Wonkers might be wondering what is happening with the tax bill and the answer is Wonkette does not know and Congress does not know and maybe they have the votes in the Senate but maybe they don't because Marco Rubio is like "OMG CHILD TAX CREDIT" and if he doesn't have a backbone THIS time, he will never get to be our dashing young president, and he MUST know that right, he's not actually stupid, just a little bit of a HUGE PUSS, and he has been caterwauling ALL WEEK about how they would not "raise" the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 22 percent to let single mothers on minimum wage get a child tax credit, but they WOULD "raise" the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 22 percent to give millionaire couples a tax cut from 39 percent to 37 percent, but Marco Rubio is not good at keeping his spine in place it just keeps exploding out his back and running away (it's very messy), and Mike Lee is like "I DUNNO!" and Rand Paul is being a twat like he always is and what's Susan Collins doing, since she didn't get literally any of the things she demanded for her yes vote and does not get her turn to be the Zaphod Beeblebrox Most Important Person in the Universe like her old buddy Olympia Snowe was that time when we were all waiting on Scott Brown to fuck the ACA, is she going to be all fuck YOU and YOU and YOU you're cool, we don't know, and John McCain is in the hospital so maybe he won't be available, but maybe he will, same for poor old Thad Cochran in Mississippi, and Bob Corker WAS a no, but is he really a no, when he has a net worth of ALL THE MONEY and would see his taxes go down by MILLIONS, and what about Jeff Flake of Arizona who keeps being accosted by dying people -- that's gotta leave a mark -- and Mike Pence REALLY doesn't want to go to Palestine right now so he is like "I am here to break all the ties" and Donald Trump is getting ready to talk again about how it was "so close," 48 to 4, because Republican math means you only count the Republicans just like Republican lawmaking means the Democrats don't get to read the bill meanwhile in the House they are like "FINISHED POOPING ON THE TAX SYSTEM, COME WIPE OUR BOTTOMS" and they are being so successful at it that Paul Ryan is whining that he wants to retire (just as soon as he's cut Grandma Millie's Social Security) because can you imagine how mad everyone will be at him after they lose 720 seats in the midterms (#math, like 180 percent of all House seats), but maybe they are still negotiating, Devin Nunes is all "I took a break from rushing to the White House to tell the White House the information I got from the White House so I could 'sign the final bill'" and everyone else is all what final bill YOU talking about, Traity, because LITERALLY NOBODY KNOWS WHAT'S IN IT, just like LITERALLY NOBODY KNEW WHAT WAS IN THE SENATE BILL (but they passed it anyway so they could have "a win") but Americans are smart enough, this time, to know when they're being shit on so Ivanka Trump doesn't have to pay inheritance taxes, but hey, Donald Trump says everything is going great, just like he says even his worst enemies on the Demon-cratic side say NO COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA, NO COLLUSION, everybody just agrees because it is so obvious, and that is what is happening with the tax bill, so far as we can tell.
I love how my congresswoman mouths the tired old premise that the growth in the economy will create more income and the additional tax revenue on that income will cover the 1.4 trillion in additional deficits. In other words the same old crap Reagan fed us. As before the money is really going to those already at the top - and they just got a tax cut!
I can’t say this is the most clear and concise take on the tax bill. I can definitely say it is the most accurate, because I can’t say this is the most clear and consice take on the tax bill.
Murkowski sold out early, Rubio & Corker flipped - Flake will, too - so I guess our only 'hope' is that McCain & Cochran take a few extra days of r&r and Collins gets the message that she's being played...again.
I just spent 14 hours transporting a sick relative to a hospital/medical facility and pushing him around in a wheelchair while carrying ALL of the work that I was supposed to do during the downtimes while bringing him ALL over the hospital for ALL of the appointments and ALL of the tests in a 10 hour period and now I'm finally home drinking ALL of the wine. So, it was a pleasure to see this period-less article by the lovely Rebecca. Much gratitude.
Here's the Trump tax cut in a nutshell. The rich get a Bentley, and you get a NAPA wiper blade, and they're going to come for your social security and medicare to pay for the tax cuts. This is the same flim-flam scheme as Reagans "trickle-down". The middle class got fucked then, and will get fucked again with this one. But as long as there's a football game on TV and beer in the 'frig, Americans won't give a shit.
it took marco 2 or 3 days to count the bag of money they gave him for his vote. he only has ten fingers and ten toes. every time he gets distracted, he forgets where he is and has to start all over again.
Everyone in my home state of Maine is raging at Susan Collins. Maine is one of the poorest states in the country with one of the smallest percentages of millionaires and the tax bill is going to hit its aging population especially hard.
Operative word: conscience.
As in we know who's got one and who's lacking.
They had credibility to begin with? Let alone responsibility?
True that!
Alabama wypipo don't consider a child diddling a firing offense, nor do lobbyist-hand-doodled-in-the-margins tax bills.
WE have to hang their failures around their necks. As in wypipo.
I love how my congresswoman mouths the tired old premise that the growth in the economy will create more income and the additional tax revenue on that income will cover the 1.4 trillion in additional deficits. In other words the same old crap Reagan fed us. As before the money is really going to those already at the top - and they just got a tax cut!
I can’t say this is the most clear and concise take on the tax bill. I can definitely say it is the most accurate, because I can’t say this is the most clear and consice take on the tax bill.
Murkowski sold out early, Rubio & Corker flipped - Flake will, too - so I guess our only 'hope' is that McCain & Cochran take a few extra days of r&r and Collins gets the message that she's being played...again.
I just spent 14 hours transporting a sick relative to a hospital/medical facility and pushing him around in a wheelchair while carrying ALL of the work that I was supposed to do during the downtimes while bringing him ALL over the hospital for ALL of the appointments and ALL of the tests in a 10 hour period and now I'm finally home drinking ALL of the wine. So, it was a pleasure to see this period-less article by the lovely Rebecca. Much gratitude.
Reads like a page from the Poor Tony saga in Infinite Jest. Upvoted!
I just hope the dems are smart and aggressive enough to use all the snippets and choice phrases in their campaigns. No more softball good guy crap.
Here's the Trump tax cut in a nutshell. The rich get a Bentley, and you get a NAPA wiper blade, and they're going to come for your social security and medicare to pay for the tax cuts. This is the same flim-flam scheme as Reagans "trickle-down". The middle class got fucked then, and will get fucked again with this one. But as long as there's a football game on TV and beer in the 'frig, Americans won't give a shit.
Please use paragraphs next time Rebecca.
it took marco 2 or 3 days to count the bag of money they gave him for his vote. he only has ten fingers and ten toes. every time he gets distracted, he forgets where he is and has to start all over again.
Murkowski sold out for drilling in the Alaskan wilderness reserve. Whatta moderate gal!
Everyone in my home state of Maine is raging at Susan Collins. Maine is one of the poorest states in the country with one of the smallest percentages of millionaires and the tax bill is going to hit its aging population especially hard.
Less softball and more baseball bat.