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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans Have Handed Democrats Their Message
December 19, 2017 at 11:44 am ESTBy Taegan Goddard
First Read: One of the common refrains after their defeat in 2016 has been: Whats the Democrats economic message? Well, this bill gives it to them on a silver platter.
Democrats, in 2018 and 2020, will likely campaign on putting the middle class before the wealthy and corporations (under this bill, the corporate tax cuts are permanent, while the ones for individuals are temporary). They will blame health care premium increases on the repeal of the individual mandate. And above all, they will say that Donald Trump doesnt deserve a tax break, which he gets under the legislation.
And it takes away the GOPs credibility on the federal debt: Well, this tax legislation has a price tag of about $1.5 trillion, and it isnt fully paid for (even when you factor in assumed economic growth under the most favorable of analyses).
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Republicans Have Handed Democrats Their Message (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2017
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Renew Deal
(81,876 posts)1. Democrats should run against republicans "Misery Agenda"
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)2. Democrats need to use this in the same way Republicans used Obamacare
To mobilize and energize their base. I don't know about the Senate, but the House has a very good chance of going blue in 2018.
librechik
(30,676 posts)3. OH GOD NO!!!
you know what they do to the messengers in this country.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)4. They need to be more than about the middle class, though.
It isn't enough.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)5. So will republicans.
"will likely campaign on putting the middle class before the wealthy and corporations "
It's a game of perception and there are many things currently working against perception mirroring reality.