Posted on 09/27/2017 12:58:39 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Drudge rips Trump tax plan: Difference between Dems and GOP is an 'illusion'
By Josh Delk - 09/27/17 12:16 PM EDT
The Drudge Report's Matt Drudge sent out a rare tweet Wednesday morning criticizing the GOP for making concessions to Democrats on taxes and health care, saying there is no longer an "illusion" of difference between the two major parties.
"First keep Obamacare, now raise taxes on top earners? At least illusion there is difference between parties is finished once and for all!" Drudge said, taking aim at proposals in the new GOP tax plan.
The website also led with a scathing headline: "More Betrayal Republican Plan to Raise Taxes."
Republicans Wednesday unveiled their framework for a major tax overhaul, which includes big cuts to corporate taxes and lowering individual tax rates, and completely nixing the estate tax.
But the plan also says that "an additional top rate may apply to the highest-income taxpayers to ensure that the reformed tax code is at least as progressive" as the current one.
It also would raise the lowest individual tax bracket from 10 to 12 percent, while nearly doubling the standard tax deduction.
Drudge's tweet also bashes Republicans for another recent failure at repealing ObamaCare, a major GOP campaign platform, with party leaders in Congress deciding not to vote on the latest bill proposed by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.).
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
bad, bad, bad spell check
Conservative puritanism is not good for America
WTF? I just read the report from Reuters that didn’t mention a raise from 10 to 12% in it. Is it in there or not?
I have almost stopped going to Drudge since his site seems to be nothing but sex and junk. I looked last night and this morning to see if he had posted about the Alabama primary runoff and found one headline buried about halfway in the columns. I've seen many anti-Trump but very few pro-Trump headlines in the past several months.
I was addressing the quote in the article from Matt Drudge that this thread is based on in which Mr. Drudge is upset that high earners would see their taxes go up and I was pointing out that quite to the contrary, the 5 trillion dollar increase in the national debt will primarily channel to the highest earners. There was no value judgment, just a factual refutation of an erroneous statement in the article.
Maybe Matt ran out of Sex robot stories. Those must be his fetish.
Ann is never happy. She is more pessimistic than most P*ssyhat wearers.
the liberty daily
Did you?
Gotta love “tax relief” that makes your tax liability skyrocket
If you are a globalist Free Traitor™ then stay in the Republican Party. The got your back.
It is not possible to discuss tax reform without discussing tariff rates. This is all an illusion(nice way of saying BS) to keep globalists in power.
Those that are forced into paying large sums of money via alimony because of divorce get hosed too. (I'm one of those...)
I'm all for tax cuts, I'm all for tax reform however when I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination and I end up paying more? That's not a cut and that's certainly NOT reform.
Reform means GOVERNMENT SPENDS LESS. That's nowhere to be found here.
They also are repealing personal exemptions. For us - the higher standard deduction doesn’t come close to making up for an extra $20k in taxable income.
The democrats also despise large conservative catholic families. Oh look! I’m looking at nearly an extra $25k in taxable income.
Well I guess that serves me right for producing more CO2 emitters that are causing hurricanes & earthquakes.
“Tax relief”??....pfffft!
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The Stupid Party just never learns and is forever seeking to be loved by Democrats and the MSM. They are just incapable of learning.
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IMO, some have had 40yrs of ‘examples’, yet keep right on pulling the (R) lever election after election. The Party backs those in violent opposition to the platform/ideals (Snow/Collins/etc.), yet still they pull the lever. The Party silently consents to those elected, under their banner, whom have opposed and betrayed the platform, their oath and the Constitution...and still they pull the (R) lever.
The moniker wouldn’t exist if not for the electorate, so why would anyone expect the elected to buck the trend (even if it’s ONE term, they’re still making *B-A-N-K* from the taxpayers\Treasury).
The question is whom is the more moronic: The lever puller sheeple, or those that successfully game the system/sheeple?
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Drudge seems to have had it out for Trump since the day he said he didn’t want transgender freaks in the military.
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But it doesn’t make his point invalid. Broken-clock syndrome should be lauded....both times :).
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