Trump did not win in the landslide he would need in order to defund the two most popular items in the federal budget. Since his election he has become the most unpopular recently elected president in recent history.

Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the United States.

 

Repeating your bullshit doesn't make it any more relevant.

Trump won the election, Trump is NOT defunding the enetitlements, Trump IS reforming them...

Try to keep up and stay on topic.

Sanders is unelectable, popular or not...unelectable on a National level.

 

The government has come up with a tax plan to help us.

 

A poll suggests...man, that's ever loving proof.

A POLL SUGGESTS...Bernie COULD beat President Donald Trump.

And then, brings good old uncle joe in the mix, and places him even higher! And you don't see the ridiculousness of any of this? I do.

 

.....I do declare...***in my most southern plantation voice***

Well, put your polls where your mouth is...Fund Brenie's campaign for him in '20, lets see where it goes.

The Country elected a non-politician in '16, while the leftists are still in shock as to why Clinton lost, a year later, they think the country wants a socialist/communist as POTUS....bizarre.

Wasn't Clinton more popular than Bernie during the '16 election?

 

politics looks as complicated as school.

 

Washington Examiner, December 5, 2017

Republicans’ sales effort on their tax plan has fallen far short and the public mostly disapproves of their planned tax cut, two polls released Tuesday show.

A Quinnipiac poll found that just 29 percent of voters approve of the plan, while 53 percent disapprove.

Similarly, a Gallup poll showed 29 percent of Americans favoring the tax cut and 56 percent disapproving.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/t...ax-bill-is-horribly-unpopular/article/2642622

Republicans do not care about public opinion. Either they agree with the canard, "America is a republic, not a democracy," so public opinion lacks moral legitimacy, or they think they can keep winning elections by gerrymandering and restricting the voting rights of demographics who are likely to vote Democrat.

 

Figures never lie, but liars figure.
Jesus.

 

There is no shortage of people who will try to make excuses why some political party is better than the other when it comes to how much money we owe.
Some will show all kinds of graphs to show how their political party never borrowed any money and even paid back some of what the other party borrowed.
The simple truth is both parties have continually had to borrow money each year. None of them has balanced the budget. They all had to borrow money.
Some will try moving money from one account into another and tell the people they have balanced the budget. Sounds good to their party and the uneducated.
If they look at how much was borrowed by the U.S. they will see no one came close to taking in as much money as they spent.
Politicians do not plan on paying back the money.
Sort of like parents who steal from their kids piggy bank.

 

After months of fits and starts, it looks like comprehensive tax reform is nearing the goal line.

This would be an ideal holiday present for the American people, who have had to live with an outdated, onerous and inefficient tax system for far too long.



Last week the Senate passed its version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The House passed a different version earlier. Republican leaders in Congress are confident that they will be able to iron out the differences and send a bill passed by both houses to President Trump by the end of the year.


Polling suggests that many Americans are dubious about the current tax reform proposal. That’s understandable, since so much of the discussion has centered on cutting corporate tax rates, which are slated to fall from 35 percent to 20 percent. Unfortunately, there’s been much less discussion about why this rate cut matters for middle-class Americans.

First, let’s make sure we understand the context. In 2004 the average worldwide corporate tax rate was 29.5 percent. Since then, the U.S. has gone in the opposite direction from every other industrialized country.

America now has the world’s highest statutory corporate tax rate – over 39 percent for combined federal and state, as compared to the current worldwide average of 25 percent.

Even France, certainly not known as the bastion of free-market capitalism, recently announced plans to lower its corporate rate from 33 percent to 25 percent over the next few years.

Why are all these countries cutting corporate rates? Simply put, they recognize that the lower rate attracts businesses and investment, thereby growing the economy and increasing opportunities for workers.

Here at home, William Randolph from the Congressional Budget Office released a preliminary working paper in 2006 that found domestic labor routinely bears 73 percent of the corporate tax burden.

In addition, according to research from Cato Institute Visiting Fellow Ike Brannon, a 10 percent decrease in the corporate tax rate would cause employment to rise by 2 percent to 4 percent and would result in a 5 percent increase in wages.

These increases are significant, tangible results for working families. More recently, the White House Council of Economic Advisers estimated that lowering the corporate tax rate to 20 percent would increase average household income by somewhere between $4,000 and $9,000 per year.

Turning back to this specific tax reform legislation, there are other benefits for middle-class taxpayers. It doubles the standard deduction, providing significant simplification. It also increases the child tax credit and lowers individual tax rates, thereby raising the take-home pay for the vast majority of taxpayers.

According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Americans of all household income brackets would get a tax cut in the first year.

The Washington Post analyzed the Tax Policy Center’s research and found that 85.4 percent of Americans earning $25,400 to $49,600 would see their taxes cut in the first year. And 83.6 percent of Americans earning $87,400 to $150,100 would similarly get a tax cut.

In addition, the Senate Finance Committee estimated that a family of four earning a median income of $73,000 would see a tax cut of nearly $2,200.

Congress’ official scorekeeper, the Joint Committee on Taxation, concluded that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would contribute to increased economic output over the next 20 years. The committee’s analysis also found that a reduction in effective marginal tax rates on wages will directly contribute to an increased labor supply.

Both common sense and economic research tell us that modernizing the tax code will provide a long-term boost to the American economy and to middle-class workers. Tax reform has come a long way down the field; it’s time to get into the end zone.

 

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

Adding more taxes is always a good solution.

 

The GST (Goods and Services Tax) is "a 5% tax on the supply of most goods and services in Canada" (Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)). In provinces that still have provincial sales taxes on goods and services, the GST is charged in addition to provincial retail taxes (i.e. in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia).Sep 30, 2017----

Canada also has a 20% corporate tax-------Right JPT--?

 

New York Times Reports 18 Billion People Will Die From Republican Tax Plan

December 4, 2017



NEW YORK, NY—New projections worked up by the New York Times in conjunction with liberal think tank Progress At All Costs suggest that the new Republican tax plan will kill up to 18 billion people out of the 7.4 billion people currently living on the planet. The Times published its findings on Monday, sounding the alarm that the adjusted tax plan will mean certain death for everybody on the planet “and then some.”

“We’ve run the numbers, and the tweaks to the current tax code will definitely kill everyone at least twice,” the Times wrote in its grave prediction. “Even those living outside the U.S. will be slaughtered by a ripple effect generated by the shuffling around of the current tax system, as minor as the adjustments may seem to some.”

“This is the end of humanity,” the Times article concluded ominously.

The detailed report suggested that the government taking slightly less money from the citizens of the U.S. would have detrimental effects, causing everything from volcanic eruptions and destructive tidal waves to a catastrophic, intergalactic invasion from aliens who feed on all organic life.

(Source: The Babylon Bee)