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"Trump Tax 'Hoax' Would Blow $5 Trillion Hole In Budget Over Next Decade: Analysis
… "The idea that
this plan would help average Americans instead of the wealthy and big
corporations has been a hoax all along," said Frank Clemente,
executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF), which on
Tuesday released an analysis showing that Trump's plan would likely
leave a $5 trillion hole in the federal budget over the next ten
years.
"This isn't 'tax
reform,’ it’s just a big giveaway to millionaires and
corporations, and it won’t ‘trickle down’ to the rest of us,"
Clemente said. "It won’t help small businesses, but it will
help Wall Street hedge fund managers and real estate moguls like
Donald Trump. This plan will not lead to robust job creation or
economic growth, but its eye-popping cost will lead to deep cuts in
Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and public education that will
leave working families in the cold."
... According to the ATF's
analysis—based on recent media reports, earlier Trump statements,
and other GOP tax plans—the White House's new tax cuts could total
$6.7 to $8.3 trillion the next decade, leaving $3 to $5 trillion of
which may not be paid for by closing other tax loopholes and/or by
limiting tax deductions." Such a plan, the group said, is likely
to:
~ Provide massive tax cuts
that largely benefit the richest Americans and biggest
corporations—through direct tax cuts and indirectly through big
cuts in corporate taxes, 80% of which benefit wealthier Americans,
according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center.
~ Provide a modest
middle-class tax cut, largely by doubling the standard deduction,
although much of that could be taken away if the tax plan repeals the
personal exemption and the head of household filing status.
~ Not come close to being
paid for by closing tax loopholes, which will likely result in deep
cuts now or next year to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public
education and many other priorities working families depend on. *** These
cuts were outlined in President Trump’s FY2018 budget, which
proposed $4.3 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, public
education and other non-defense programs; and in the House budget,
which proposed $5.8 trillion in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid public
education and other non-defense programs and that is awaiting floor
action. … “
* (All emphasis, including re blue highlighting, red asterisks and red lettering is mine!)
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can read more here
( Courtesy of Common Dreams )
( Both memes above are courtesy of Americans for Tax Fairness )
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AND, keep calling your Representatives in D.C. to tell them to stop Trump GOP from acting on anything that will do harm to American citizens -- like the current proposed blueprint for tax cuts for the wealthy that are going to be paid for by The People in one way or another per Trump/GOP budget proposals (as suggested in Bullet 3 in the Focused Read piece). TY!
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"Don't be fooled by the
Clinton-Sanders feud, Dems are united
Opinion by Margie Omero -- 9/21/17
Maybe, like me, your
personal feed is still filled with Hillary Clinton versus Bernie
Sanders squabbles, with hardly any break since spring 2016. Seemingly
every story has the potential to cause a flare-up, like the greasy
meal before the pimple: news of a Russian company’s Facebook buy,
Clinton’s new book, Sanders’s “Medicare for all” plan, and a
constant stream of 2020 stories. Even news of Democratic National
Committee Chairman Tom Perez teaching a course at Brown University
caused a Clinton-Sanders fight between my Facebook friends and their
friends of friends.
It’s exhausting. But is
it real? That is, are Democratic voters overall, not just paid
operatives and the most active of activist, still divided? The
polling suggests not.
... (third) far from a toxic family
feud, Democrats are actually quite united on both Sanders and
Clinton. Just last month, the WSJ/NBC poll found Clinton to be less
popular than Trump, causing a massive wave of negative headlines. But
thanks to my friends at Public Opinion Strategies for running the
numbers just among Democrats, we learned she is just about as popular
with the base, at 62 percent positive and 17 percent negative, as
Sanders, at 70 percent positive and 7 percent negative. Other recent
polling from HuffPost/YouGov shows a majority of Democrats are
favorable toward both Clinton and Sanders, with the “Clinton wings”
and “Sanders wings” each numbering in the teens.
And while Clinton’s new
book, “What Happened,” has prompted many to write stories
suggesting Democrats are angry at Clinton for her visibility, the
polling doesn’t bear that out. Clear majorities of Democrats think
every tested potential role for Clinton is appropriate, from
book-writing and charitable fundraising to “continuing to influence
the Democratic Party.” (Thanks to my friends at Morning Consult for
running crosstabs from their recent collaboration with the New York
Times.)
Trump is so destructive,
so disappointing, and so erratic that it’s natural to want to find
something, anything, to blame. And 2016 was obviously intense, making
it understandable that operatives are still reeling. In my own house,
we still haven’t completely recovered. My husband,Julian Mulvey,
was the creative director of Sanders’s television ads, including
one Clinton herself called “poetry” in a debate.
I was neutral in the
primary, spending months trying to balance my job calling polling
balls and strikes, my personal excitement about a first woman
president, and my pride in the beautiful moving ads my husband
created. Even now, campaign talks come right after our conversations
about whose turn it is to give the kids a bath. But watching your
fights about Clinton and Sanders is like hanging out with the
always-bickering couple or the siblings who relitigate their rivalry
year in and year out
The good news is most
Democratic voters don’t feel like you. They’re united and ready
to take on the real threat: President Trump, his congressional
enablers, and the dysfunction and cruelty they promote. As someone
once said in another context, there are some very fine people on both
sides of this Democratic debate. Let’s follow their lead."
Omero is a
Democratic pollster and co-host of The Pollsters weekly podcast.
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The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee Website
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⭐⭐⭐ Federal Government Operations | Vanity Fair | Newsweek | MSNBC Contributor | Author
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Voting Rights/Voter Suppression | Author | Mother Jones
→ Some of the most credible media -- at the moment:
📰📰📰 Mother Jones
→ Some of the most credible Talking Heads -- at the moment -- and their Twitter handles:
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