Timothy Birdnow

It's hard to appreciate how stupid the Republicans truly are.

REPUBLICAN SENATORS PLAN TO SCALE BACK TRUMP TAX CUTS.

The GOP, the party of tax cuts, wants to eliminate Trump's proposed elimination of taxes on tips, on overtime, and on the elderly.

If we learned nothing else from Ronald Reagan - or Bill Clinton, or Geoerge W. Bush, or Donald Trump - we should at least have learned that tax cuts spur economic growth and lead to a greater return to the treasury than high tax RATES. If high tax rates worked than a 100% tax would lead to an unparalleled boom. It doesn't; it leads to economic stagnation.

If these Republicans are so worried about the deficit why aren't they talking about a bigger recission bill?

That would cut the deficit, not squeezing social security recipients and below minimum wage workers.

This will bite the GOP in the posterior. If they ruin this they will lose those seniors and bartenders and waitresses many in the coalition that put Trump in power. This could cost them Congress, or a big chunk of it anyway.

By it's very definition taxes are immoral. They are a form of theft, stealing money from one individual and giving it to another. Of course politicians all love to tax and then "return" it; it grants them power. Anybody who doesn't play ball will be taxed and will wither.

Lyndon Johnson understood this. He actually did a tax cut to get churches of of politics; you either stayed out or were taxed into oblivion.It was a scheme that worked beautifully; most churches stopped any and all political activity lest they lose the tax exemption. It were these churches who had stopped his Great Society socialism scheme until he made them an offer they couldn't refuse.

So the best policy is to limit taxes. I would add if you refuse to pay taxes you will be punished with fines, and if you refuse to pay fines you will be arrested, and if you refuse to be arrested well....

The state holds the power of the sword. And will use it if you tell them to just leave you alone.

So any tax cut is a good tax cut by and large. Taxes are theft by another name. That's why mafiosa call their shakedowns "taxes".

Republicans used to understand that.

I wonder if these Republicans aren't trying to kill this for this very reason. They have always hated Trump and MAGA, at least the country club/RINO wing. If Trump succeeds then they are going to play second fiddle to the benighted yahoos whom they disdain. They have always thought us rubes and hillbillies in need of their superior guidance.

So wrecking the Trump agenda would serve THEIR interests,but not ours, and not the President's.

If not they are the stupidest people alive. I don't believe that.

Now Mike Johnson got HIS caucus in line, much to his credit (we all know how little I respect Johnson). But here we have Senators like Rand Paul who are ready to blow everything up for a tax INCREASE! It's truly astonishing.

In yet more proof the GOP is mentally incompetent and should be sharing a psyc ward with Joe Biden, Republican Mark Amodie plans to block any cuts to PBS/NPR. After decades of lying and bashing the GOP we have this idiot standing in the way of finally ending their tax funding. Pathetic.

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