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Holiday Jen's avatar

brings back the trump tax cuts?

They never went anywhere though?

They rose /as according to their plan/ on the middle class. That was baked in to those "tax cuts"

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fuflans's avatar

god dammit. i don't fucking want to do my taxes.

sheesh.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Odd how upset Republicans get when this company engages in practices that every American social media platform engages in for the exact same reason: Making money.

What, oh what, could be the difference?

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Zyxomma's avatar

What a load. Ta, Stephen. We'll look for you on Substack.

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Sgt JMK's avatar

LaLota is my Congresstwit. He's an improvement on the loathsome Lee Zeldin only because I couldn't pick him out of a line-up... I suspect that his sole selling point for running in NY-01 was the SALT cap.

He's a GOPer through and through, though - he ran as a moderate "uniter" and promptly showed what a lie that was by licking Trumpian boots as often as he could.

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AboveTheGrayFog's avatar

For a guy named Good, Bob sure isn't living up to the name.

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Jim Parker's avatar

To say Mike Johnson's job is herding cats, is vastly understating the uselessness of his efforts in Congress.

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SethTriggs's avatar

The SALT cap issue was done specifically to punish "high-tax"/high-service 'blue' states. It was pure spite. Good luck getting this miscreant party to fix that.

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gene108's avatar

“ as people are already receiving their W2s and even W3s,”

You lost me here.

Why would an individual receive a W-3?

It reports a business’s W-2 payroll to the IRS.

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Holiday Jen's avatar

they own a small business?

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Tosca's avatar

"I wish Good could spend just one night as one of the millions of poor children who’ll go to bed hungry because of people like him".

You're very generous. I'd wish for the rest of his worthless life.

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Greg's avatar

"I wish Good could spend just one night as one of the millions of poor children who’ll go to bed hungry because of people like him. He deserves a scathing Rod Serling closing monologue"

He "deserves" worse than that. I put "deserves" in quotes because I don't really believe in deserve - it's a human concept that has no bearing on what ever really happens. Very few people in this world are getting what they deserve.

But if I'm calling the "deserves" - he deserves something awful.

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Buz 13's avatar

“ I wish Good could spend just one night as one of the millions of poor children who’ll go to bed hungry because of people like him. He deserves a scathing Rod Serling closing monologue.”

THIS ^^ is why you’ll be missed! Funny how good has a name that’s the complete opposite of what he is.

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a. diderot's avatar

I am going to miss you for this too, Stephen. You have always been so funny when writing about awful things. I look forward to seeing what you do next.

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Caepan's avatar

𝘙𝘦𝘱. 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: “𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘮 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵-𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘵𝘢𝘹 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘴.” 𝘖𝘩 𝘫𝘰𝘺. “𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴.”

Fuck Dan Meuser. When he was PA Secretary of Revenue under that T. Boone Pickens' employee Governor Tom Corbett, they bragged about cutting taxes to make PA a "business friendly" state. Then they couldn't figure out why in less than four years they ran up a massive deficit that they tried to blame on everyone else but themselves and their "tax cuts are for businesses, not for you plebes" policies.

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simpledinosaur's avatar

The Grand Old Party must be at its nadir if it can't even agree on something as basic as THAT.

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bluePNWcats's avatar

Yeah isn't that Republican 101 at liberty and prager university?

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PropellerVigo's avatar

SALT was basically rendered meaningless as a punishment to blue states, where solidly middle class people would benefit along with the wealthy.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Starve the poor. Feed the rich. The Republican mantra

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

You would think the rich wouldn't be so chewy after all that fattening up.

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