99% of the 1% and 1% of the 99% pay attention to corporate taxes.
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I like the slogan but is this true? A huge chunk of the middle and lower class views corporate taxes as part of the culture war. I suppose itās correct that they donāt āpay attentionā to corporate taxes, like they couldnāt tell you want the current tax rates are, but lots of people want Bad Corporations to be punished with higher taxes and lots of other people want Job Creators rewarded with corporate tax cuts.
The effective tax rate on many of these giant profitable corporations is negative. Whatever the ostensible rate is, they arenāt going to pay anyway. And the people they lobby and sponsor arenāt going to change that. If Bernie or someone like him tried, theyād never get it passed.
How the POTUS uses actual executive authority is more important.
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Right, thatās what Iām saying as well. @Riverman 's post you were responding to was criticizing Biden for walking back his original corporate tax proposal, which I think we are all agreeing was totally inadequate in the first instance. Thatās why Iām saying that Biden wasnāt even really going after corporations in the first place, so itās particularly weak of him to back off from even that starting point. I think weāre all on the same page.
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RCP has his lowest approval Mid August 2017, which would be calling people end of July/ early August . The McCain thumbs down was on July 27. The low approval you quote was right in the middle of the government shutdown, which I think was far more responsible for any drop.
The tax cut was actually pretty popularā¦by Trump standards. It was possibly the least popular tax cut ever but only 50% disapproved. Less hated than Trump himself, meanwhile the repeal
An analysis of national polls by MIT political scientist Christopher Warshaw and Stanford political economist David Broockman showed that the AHCA āis the most unpopular piece of major legislation Congress has considered in decadesā
Iām getting close to thinking the progressives in the house need to follow through on this.
https://twitter.com/jamaalbowmanny/status/1400581200297791490?s=21
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I just got this new phone. Now I have to smash it. Not clicking the link.
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Isnāt all the compromise talk just theatre for manchin and sinemasās benefit? He could offer to change the bill to anything and would get zero republican votes.
He just has to make it look like he tried for those two?
Who knows with these dumb fucks.
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Those two could just as easily claim they didnāt try hard enough to change GOP minds. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.
Manchin, anyway. Iām almost positive Sinema is trolling at this point.
It is very hard to retain a shred of optimism watching this shit play out.
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In a lot of ways this bill is his ultimate test if he is the 50 year experience political guru or some old moron stuck in 1960.
If he ends up passing a $2T bill via reconciliation we will know itās the former.
Iām betting slightly on the latter at this point.
Either this is a all play acting because they know even now all Republicans are going to vote no and they are going to pass something thatās 75 percent of what was originally proposed or thereās about 19 months left of Dem Senate and House control in the working lives of most/all posters on this board.
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This was posted as a top reply to that tweet but Iāll just drop it here too. Can never have too much of the Bunk IMO.
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The Dems, post-LBJ, have literally never successfully pulled off any maneuver requiring any level of strategic behavior. Not once in my lifetime. All signs point to this being exactly what it appears.
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Umm, what about that time they all hid in that junior senators office with Santos making all the Republicans think they had went home for the holidays only to stroll out at the last minute just in time to vote and pass the bill?!?
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They absolutely should.
Let Republicans vote for the bill that was compromised down to make Republicans happy.
When have the Dems ever exhibited this level of sophistication around negotiating and political maneuvering? They say they want R buy in because they want R buy in, they think it makes them look mature and Responsible.
https://mobile.twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1400478801616949248
I donāt know Jeff, I truly donāt know. One that has real value some tell me. But I canāt see it.
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