Out Of Tricks and Out Of His Mind, Trump Recycles Middle Class Tax Cut Promise If He Wins Reelection

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/24/trump-middle-class-tax-cut.html

Saturday, August 24, 2019 by Jason Easley
Out Of Tricks and Out Of His Mind, Trump Recycles Middle Class Tax Cut Promise If He Wins Reelection


Trump is out of tricks as he has returned to promising a tax cut for the middle class, but only if he wins the 2020 election.

Trump tweeted:

Donald J. Trump
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“Face It, You Probably Got A Tax Cut!” This was a New York Times headline, and it is very true. If Republicans take back the House, and keep the Senate and Presidency, one of our first acts will be to approve a major middle income Tax Cut! Democrats only want to raise your taxes!
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Trump made the same promise of a tax cut for the middle class if Republicans kept the House and Senate in 2018. It didn’t work then for the same reason that it is not going to work now. Trump has no intention of cutting taxes for the middle class.

He doesn’t need a Republican House and Senate to pass a middle-class tax cut. House Democrats would be thrilled to cut taxes for the middle class with no strings attacks. Republicans in the Senate have never met a tax cut that they wouldn’t vote for, so it would be slam dunk legislative pass.

It won’t happen because Trump thinks that offering imaginary tax cuts to voters only if they vote for him is smart politics.

The president’s tweet was also an admission that the first tax cut that Republicans passed was not a middle-class tax cut as they falsely claimed, nor was it intended to be.

Trump lied about the tax cut for the rich, so there is no reason to believe that he is telling the truth about cutting taxes for the middle class.

President Trump is out of tricks so he is recycling his old promises in the hope of fooling voters in 2020.

[Hugin]

1. I probably spent my entire tax cut...

by opening this thread.

[brewens]

2. Can't happen unless the rich get a bigger break, which is really no tax cut at all.

It's all relative and what we need is to narrow the income/wealth gap. It doesn't help us much to just gain a little on the people at the bottom

[FakeNoose]

5. Thanks to Reagan we in the middle class are already paying their taxes for them

That's why they're getting richer all the time, and we can barely rub two nickles together.

[greymattermom]

3. So the House should just pass a middle class tax cut

and send the bill to Moscow Mitch. It's easy to claim that Trump wanted it.

[greymattermom]

4. It could be a bracket adjustment

with a break on Social Security taxes for seniors. Maybe add a higher bracket at 500K/year.

[global1]

6. What's The Old Saying?.....

Fool me once........

[CanonRay]

7. He has zero credibility this time around

except with his cult members.

[Newest Reality]

8. You said it.

It is interesting how he seems to expect that, despite his massive failures, broken "promises" and economic mayhem and destruction, that any "positive" specters he can conjure up will be useful at this point...except for his worshipers, as you said.

I mean, it is not hard at all at this point to use contrast as strategy on his part because pardoning a house fly at the White House would seem like an improvement.

[Firestorm49]

9. Great! He can pay us with the Social Security / Medicare funds that he's planning on stealing.