This tax "reform" vote is the domestic equivalent of the Iraq War.

[thucythucy]

There were ample warnings about the disaster that will accrue due to this absurd measure, but Republicans (this time without ANY Democratic support) went ahead with it anyway. And like the Iraq invasion, what support there is for this (aside from the millionaires and billionaires expecting their usual windfall) is based on lies and dubious economic "intelligence" that even Republicans must know is just more trickle down BS.

It may take a few years, but the folly of this measure will eventually be impossible to miss: tremendous deficits (as with the war), economic dislocation (as with the war) and thousands of casualties, only this time the vast majority of them will be poor and middle class Americans.

This time there will be no opportunity for anyone to say "the Democrats did it too."

The coming meltdown will belong entirely to the KGOP.

It's up to all of us to make certain these cretins don't find any way to crawl out from under the political shit storm that's a-coming.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Many will be too busy trying to eat to vote.

[thucythucy]

2. Maybe not.

The Great Depression saw tremendous economic hardship, but enough voters turned out to elect FDR (four times, the first two by landslides) and flip both the House and the Senate. The political fallout was so severe the Republicans lost control of the House for most of six decades.

Hopefully the effects this time won't be nearly as severe--but together with changing demographics (aging white male Fox News viewers are dying out) it may have the same political impact. Not to mention, Herbert Hoover, as ineffective as he was, was not nearly as toxic as Donald Trump. Even so, encampments of homeless people came to be known as "Hoovervilles." I can imagine similar areas in coming years will come to be known as "Trump-towns."

The Republicans have sown the wind, and they're now flirting with reaping a political whirlwind.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Except that this time our administration is gassing their own people,

metaphorically speaking. Trump & the GOP are a fiscal Saddam Hussein.

[thucythucy]

4. And "weapons of mass destruction"

are "trickle down economics"--another right wing chimera that millions of people in this country are somehow duped into chasing.