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Post by lucyg on Apr 9, 2024 22:36:34 GMT
erm. Yes, and let’s discuss the Jewish refugees whose ships were turned back to Europe just prior to WWII because no one wanted a bunch of desperate Jews landing here. That went well for everyone involved. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 9, 2024 23:24:17 GMT
Republicans know they're in trouble on abortion. Some are just doubling down and embracing the bans. Others like Nikki Haley are trying to ignore it. And Trump, not surprisingly, is lying. Project 2025 lays out very clear plans to withdraw FDA approval for abortion medications. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/09/trump-abortion-arizona-court-decision/By now it is clear how Trump has used the abortion issue to advance his own political ambitions. By declaring his strong opposition to abortion and by championing conservative nominees to the Supreme Court, he helped to cement support among evangelical Christians. They are now among his strongest backers.
His statement Monday was the latest effort to turn the issue to his personal advantage. On the politics, he is correct about the dangers to Republicans of continuing the intense debate about abortion rights. But as Pence said, he has abandoned those whose interests he once vowed to serve.
There is no safe harbor for Trump and the Republicans at this point. The abortion issue is no less complex and no less difficult for many Americans than it was while Roe was in force. But politically the winds have shifted, and done so dramatically.
Trump can make his own statements about state vs. national restrictions, but the debate set off by the Supreme Court nearly two years ago is not abating, as Arizona’s landmark decision Tuesday showed. Trump set this in motion, and now it is mostly out of his control. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/opinion/trump-abortion-states.html?pgtype=Article&action=click&module=RelatedLinksTrump’s address was, naturally, full of lies, including the absurd claim that “all legal scholars, both sides,” wanted Roe v. Wade overturned and the obscene calumny that Democrats support “execution after birth.” But the most misleading part of his spiel was the way he implied that in a second Trump administration, abortion law would be left entirely up to the states.
Should Trump return to power, he plans to surround himself with die-hard MAGA activists, not the establishment types he blames for undermining him during his first term. And many of these activists have plans to restrict abortion nationally without passing any new laws at all.
Some anti-abortion leaders, knowing that their schemes are unpopular, don’t want Trump to talk about them before he’s in office. Speaking of Comstock, a movement attorney told The Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey: “It’s obviously a political loser, so just keep your mouth shut. Say you oppose a federal ban, and see if that works.”
That is clearly what Trump is trying to do. Whether it works is up to all of us.www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/opinion/trump-abortion-dobbs-election.htmlJAMELLE BOUIE The Man Who Snuffed Out Abortion Rights Is Here to Tell You He Is a Moderate You should think of Trump instead as a purely instrumental speaker. It does not matter to him whether a statement is true or false. It does not matter if one statement contradicts another, in the same speech or in the same paragraph or in the same sentence. What matters to Trump is whether the words serve the purpose at hand. He will say anything if it’s what he feels an audience wants to hear or if it moves him one step closer to a personal or political goal.
In a direct-to-camera statement on Truth Social, the former president told his audience that he does not support a national ban on abortion. “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint,” Trump said. “The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state.”
But there’s no reason to take Trump’s rhetoric at face value. Trump is aware, like virtually everyone who follows American politics, that Republicans are dangerously vulnerable on abortion rights. What does Trump say immediately before giving his states’ rights position on abortion? He praises himself for ending Roe: “Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights, especially since I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and, in fact, demanded be ended: Roe v. Wade.” This claim, that all sides wanted an end to Roe, is a total fabrication, but it serves to give Trump cover as he tries to be all things to all people.
Trump is saying what he thinks his audience — in the public and in the press — wants to hear. He’s trying to put abortion in the rearview mirror, to treat it as a settled fact that he wants a less strident approach to reproductive rights.
The truth of the matter is that given a second term in office, Trump and his allies will do everything in their power to ban abortion nationwide, with or without a Republican majority in Congress. Recall that in his 2016 campaign, Trump said that there had to be “some form” of punishment for women who had abortions. Later, as president, he backed a House bill that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks. Anti-abortion strategists have not been shy about their plan to use the 1873 Comstock Act, an anti-obscenity law, as legal authority for executive actions to limit abortions throughout the country, in blue states as well as red ones.
We do not have to speculate about Trump’s relationship to abortion and reproductive rights as leader of the Republican Party. He is, after all, a former president of the United States. We already know what he wants, what he’ll do and what he’ll sign. Trump landed a major blow against legal abortion during his first term. If given a second, he will land another. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 9, 2024 23:30:18 GMT
Arizona's 160 year old abortion ban is now enforceable but on hold until other challenges have been heard www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/arizona-abortion-ban.htmlArizona Reinstates 160-Year-Old Abortion Ban The state’s highest court said the law, moribund for decades under Roe v. Wade, was now enforceable, but it put its decision on hold for a lower court to hear other challenges to the law. Arizona’s highest court on Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions, a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for women’s health care and election-year politics in a critical battleground state.
“Physicians are now on notice that all abortions, except those necessary to save a woman’s life, are illegal,” the court said in a 4-to-2 decision.
But the court, whose justices are all Republican appointees, also put its ruling on hold for the moment and sent the matter back to a lower court for additional arguments about the law’s constitutionality. Abortion providers said they expected to continue performing abortions through May as their lawyers and Democratic lawmakers searched for new legal arguments and additional tactics to delay the ruling. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 9, 2024 23:39:08 GMT
Sometimes Republicans are their own worst enemy. On access to medical care, I don't think this old white guy could be more insulting. This situation is a direct result of the Supreme Court undoing Roe and Republican states passing extreme abortion bans. get a bus ticket
Hear that pregnant ladies? Having to “get a bus ticket” to another state to see a gynecologist “isn’t the worst thing in the world” if you’re a white guy yammering on Fox. |
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Post by Merge on Apr 9, 2024 23:44:55 GMT
Sometimes Republicans are their own worst enemy. On access to medical care, I don't think this old white guy could be more insulting. This situation is. direct result of the Supreme Court undoing Roe and Republican states passing extreme abortion bans. getting a bus ticket
Hear that pregnant ladies? Having to “get a bus ticket” to another state to see a gynecologist “isn’t the worst thing in the world” if you’re a white guy yammering on Fox.
I enjoy that argument about as much as I enjoy people who tell women in red states to "just move" if they resent the loss of their bodily autonomy. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 9, 2024 23:45:03 GMT
stealing historyJoe Biden @joebiden
Donald Trump is trying to steal history the same way he tried to steal the election. But we saw the truth with our own eyes.
Trump’s mob on January 6 wasn’t a peaceful protest—it was a violent assault on our democracy.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 9, 2024 23:48:11 GMT
Sometimes Republicans are their own worst enemy. On access to medical care, I don't think this old white guy could be more insulting. This situation is. direct result of the Supreme Court undoing Roe and Republican states passing extreme abortion bans. getting a bus ticket
Hear that pregnant ladies? Having to “get a bus ticket” to another state to see a gynecologist “isn’t the worst thing in the world” if you’re a white guy yammering on Fox.
I enjoy that argument about as much as I enjoy people who tell women in red states to "just move" if they resent the loss of their bodily autonomy. Initially, I thought he was saying women could just take a bus if they need an abortion. That's bad enough. But, it's so much worse. Any pregnant woman needing basic medical care can just take a bus. The comments on that thread are just awful. I had to stop reading after a few. Men that agree with the guy on Fox and said awful, ignorant, misogynistic things like women should stop using abortion as birth control, they should keep their legs closed etc. |
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Post by Merge on Apr 9, 2024 23:51:00 GMT
I enjoy that argument about as much as I enjoy people who tell women in red states to "just move" if they resent the loss of their bodily autonomy. Initially, I thought he was saying women could just take a bus if they need an abortion. That's bad enough. But, it's so much worse. Any pregnant woman needing basic medical care can just take a bus. Because almost all the gynecologists are leaving red states as fast as they can go? That tracks. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 2:07:30 GMT
political games@insidewithpsaki @jrpsaki: “Let’s call this what it is. Your healthcare and that of your daughter, your granddaughter, your sister, your wife… It’s all political games for Trump. And last time he had the chance, he didn’t protect those rights. He paved the way for having them taken away.”
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 2:10:22 GMT
This sums up the white male Republicans these days control over women's bodiesLindsey Graham and Donald Trump are fighting because they can’t agree on how much control white men like them should have over women’s bodies.Some of the comments like this one are disgusting. Maybe if you don't have a uterus, sit down and shut up. Maybe we should teach our girls to have control of their own body and not let it be penetrated until it desires a child. Teaching women how to safely and effectively use guns could help? |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 2:20:50 GMT
She's right. Conservatives keep saying - let the states decide. Arizona today turned the clock back to 1864. turned the clock backEvery day that passes we see the disastrous consequences of the Dobbs decision. Republican politicians have — almost literally — turned the clock all the way back to 1864 for women.
In 2024, we should be expanding access to basic medical care, not curtailing it. |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Apr 10, 2024 12:50:19 GMT
Yesterday I saw a comment asking what voting for Biden in the next election would do to help ensure rights to abortion, since what is happening now is happening under Biden (as a result of what happened under Trump). My understanding is that a democrat led senate and house could still make abortion lefal nationwide, right? Just like the republicans threaten to make it illegal nationwide? I want to understand correctly in case this comes up in conversation.
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Post by Merge on Apr 10, 2024 15:13:33 GMT
Yesterday I saw a comment asking what voting for Biden in the next election would do to help ensure rights to abortion, since what is happening now is happening under Biden (as a result of what happened under Trump). My understanding is that a democrat led senate and house could still make abortion lefal nationwide, right? Just like the republicans threaten to make it illegal nationwide? I want to understand correctly in case this comes up in conversation. Yes, we would need Democrats in control of both houses of congress and the White House as well, preferably with a nice cushion in case we have a couple of people like Manchin and Sinema in there. And yes, it was Trump-appointed judges who overturned Roe despite it being established law for 50 years, and despite the fact that they all agreed in their confirmation hearing that Roe was settled law. |
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Post by morecowbell on Apr 10, 2024 15:51:15 GMT
That you dismiss Tony Bobulinski, a decorated officer in the Navy that served honorably, but invoke a man covicted of fraud and making false statements as your "proof", says. It. All. You’re hilarious. On whose behalf was Parnas making the false statements? The ones he went to prison for. Bobulinski never was able to present any evidence for his claims. He’s lying on Trump’s behalf, too. If you think a former military officer isn’t capable of lying, I assume you also believe everything that Gen. Mattis has to say about Trump’s danger to this country. Right? Right? ETA: Bobulinski’s business record is hardly squeaky clean and he has strong ties to the Trump campaign. Trying to paint him as some upright whistleblower who came forward with Trump’s lawyers just days before the 2020 election is ridiculous. newrepublic.com/article/178960/republican-witness-hunter-biden-impeachment-tony-bobulinski-pastOh, FFS
The laptop was real: DOJ confirms in new court filing it indeed belonged to Hunter BidenFeb. 7, 2020 email from Hunter Biden’s lawyer Kevin Morris, which detailed risk "personally and politically" if his tax returns weren’t completed." "We now know that email came less than two months after the FBI seized a laptop from the computer repair shop in mid-December 2019, which was ten months before a story was published in the New York Post about its contents," IT WAS NEVER RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION. Your news sources and your Democrats lied to you then, and they're lying to you now. But keep on pretending it was, if that makes you happy.  |
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Post by Merge on Apr 10, 2024 16:43:54 GMT
You’re hilarious. On whose behalf was Parnas making the false statements? The ones he went to prison for. Bobulinski never was able to present any evidence for his claims. He’s lying on Trump’s behalf, too. If you think a former military officer isn’t capable of lying, I assume you also believe everything that Gen. Mattis has to say about Trump’s danger to this country. Right? Right? ETA: Bobulinski’s business record is hardly squeaky clean and he has strong ties to the Trump campaign. Trying to paint him as some upright whistleblower who came forward with Trump’s lawyers just days before the 2020 election is ridiculous. newrepublic.com/article/178960/republican-witness-hunter-biden-impeachment-tony-bobulinski-pastOh, FFS
The laptop was real: DOJ confirms in new court filing it indeed belonged to Hunter BidenFeb. 7, 2020 email from Hunter Biden’s lawyer Kevin Morris, which detailed risk "personally and politically" if his tax returns weren’t completed." "We now know that email came less than two months after the FBI seized a laptop from the computer repair shop in mid-December 2019, which was ten months before a story was published in the New York Post about its contents," IT WAS NEVER RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION. Your news sources and your Democrats lied to you then, and they're lying to you now. But keep on pretending it was, if that makes you happy. You ... didn't actually reply to anything I said. I didn’t bring up the laptop in that post. Are you glitching? |
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Post by morecowbell on Apr 10, 2024 17:14:21 GMT
Nobody said he did. You were the one comparing Trump and biden's days yesterday. Sorry if you're bent out of shape at the results of your own comparison. Since this is important to you. Trump just about doubled that just days later. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 21:55:20 GMT
Since this is important to you. Trump just about doubled that just days later. Trump claimed he doubled what Biden received in donations, but we won't know until we see the FEC filings. Trump can claim whatever he wants, who knows what he actually received? His campaign claimed they received that much in pledges, not all of it was actual donations. Regardless, Trump is still behind in raising money and his campaign is hemorrhaging money to pay his legal bills. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/trump-fundraising-dinner/The Trump campaign and RNC said this week that they raised more than $65.6 million in March and ended the month with about $93 million on hand, a dramatic improvement over their February results.
But Trump’s fundraising machine remains far behind Biden’s, which had an earlier start in fundraising from wealthy donors through shared accounts with national and state parties. Biden brought in more than $90 million in March. The broader Biden effort ended the month with $192 million in cash on hand, more than double what Trump controlled. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 22:33:31 GMT
courtMeidasTouch. @meidastouch
JUST IN: Trump’s 10th+ attempt to delay his trial has failed. For the first time in his life he will be in court every day, all day, in a criminal jury trial on Monday.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 22:36:06 GMT
women's rightsJoe Biden @joebiden
No, Donald—it’s about women’s rights.
reply to
Biden-Harris HQ @bidenhq
Trump claims abortion is “about states’ rights”
high stakes
Joe Biden @joebiden
The stakes could not be higher for women across America.
In the face of relentless attacks on reproductive freedom by Republican elected officials, Vice President Harris and I will continue to fight to ensure women can get the health care they need.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 22:40:39 GMT
down 50%Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen
Trump Media continues its downward descent, down over 10% today alone, and now having lost more than 50% of its value since the DJT ticker went public.
If you listened to Trump and bought in — surprise! — you got scammed.
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Post by lucyg on Apr 10, 2024 22:55:18 GMT
Since this is important to you. Trump just about doubled that just days later. He sure did.* By promising a bunch of billionaires he’d lower their taxes AGAIN. That’s totally the guy I want running my country. 🙄 *At least, he claims he did. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 22:57:12 GMT
Yesterday I saw a comment asking what voting for Biden in the next election would do to help ensure rights to abortion, since what is happening now is happening under Biden (as a result of what happened under Trump). My understanding is that a democrat led senate and house could still make abortion lefal nationwide, right? Just like the republicans threaten to make it illegal nationwide? I want to understand correctly in case this comes up in conversation. Yes, we would need Democrats in control of both houses of congress and the White House as well, preferably with a nice cushion in case we have a couple of people like Manchin and Sinema in there. And yes, it was Trump-appointed judges who overturned Roe despite it being established law for 50 years, and despite the fact that they all agreed in their confirmation hearing that Roe was settled law. On the flip side, it's important to point out that a Republican in the White House and Republican controlled Congress will try to pass nationwide abortion bans. Project 2025 which is the conservative plan for the next Republican President also details plans to take away FDA approval for abortion medications and plans to enforce an old law, the Comstock Act, to make it illegal to send abortion drugs through the mail. If they were able to do this, Republicans could effectively ban abortion nationwide without passing a law. www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243802678/abortion-comstock-act |
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Post by morecowbell on Apr 10, 2024 23:07:05 GMT
Since this is important to you. Trump just about doubled that just days later. He sure did.* By promising a bunch of billionaires he’d lower their taxes AGAIN. That’s totally the guy I want running my country. 🙄 *At least, he claims he did. Where's your proof of Trump saying this? |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 23:10:18 GMT
Really passionate speech on arming teachers. Republicans of course passed the bill anyway. no to guns in schoolsThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler
@senatorlamar: “Teachers don’t even want this. This bill is dangerous... look at that gallery. Those mothers are asking you not to do this.”
With a baby in her arms. Powerful. But every Senate Republican voted yes anyway, as troopers dragged out the moms above. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 23:11:36 GMT
It's not a secret. Trump announced plans to extend the 2017 tax cuts www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/politics/trump-2017-tax-cuts-rich/index.htmlTrump tells wealthy donors he wants to extend his 2017 tax cuts. Here’s why they’d benefit the most At the dinner, hosted by billionaire investor John Paulson, Trump told the crowd that one of his core issues for a second term would be extending the sweeping tax cuts that congressional Republicans approved in 2017. While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced taxes for most Americans, the rich benefited far more than others.www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-tells-billionaires-ll-keep-taxes-low-50-million-fundraising-gala-rcna146748Trump tells billionaires he'll keep their taxes low at $50 million fundraising gala WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of extending his signature tax cuts to some of the nation’s wealthiest political donors, according to a readout of his private remarks Saturday night provided by a Trump campaign official.
“Trump spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key issues including unleashing energy production, securing our southern border, reducing inflation, extending the Trump Tax Cuts, eliminating Joe Biden’s insane [electric vehicle] mandate, protecting Israel, and avoiding global war,” the campaign official said of a roughly 45-minute speech to donors in Palm Beach, Florida. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 23:20:18 GMT
Trump's tax cuts are due to expire in 2025 and billionaires want a Republican in the White House and Republicans in charge of Congress to extend them. www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2024-04-06/these-billionaires-abandoned-trump-after-jan-6-taxes-are-bringing-them-back-in-line-politicsThese billionaires abandoned Trump after Jan. 6. Taxes are bringing them back in line “At the end of 2025, on Dec. 31, all of the individual tax provisions of the 2017 tax bill will expire,” said Howard Gleckman of Washington’s Tax Policy Center. That includes some popular provisions such as the higher standard deduction and lower tax rates for average taxpayers.
The 2017 tax bill reduced taxes so much at the upper end that it was easy for Democrats to portray the bill as a tax cut for the rich, even though it did reduce rates for most taxpayers.
But allowing it to expire “would be cast as a huge tax increase for most American households,” Gleckman said.
Congress will have a limited set of choices:
Allow all the popular tax breaks to expire and risk the wrath of voters.
Extend them and cause the federal deficit to balloon by about $3.5 trillion over the following decade. (Both parties have repeatedly allowed huge deficit expansions, but interest rates and near-record debt have changed the calculus.)
Find ways to offset the cost while preserving tax breaks for average Americans.
Option three is the scenario many ultra-wealthy Americans appear to be worried about. |
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 10, 2024 23:25:39 GMT
In case there's any confusion on who benefitted the most from the 2017 tax cuts. www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliverA s this debate unfolds, policymakers and the public should understand that the 2017 Trump tax law:
Was skewed to the rich. Households with incomes in the top 1 percent will receive an average tax cut of more than $60,000 in 2025, compared to an average tax cut of less than $500 for households in the bottom 60 percent, according to the Tax Policy Center (TPC).[1] As a share of after-tax income, tax cuts at the top — for both households in the top 1 percent and the top 5 percent — are more than triple the total value of the tax cuts received for people with incomes in the bottom 60 percent.[2]
Was expensive and eroded the U.S. revenue base. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in 2018 that the 2017 law would cost $1.9 trillion over ten years,[3] and recent estimates show that making the law’s temporary individual income and estate tax cuts permanent would cost another roughly $350 billion a year beginning in 2027.[4] Together with the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts enacted under President Bush (most of which were made permanent in 2012), the law has severely eroded our country’s revenue base. Revenue as a share of GDP has fallen from about 19.5 percent in the years immediately preceding the Bush tax cuts to just 16.3 percent in the years immediately following the Trump tax cuts, with revenues expected to rise to an annual average of 16.9 percent of GDP in 2018-2026 (excluding pandemic years), according to CBO. T. This is simply not enough revenue given the nation’s investment needs and our commitments to Social Security and health coverage.
Failed to deliver promised economic benefits. Trump Administration officials claimed their centerpiece corporate tax rate cut would “very conservatively” lead to a $4,000 boost in household income.[5] New research shows that workers who earned less than about $114,000 on average in 2016 saw “no change in earnings” from the corporate tax rate cut, while top executive salaries increased sharply.[6] Similarly, rigorous research concluded that the tax law’s 20 percent pass-through deduction, which was skewed in favor of wealthy business owners, has largely failed to trickle down to workers in those companies who aren’t owners.[7] Like the Bush tax cuts before it,[8] the 2017 Trump tax cut was a trickle-down failure.www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/politics/trump-corporate-tax-cut.htmlTrump’s Tax Cut Fueled Investment but Did Not Pay for Itself, Study Finds
The most detailed research yet on corporate response to the 2017 Republican tax law shows modest gains for workers and high cost to the federal debt.
The corporate tax cuts that President Donald J. Trump signed into law in 2017 have boosted investment in the U.S. economy and delivered a modest pay bump for workers, according to the most rigorous and detailed study yet of the law’s effects.
Those benefits are less than Republicans promised, though, and they have come at a high cost to the federal budget. The corporate tax cuts came nowhere close to paying for themselves, as conservatives insisted they would. Instead, they are adding more than $100 billion a year to America’s $34 trillion-and-growing national debt, according to the quartet of researchers from Princeton University, the University of Chicago, Harvard University and the Treasury Department.
The researchers found the cuts delivered wage gains that were “an order of magnitude below” what Trump officials predicted: about $750 per worker per year on average over the long run, compared to promises of $4,000 to $9,000 per worker. |
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Post by morecowbell on Apr 10, 2024 23:26:27 GMT
It's not a secret. Trump announced plans to extend the 2017 tax cuts www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/politics/trump-2017-tax-cuts-rich/index.htmlTrump tells wealthy donors he wants to extend his 2017 tax cuts. Here’s why they’d benefit the most At the dinner, hosted by billionaire investor John Paulson, Trump told the crowd that one of his core issues for a second term would be extending the sweeping tax cuts that congressional Republicans approved in 2017. While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced taxes for most Americans, the rich benefited far more than others.www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-tells-billionaires-ll-keep-taxes-low-50-million-fundraising-gala-rcna146748Trump tells billionaires he'll keep their taxes low at $50 million fundraising gala WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of extending his signature tax cuts to some of the nation’s wealthiest political donors, according to a readout of his private remarks Saturday night provided by a Trump campaign official.
“Trump spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key issues including unleashing energy production, securing our southern border, reducing inflation, extending the Trump Tax Cuts, eliminating Joe Biden’s insane [electric vehicle] mandate, protecting Israel, and avoiding global war,” the campaign official said of a roughly 45-minute speech to donors in Palm Beach, Florida.Trump’s 2017 tax cut reduced income tax rates for the vast majority of Americans, including top earners and most lower-income workers. |
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Post by jayfab on Apr 10, 2024 23:43:18 GMT
It's not a secret. Trump announced plans to extend the 2017 tax cuts www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/politics/trump-2017-tax-cuts-rich/index.htmlTrump tells wealthy donors he wants to extend his 2017 tax cuts. Here’s why they’d benefit the most At the dinner, hosted by billionaire investor John Paulson, Trump told the crowd that one of his core issues for a second term would be extending the sweeping tax cuts that congressional Republicans approved in 2017. While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced taxes for most Americans, the rich benefited far more than others.www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-tells-billionaires-ll-keep-taxes-low-50-million-fundraising-gala-rcna146748Trump tells billionaires he'll keep their taxes low at $50 million fundraising gala WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of extending his signature tax cuts to some of the nation’s wealthiest political donors, according to a readout of his private remarks Saturday night provided by a Trump campaign official.
“Trump spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key issues including unleashing energy production, securing our southern border, reducing inflation, extending the Trump Tax Cuts, eliminating Joe Biden’s insane [electric vehicle] mandate, protecting Israel, and avoiding global war,” the campaign official said of a roughly 45-minute speech to donors in Palm Beach, Florida.Trump’s 2017 tax cut reduced income tax rates for the vast majority of Americans, including top earners and most lower-income workers. Bwahhaahha sure they did. |
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 10, 2024 23:46:47 GMT
It's not a secret. Trump announced plans to extend the 2017 tax cuts www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/politics/trump-2017-tax-cuts-rich/index.htmlTrump tells wealthy donors he wants to extend his 2017 tax cuts. Here’s why they’d benefit the most At the dinner, hosted by billionaire investor John Paulson, Trump told the crowd that one of his core issues for a second term would be extending the sweeping tax cuts that congressional Republicans approved in 2017. While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced taxes for most Americans, the rich benefited far more than others.www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-tells-billionaires-ll-keep-taxes-low-50-million-fundraising-gala-rcna146748Trump tells billionaires he'll keep their taxes low at $50 million fundraising gala WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of extending his signature tax cuts to some of the nation’s wealthiest political donors, according to a readout of his private remarks Saturday night provided by a Trump campaign official.
“Trump spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key issues including unleashing energy production, securing our southern border, reducing inflation, extending the Trump Tax Cuts, eliminating Joe Biden’s insane [electric vehicle] mandate, protecting Israel, and avoiding global war,” the campaign official said of a roughly 45-minute speech to donors in Palm Beach, Florida.Trump’s 2017 tax cut reduced income tax rates for the vast majority of Americans, including top earners and most lower-income workers. The Washington Post - January 30… Fact Check: “Massive tax cuts’ to the middle class”“Our massive tax cuts provide tremendous relief for the middle class and small businesses.” –Trump Fact Check | Trump is spinning the effects of his tax plan. Most of the benefits in the tax bill flow to corporations and the wealthy, according to numerous independent analysts.More than three-quarters of the $1.1 trillion in individual tax cuts will go to people who earn more than $200,000 a year in taxable income, who constitute only about five percent of all taxpayers, according to a report by Moody’s Investors Service that warned the tax plan will have negative consequences for the fiscal health of federal and local governments. Many of the tax cuts for individuals expires in 2025 –unless renewed by Congress – while the corporation tax cuts do not expire. The standard deduction was increased, but personal and dependent exemptions were eliminated, muting the impact of the increase.”
Head,ines about the trump tax cuts.
March 2024 - Center on Budget Policy Priorties…
”The 2017 Trump Tax Law Was Skewed to the Rich, Expensive, and Failed to Deliver on Its Promises” |
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