This is horrible. Horrific. Terrible. Abominable. Dreadful. Appalling. Gruesome. So says the Washington Post’s Excitable Catherine Rampell
Get ready. Republicans want to cut taxes again.
Just months ago, Republicans got away with a massive upward redistribution of wealth, raiding $1.5 trillion from the Treasury and sticking future generations with the bill.
Now, they’re going for more.
On Wednesday, President Trump touted his ginormous, sloppily drafted, deficit-financed tax cuts, written under cover of night without benefit of hearings or experts. The whole thing was so much fun, he said, that he hopes to do it all again.
This year.
“We’re actually going for a phase two which will help — in addition to middle class, it will help companies and it’s going to be something I think very special,†Trump said in Missouri. “Kevin Brady is working on it with me, Congress is working, the Senate’s working.â€
Brady (R-Tex.), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, confirmed another tax-cut bill was in the works.
“We think even more can be done,†he gushed on Fox Business News.
Yeah, Catherine isn’t excited about citizens keeping more of the money they earned, because, Democrats believe that your money is actually Government’s money to spend.
The problem for Republicans, of course, is that at this point, tax cuts are the only thing they stand for. As conservative commentator Robert Novak once put it, “God put the Republicans on Earth to cut taxes. If they don’t cut taxes, they have no overriding rationale for existence.â€
Well, I suppose that standing for making sure citizens keep more of the money they work hard for isn’t quite as great as making sure unborn babies can have metal objects stuck in their heads then be suctioned out of a womb by a vacuum, the number one sacrament of Democrats. Because abortion on demand is what Democrats are on Earth for.
Oh, and arguing against citizens having more of their own money to spend.
