Utopia Talk / Politics / House passes Reverse Robin Hood Bill

murder Member	Fri May 23 06:14:20 Taking from the poor to give to the wealthiest and exploding the deficit and the national debt. The countdown until the Senate GOP caves and give Trump exactly what he wants starts now.
Rugian Member	Fri May 23 11:47:05 President Donald Trump had been paying attention. The day before, he had gone to Capitol Hill to deliver a simple message to House Republican holdouts on his signature domestic-policy bill: Fall in line — now. But not all heeded the message, and one in particular — Rep. Andy Harris, the Freedom Caucus chair — caught Trump’s notice. Harris left the Tuesday morning meeting before Trump had even finished speaking and told reporters that holdouts were “a long ways away” from a deal. “The president, I don’t think, convinced enough people that the bill is adequate the way it is,” he said. Now Harris was in the Cabinet Room, pressing for deeper cuts along with several other key holdouts, and Trump was pissed. He suddenly cut off the conversation and lit into the Maryland Republican. Trump told Harris he’d seen his comments: “You’re out there grandstanding when you should be uniting,” the president seethed, according to three people familiar with the meeting who were granted anonymity to describe it. “You are going to sink this legislation and have the highest tax increase in history and bankrupt the country. That’s the only alternative.” “Enough is enough,” he snapped. “Get it done.” Trump walked out of the room, leaving them stunned. So it was that the GOP megabill — a package of trillions of dollars in tax cuts coupled with key Trump spending priorities — was suddenly put on a glide path toward House passage early Thursday morning. To hear senior Republicans tell it, the president essentially sent the conservative rabble-rousers back down Pennsylvania Avenue with their tails between their legs, forcing them to swallow a deal they had insisted just 24 hours earlier was not good enough. There’s a feeling among White House aides (to say nothing of GOP congressional leaders) that the hard-liners overplayed their hand, trying to nickel-and-dime Trump at every opportunity. Instead, they say, it blew up in their faces. The hard-liners themselves have a different version of events. One conservative closely involved in the talks told me it was “straight-up bullshit” that they’d gotten rolled at the White House, ticking off a number of commitments secured during the meeting, including a promise for a new health-care-related executive order they believe could save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. But facts are facts: Members who went into the White House vowing it would be days or weeks until a deal could get done ended up voting for the bill less than 24 hours later (though not Harris, who voted present). Continues at http://www...s-rachael-bade-column-00366409
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri May 23 12:33:06 raising the deficit is the path to avoid bankruptcy? dictator Trump has such novel ideas!
obaminated Member	Fri May 23 12:37:53 Fyi, murder and tw still think, 10 years later, that trump called nazis good people. That is their value in a political debate.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri May 23 13:00:39 luckily defense spending will go up as it was dangerously low... & makes extra sense given Trump's disinterest in doing anything around the world ...plus not at all contradicting Trump's complaints that our amount spent is too high (when talking of NATO funding... which he's never understood...)
obaminated Member	Fri May 23 14:36:21 And that is tws argument. He doesn't pay taxes soooo.
Sam Adams Member	Fri May 23 15:31:34 Oh no the lazy might need to work now? So sad
murder Member	Fri May 23 17:21:33 You're going to need a second job. -
Forwyn Member	Fri May 23 17:46:03 tw/murder are mad they won't qualify for DOGE dividend checks
tumbleweed the wanderer	Sat May 24 01:38:56 cause the gov't sending checks to people is only inflationary when Biden does it... (also those checks are not in this bill, if you were thinking so... only idiotically named cult "Trump Accounts" for newborns)
Forwyn Member	Sat May 24 12:11:57 Yes, this is true. Sending a quarter of a nigger's yearly income to them to allow them to buy a new TV and Jordans is 100% inflationary. Sending a couple grand to an established, contributing family that pays off bills and saves money is much less inflationary.
Sam Adams Member	Sat May 24 12:22:10 Government should not be giving anyone handouts.
murder Member	Sat May 24 19:05:33 "Sending a couple grand to an established, contributing family that pays off bills and saves money is much less inflationary." Are the exploding deficits and debt not a problem either? -
Forwyn Member	Sat May 24 20:59:50 Depends if promises are kept. If dividends are 20% of (proven) cuts, there is no room to complain about deficits and debts.
murder Member	Sun May 25 06:58:50 Huh?
murder Member	Sun May 25 07:00:42 Did you just say that as long as you get a check it's fine if Trump bankrupts the nation?
Forwyn Member	Sun May 25 10:44:06 Reading is hard, I know.
murder Member	Sun May 25 12:53:11 Apparently, because every time I read it says the exact same thing. -
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