The GOP strong-arming this tax scam bill through the Senate is the next stage in their coup

[Maven]

against our country.

Democratic Senators have been reporting on Twitter all day that they have been totally shut out of all talks on the bill, and any materials they've been able to review have come from lobbyists, not their so-called "colleagues".

They have just received a copy of the bill, which is 500 pages. It includes everything from a permanent cut to the corporate tax rate, a tax break for private jets, and repeal of the estate tax; to a repeal of the ACA's individual mandate; to language that defines "fetal personhood" and provisions that relax restrictions on Arctic drilling. Our Democratic Senators (and many Republicans) will have no chance to read it before the vote.

The GOP knows that the jig is almost up with the treason-weasel in the White House, so they are smashing and grabbing everything they can. This is a criminal act against the Constitution and our country. People will lose their livelihoods, their homes and their lives as a result.

[2naSalit]

1. +1

[SamKnause]

2. Yes it is.

I have been watching for hours.

[flamingdem]

3. From now on donors know they'll get their dough back

x100

So it's costing them nothing to control the country and gift themselves with the money earned by the less wealthy..

[Dustlawyer]

21. I wonder if this will be enough for us to focus on the root problem of the legal bribery

that encourages what I still believe is an illegal quid pro quo? Some Republicans have admitted they have to do this for their Donors, that is illegal!

We ned to fight for Publicly Funded Elections!!!

[rtracey]

4. Well

Well if you think that the middle class right wingers are going to be happy, i'd think again... remember they have seniors for parents too, they need healthcare too, they will not be as happy about paying more taxes as many think they will...

[Irish_Dem]

5. GOP: On the Russian mob payroll, sells out the US to Putin and now grabs as much $$$ as possible.

The GOP is not a political party, it is a crime syndicate.

[mopinko]

11. this

[BadgerMom]

14. +1

[workinclasszero]

15. Yes

[Maraya1969]

6. If they don't follow regular rules and go so far as deceit to get something passed is their any

remedy that can be applied late by the Democrats? They are reminding me of little dictators now.

[AmericanActivist]

7. Exactly, its a hostile takeover where Republicans act like

like mob bosses instead of delegates serving their constituents in a Representative Republic form of government in the United States of America.

[anneboleyn]

8. It will also kill graduate programs in this country by charging grad students for tuition wavers

Wavers that grad students receive by teaching courses in addition to writing a dissertation and of course publishing, researching, etc. They are going to charge grad students for the tuition wavers of $50,000 and more universities give graduate students as part of their fellowships. Keep in mind the graduate students never see this money.

This bill is beyond disgusting. It’s monstrous, and the republicans are going to feel the backlash when the last 30% or so supporting the Dotard realize all the things that are going to effect them. But yeah, we need private jet deductions!!

[mopinko]

12. sticks in my craw. maybe cuz i have a kid in grad school, but

i wonder if part of this isnt part of the war on immigrants. a lot of those grad students come here from other countries.

he didnt get into his top choices, stanford and u of chicago. he said- the chinese kids get all those seats. he graduated top of his class w almost straight a's.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Final Throes, GOP. Final Throes.

They're going down ugly.

[Irish_Dem]

20. I agree, I think this is going to get uglier before it is over. nt

[angstlessk]

10. pat toomy (r-PA)

says if we give corps a tax break they will throw away all those shovels and buy backhoes!!!

[SergeStorms]

19. Huh?

He actually SAID THAT?

[angstlessk]

22. No, it took him about 2 mins to say that,

He spoke about how much more efficient a backhoe was compared to a man with a shovel, and how much more the man on the backhoe makes than the man with the shovel, and as soon as we pass all these tax cuts, business will ruch out to purchase backhoes, and the added bonus is someone has to make those backhoes...

Executives at Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar are moving ahead with a restructuring that includes shifting jobs from a Joliet, Ill., factory to Monterrey, Mexico.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/companies-plow-ahead-with-moves-to-mexico-despite-trumps-pressure/ar-AAmJq9a?li=BBnb7Kz

[Roland99]

13. The end of American democracy. This is what one-party rule looks like

[BadgerMom]

16. No.

Trump will topple. The Republican overlords will fall, too. Resist.

[TNNurse]

17. I really miss living in the United States of America.

I have not moved but this is not America. This is a Republican dictatorship.

[SergeStorms]

18. It always has been....

this was maybe the ONLY chance they would ever have of fulfilling all of their dreams of massive giveaways to the very wealthy, to cut the corporate tax to the bone, to establish a foothold for overturning Roe v. Wade, to give themselves one more chance to gerrymander the hell out of the U.S, to despoil the Alaska Wildlife Refuge, to gut Medicare, Medicaid, and every other safety net program in the United States, and much, much more!

These are ALL of their wet dreams come true, and it will spell the death of the middle class forever, possibly of the United States - as we know it - as well. Apparently they don't care if they ever get elected to public office again, because that's basically what the price of this is going to be for them.

I can't believe it. I really can't believe that NOT ONE Republican has an ounce of integrity, honesty or compassion for their fellow man.