“This tax bill isn’t what he promised. That is not my doing or my fault.”
And if you voted for Trump for Dictator, you’d undoubtedly be getting exactly what you voted for. But you didn’t cast your vote for the office of Fuehrer...you voted for a President is a system of distributed power. In fact, this president is extremely limited in power simply because he has exceedingly few political allies anywhere in the other two co-equal branches of government.
You have a Senate made up of elites who became Uber-wealthy in lifetime positions that skim and extort from Federal spending in order to line their own bank accounts. Trump has no power over these bodies...he cannot even get his immigration policies in place because of district court judges from those same socialist states that vote their taxes into the stratosphere in order to then deduct them on their Federal returns.
You lost in sausage-mill of government this time and you can be pissed off about it. That’s fair...I’d be pissed if I still had to live in one of the socialist states too. That is fair. But to blame the president you voted for for this situation because he doesn’t have the power that Hitler or Mussolini or Stalin had borders on delusion. If Trump had the power to implement his policy, you’d be happy today. But to be angry at him because he doesn’t have that power in our system of government is just howling at the fates.
Thanks for a well thought out and civil post. It is refreshing.
True, Trump is not a dictator - and he had to work with Congress.
But it isn't like Trump didn't have any input into this process. In fact, he said this:
Trump: 'I will be blaming Mnuchin and Cohn' for any trouble with tax reform
If Trump didn't want tax cuts to hit so hard on many middle class, he had these two Goldman Sachs veterans working with Congress.
But as I said before, my side lost this effort. Both the House and Senate bills passed. A bill will be on the President's desk shortly, and both bills are very similar.
I hope the economy does do well. But the balance sheets of most coroporations have been filled with cash for some time, and they have not used that to "reinvest." Instead, they sat on it or used much of it to buy back stock. Salaries of high ranking executives and their stock dividends seemed to be the areas of priority rather than wages. Even Gary Cohn was mystified when he asked a room of CEO's who would reinvest in their companies, and only a handful of hands went up.
I don't even think most Republicans on the hill are positive about what is going to happen. They have made a big gamble. And many of us will be paying for the bet.
Anyway, time to move on to the next issue. The tax bill debate is pretty much over.