax cut

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There is an article in today's NY Times about how the corruption of one-party rule by the ANC in South Africa has led to a mafia-esque rapid pattern of political hits, almost exclusively against party members bucking the worst graft. Even pols who took some of it but challenged the worst have been murdered, and the supposed-reform President who replaced Zuma has done NOTHING to stop it.
Over 80 politicians have been murdered in the last two years, and, despite what the white racists here and in the White House say, the victims have been overwhelmingly Black, not White.

As we see the culture of Mario's Mushroom to "total annihilation of your enemies" (see Andrew McCabe, and the continual attacks on President Obama and Secretary Clinton), and the disgusting performance and rants by Rethugs and their thuggish SCOTUS nominee, it's easy to see how it can easily devolve into murder. Putin's Poodle may WELL want to use Putin's method of murdering opponents or destroying their reputations by planting kiddie porn on their computers (as happened to a guy in the UK--Scotland Yard determined it was a plant but the news didn't make it back to Mother Russia) in the future.

I keep coming back to a memory from the mid-70s of a college professor who had been in Germany in the 30's and spoke of the pathos of watching a nation strip itself of its culture, a point usually not noted in all the horrors of the Nazi dictatorship. We are seeing that happen day by day here, and can only hope that November 6 puts some brakes on it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/worl ... e=Homepage
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YankeeTarheel wrote: Sun Sep 30, 2018 9:38 am If the Dems win either, or both Houses expect a GIANT rush of lame-duck bills to be shoe-horned through.
Mario's Mushroom may WELL get his wish if the Dems take over the Senate--and end the filibuster!
"Be careful what you wish for!"
And if the Dems don't take over, those same bills would be passed for 2+ more years.

There is no good outcome for 2018 except to see something good happen in November.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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