McConnell: 'Impossible' to promise every member of middle class gets a tax cut

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 12/03/17 10:49 AM EST

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that “it’s impossible” to promise that the GOP's tax overhaul will lower the taxes of every person in the middle class.

“Well, it’s impossible to do that,” McConnell told ABC’s “This Week."

“You can’t craft any bill that would guarantee no one was in a special category that might get a tax increase,” the majority leader added. McConnell’s interview comes after the Senate early Saturday passed its tax overhaul bill, which includes the repeal of ObamaCare’s individual mandate.

“Every segment of tax payers, every category of tax payers, on average, gets significant relief,” McConnell said of the bill on Sunday.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/362991-mcconnell-impossible-to-promise-every-member-of-middle-class-gets-a-tax-cut

[Scalded Nun]

1. But anyone in the top 2%? That is guaranteed.

[Thor_MN]

2. Of course, that was it's entire purpose.

[underpants]

3. Uh Obama did with the A. R. R. A.

Well at least 97% of Americans did.

[unblock]

4. even shrub managed to pretty much do that.

if the main focus is just cutting rates across the board, everyone gets a cut, even if the cuts are heavily tilted in favor of the rich.

(i don't remember all the details of shrub's cut, i'm sure there were a few smaller changes that made some people pay more, but it wasn't anything close to the scale of people who will pay more under this latest republican tax scam.)


it's when you start jumbling things around that you create winners and losers, and that's exactly the point -- republicans were so eager to make big winners out of the rich that they had to create losers out of many of the rest of us.

the reason they're going after the state and local income tax deduction is that this mostly affects people in blue states that they're losing anyway, so they won't pay much of a political price for this (though it might affect donations from affected republicans in those states)

[yurbud]

5. they didn't even try this time.

[unblock]

11. Indeed, they specifically tried not to

I’m sure punishing people in blue states was a big selling point.

[yurbud]

13. I think the rich know they are running out of time. The more they smash and grab...

the longer it will take for us to claw it back and maybe the bigger chunk they end up getting to keep.

At least that's what they hope.

[Marthe48]

6. CSMFPOS

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[NastyRiffraff]

7. So, now the middle class is a "special category"?

Got it.

[Nitram]

8. Yeah, so its a crap shoot. A lottery. support Trump and the Republicans and they

might toss you a bone if there's any left over after the ruling class eat their fill.

[lastlib]

9. The repugs just defined "middle class" as billionaires and corporations....

So now, --VOILA!-- every "middle class" American gets a tax cut! Simple!

We have GOT to throw these FUCKERS OUT!!

[Doreen]

10. To put it simply: 98% of you are fucked.

[theaocp]

12. CODE: "on average"

Do I need to link to the Huckleberry take on that? McConnell can't expire soon enough. He's using my oxygen.

[red dog 1]

14. McConnell today on Face the Nation: ".We followed the regular order. There were multiple hearings..

...The Democrats were there...Days of hearings...Days of amendments...The Democrats offered amendments in committee ad nauseam......The process on the floor, the reconciliation process, is regular order...That's how they passed Obamacare......It's - it's - we didn't do anything that you could call a foul on process."

JOHN DICKERSON:
"well, they - "

McCONNELL:
"Well, they didn't -- didn't -- well, let me just say they didn't -- they didn't like the fact that we repealed the unpopular individual mandate from Obamacare, but yet they didn't offer a single amendment to take it out, and they had the opportunity to do it."

DICKERSON:
"Well, they had twenty-five days of debate on Obamacare...And you said the process at the time was arrogant and that they were pushing an unpopular bill through...This bill is unpopular.
Why isn't it the same thing?"

McCONNELL:
"Well, we'll see how unpopular it is when people start noticing they're paying less in taxes, the economy's growing, there are more jobs and opportunity..."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-december-3-2017-transcript/

[mr_lebowski]

17. I just have to ask ... is that TRUE that no Dems tried to offer a 'single amendment' to keep ...

The Mandate?

This is the first I've heard this claim.

If so, that's a pretty damn egregious failure on the part of Democrats, to not even TRY ... even though it'd have almost surely have been naught but symbolic. I find it a little bit hard to believe ... esp. coming from McTurtle, but ... well in the end, not much surprises me these days.

Let's just say that'd be disappointing if true ... because everyone w/one half a brain knows that w/o the mandate, the whole scheme falls apart, numbers-wise.

Basically it'd mean everyone would just wait til they're very sick/need surgery/cancer treatment/etc ... THEN enroll because they cannot be turned down to the pre-existing condition rules ... this mandate exists at the behest of the insurers to a large degree, it was pretty much the 'grand bargain'.

Without that, they will have 'cause' to argue that things must go back to how they were ... which, of course, is 'the point' I suppose.

The rich live, the poor die. As it was 'meant to be' ...

[Solly Mack]

15. He's so full of shit you can see the corn coming out of his mouth.

[BHDem53]

16. Turtle logic.