The disease is a GOP Establishment that raised taxes on middle class Americans in order to give away a massive tax break to corporations.
Your view is borrowed straight from the leftist playbook.
Please. I am no leftist. The truth of this garbage of a bill is what it is. For months, many of us on this board have warned that come election season, the Democrats won't even have to lie when making campaign commercials about this. The can play sad piano music in the background as a retired couple or a young family goes over papers with worried looks on their faces, and the narrator says that Republicans raised their taxes while the very wealthy and Trillion dollar corporations got a huge tax break.
The only muted effectiveness in their coming tactic is that the worst of the tax increases won't hit people until after the 2018 mid-terms. Many Americans (like myself) have taken some financial steps to thwart some IRS confiscation of our money - but that will only work for a short time.
These are pictures of ordinary, hard working Americans around the country who had to scramble (right after the holidays) to pre-pay thousands in property taxes before January 1st, so as to avoid having the IRS take even more of their money because of this tax bill.
And I already know your rebuttal to this: "Gee, they should blame their states for these taxes."
Look pal - they already know the state taxes them. What you fail to admit is that it was the Federal Government - the REPUBLICANS - who took away or capped deductions that had been in the tax code to prevent double taxation, and that change was specifically put into the bill to generate over a Trillion in revenue from the middle class to make up for the loss in revenue from corporations.
they can easily appeal to man’s tendency toward envy and resentment and make the false argument that for one to prosper, another must have been cheated. But this is a false argument
Good heavens! Look - do people on this board debate how ObamaCare has screwed them? Do people on this board show displeasure on how illegal immigration has ruined their emergency rooms and schools? Do people here talk about how crime has impacted them personally?
This tax bill SCREWS millions of us. But people like you not only don't want to admit that truth, you demand that the people getting shafted be happy about it.