Republicans fret over tax bill's unpopularity
Source: The Hill
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON AND NAOMI JAGODA - 12/11/17 06:00 AM EST
Republican lawmakers are concerned about how their tax bill is being viewed by the public and say they need to do a better job of selling it to middle-class and low-income voters.
A CBS News poll conducted last week found that 53 percent of people nationwide disapprove of the GOP tax bill and only 35 percent approve.
While support for the bill was strong among self-identified Republicans, according to the poll, 52 percent of independents and a whopping 84 percent of Democrats disapprove of the legislation.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Friday warned that the Republican Party cannot become identified with the country club-big business image, citing a famous speech President Reagan gave in 1977 using those same words.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/364054-republicans-fret-over-tax-bills-unpopularity
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,011 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)BY NICOLE GOODKIND ON 12/1/17 AT 6:00 PM
http://www.newsweek.com/tax-plan-social-security-medicare-welfare-republicans-rubio-729133
christx30
(6,241 posts)letting low income people know that they'll get a good tax break on their private jets. And all of those middle class people that own wineries? Ca-Ching!
Good luck GOP!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)The idea that what they need to do is take the time to write a better Bill never occurs to them. Or take more than two weeks to put together the most radical rewrite of the tax law since Ronald Reagan. No matter what they think, people aren't stupid (although they sometimes do vote against their own interests). The more time this Bill has time to sit in the daylight of public scrutiny, the more it stinks. And there's not enough lipstick in the world to dress up this pig.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)by the gop. with NO input from democratic lawmakers. Behind closed doors, just like their "leader" assaults women, and their hero Moore assaults kids. They know dmn well it is a disaster for regular working class citizens, that is why all the secrecy. I wonder if the Koch brothers and Addelson were in the room when it was being devised?
marble falls
(57,104 posts)monmouth4
(9,708 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)They need to do a better job of selling it? They need to get an injection of humanity. Sheesh
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)and win elections despite being unpopular.
CousinIT
(9,247 posts)That shit won't "sell" no matter how much glittery wrapping they put on it. The shit sandwich inside STILL. STINKS.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)lark
(23,105 posts)He says this, while at the same time saying w ehave to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, so he talks out of both sides of his mouth. He doesn't want to change the bill, doesn't want to give $ back to working class and poor, just wants to say it helps the miiddle class. So actual actions to hurt people don't matter, but lie lie lie about it to create false perceptions and fake news.
nwduke
(350 posts)Its by Neil Young and its called Piece of Crap especially when Ayn Rand, I mean, Paul Ryan talks about cutting Medicare and Social Security to offset deficits created by cutting taxes to the .001% and corporations! Vote these clowns out! Its imperative!
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)There's a lot needs to be taken out of that thing. It's a monstrous attack on almost all Americans.
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)that with their guy (with Putin's help) was installed in the WH, they had a blank check to do whatever their owners wanted them to do. Imagine if the dems, had re-written the tax code behind closed doors, without gop members input? They would have been all over Faux and all the Sunday gop shows, screaming bloody murder. How gullible do they think we are? We know what their agenda is, and we are pushing back.
They think "we" are incredibly gullible and stupid. In fact, they are counting on it. And by the fact that incumbents keep getting elected and we have a total disaster in the WH, I'd say their bets have been correct.
tanyev
(42,566 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)jalan48
(13,870 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)spooky3
(34,458 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)TygrBright
(20,762 posts)::clears throat::
::hums for note::
~ "You are lying sacks of crap!
You are lying sacks of crap!
You are lying, steaming, stinking, nastyyyyyyy....
Sacks of liquid crap!" ~
::takes bow::
::strolls offstage::
cheerfully,
Bright
DFW
(54,405 posts)I have to wonder. They have Fox Noise to hammer into the heads of their believing millions that whatever they do is just fine. If they were to propose a law requiring everyone whose last name started with the first ten letters of the alphabet has to be injected with the AIDS virus, Republicans with names from Abbott to Johnson would form lines around the country, patiently waiting with their sleeves already rolled up.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Made it ILLEGAL to inject themselves with the AIDS virus, and that President Trump overturned that law in order to help make America great again!
still_one
(92,219 posts)DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)DFW
(54,405 posts)I suspect there will be a LOT of yelling over a few secure Republican phone lines along the lines of, "what part of my simple instructions did you NOT understand?"
McTurtle will state his disappointment, but he will be walking around as if a half ton of weight had been lifted from his shoulders.