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Here We Go: Republican Leaders to Oppose Trump Tax Cuts
The Gateway Pundit ^ | Dec 12th, 2016 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 12/13/2016 10:36:32 AM PST by VitacoreVision

You just knew this was coming…

Republican leader Mitch McConnell warned today he will not pass Donald Trump’s tax cuts.

Senate Majority Leader McConnell has a different plan.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-12/mcconnell-warning-of-dangerous-debt-wants-tax-cut-offsets

Bloomberg.com reported:

President-elect Donald Trump’s race to enact the biggest tax cuts since the 1980s went under a caution flag Monday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned he considers current levels of U.S. debt “dangerous” and said he wants any tax overhaul to avoid adding to the deficit.

“I think this level of national debt is dangerous and unacceptable,” McConnell said, adding he hopes Congress doesn’t lose sight of that when it acts next year. “My preference on tax reform is that it be revenue neutral,” he said.

During a news conference, McConnell also poured cold water on the idea of a massive stimulus package, effectively laying out markers on taxes and spending that that could cramp Trump’s ambitions.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan think tank, has projected that Trump’s plans would increase the debt by $5.3 trillion over a decade, with deficits already over $600 billion a year and rising on autopilot.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: rino; taxcuts; trump; uniparty
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1 posted on 12/13/2016 10:36:32 AM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

Turtle Head the tax revenue expert speaketh wind. I’d rather listen to Art Laffer on this subject, and Trump would, too, apparently, since he’s taking tax cut advice from Laffer not Turtle Head.


2 posted on 12/13/2016 10:38:18 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Guess bringing Elaine Chow on board won’t have the desired effect.


3 posted on 12/13/2016 10:38:29 AM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Paulie

That’s Chao, not Chow. My apologies to Ms. Chao.


4 posted on 12/13/2016 10:39:48 AM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: VitacoreVision

NO. We can’t ever do anything that might influence or diminish the all-powerful social-engineering leftist nanny-state!! Its priorities always come first!


5 posted on 12/13/2016 10:42:38 AM PST by PGR88
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To: VitacoreVision
"Mitch McConnell warned he considers current levels of U.S. debt “dangerous."

And Mitch would never consider substantial spending cuts to deal with this because massive spending is how he generates his campaign contributions by taking care of establishment corporate donors.

6 posted on 12/13/2016 10:43:26 AM PST by circlecity
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To: VitacoreVision

Fine. Trump will keep doing what he had been — going to the people and stirring them up to action.

It’s time for turtle soup.


7 posted on 12/13/2016 10:44:27 AM PST by GCC Catholic (Make America Great Again!)
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To: PGR88

McConnell has yet to realize he is NOT dealing with a “professional politician” any longer...

Rude awakening for McConnell and assoc.


8 posted on 12/13/2016 10:44:42 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: VitacoreVision

BTW, Hoft...McConnell is NOT the Republican “leader”...That would be PRESIDENT Trump....


9 posted on 12/13/2016 10:46:18 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: GCC Catholic

Wouldn’t hurt to appoint Ted Nugent Sergeant-at-Arms


10 posted on 12/13/2016 10:46:31 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: VitacoreVision


Black protesters with their clenched fists raised in the air were photographed and displayed on the cover of Revolution, the official newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Elaborating about the many “great things that are happening” in the Communist Party USA, party chairman John Bachtell told Gawker.com in an interview, posted on August 15, 2015, “Black Lives Matter has played an important role.” This is not surprising, since, as The New American has reported, the co-creators of the #BlackLivesMatter slogan that suddenly appeared on posters, T-shirts, Tweets, and protest banners are Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi, three radical lesbian Marxists who identify themselves as “queer Black women” and who idolize former Communist Party leader Angela Davis and communist terrorist/cop-killer Assata Shakur.

SOURCE:
The Communist Pedigree of the Clenched-fist Salute

23 September 2015
11 posted on 12/13/2016 10:46:44 AM PST by VitacoreVision
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“Mitch McConnell warned he considers current levels of U.S. debt “dangerous.”

And you did nothing for 8 years but play with your crotch and stuffed your pockets. FUMitch


12 posted on 12/13/2016 10:47:18 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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WHERE THE HELL HAVE THEY BEEN? My gawd!! they ran up a 20 TRILLION Dollar DEFICIT!! They did nothing but capitulate! Now they get Jesus? Are you kidding me ?? We just voted for our tax cuts— we get out tax cuts. You bastards start cutting spending and better do it quick or the deficit gets REAL BIG— Just print the damned money but don’t take it from us!! We just voted TRUMP in on the absolute position to cut our taxes— So get out of the way!!


13 posted on 12/13/2016 10:47:52 AM PST by WENDLE (Merry CHRISTx.)
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Thanks again to the voters of ky who reelected this POS. BTY you bespectacled AH tax legislation starts in the house not in your turkey throat.


14 posted on 12/13/2016 10:49:43 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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And we just can't get the citizens of Kentucky to help rid our nation of these scoundrels.
15 posted on 12/13/2016 10:50:43 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: VitacoreVision

The voters voted for this, so here is a thought establishment.

Your time is up, you and your elitist pals can go and pound sound, or d the frigging job you were elected to do.


16 posted on 12/13/2016 10:51:18 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Yeah, right and that’s why they raise the debt ceiling year after year.


17 posted on 12/13/2016 10:55:24 AM PST by nikos1121 (I hear Kasich is being considered for post master general.)
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To: PGR88

Blah blah blah.


18 posted on 12/13/2016 10:56:32 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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To: VitacoreVision

the same idiot who passed through every bammy budget??


19 posted on 12/13/2016 10:59:38 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: VitacoreVision

I am certainly hoping for 20+% cut in the Federal Government. And, yes, we need the tax cuts also. But the Federal Government needs to cut down to size - although I am sure Turtle and I don’t have the same view point on this.


20 posted on 12/13/2016 11:00:23 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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