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What happened to the tax cuts he promised the middle class (Original Post) malaise Jan 2019 OP
They don't care...about ANYTHING other than power for power's sake... Moostache Jan 2019 #1
How come Coulter, Hannity and Limbaugh never bring up the malaise Jan 2019 #8
What happened to infrastructure? California_Republic Jan 2019 #2
Good question malaise Jan 2019 #9
My taxes increased this year. nt Snotcicles Jan 2019 #3
Mine too...loss deductions as well... Moostache Jan 2019 #11
That really sucks on your meds. Snotcicles Jan 2019 #12
They don't care as long as he makes it ok for them to hate anyone not like them. redstatebluegirl Jan 2019 #4
well the middle class has called him... jcgoldie Jan 2019 #5
i make quite a bit more than most -- but my taxes are going up unblock Jan 2019 #6
Mexico will pay for it... PeeJ52 Jan 2019 #7
He is deliberately shrinking the government safety nets and growing the military ismnotwasm Jan 2019 #10

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
1. They don't care...about ANYTHING other than power for power's sake...
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:02 PM
Jan 2019

They want to be able to tell everyone what to do but they have no plans of their own...
They want to order women to bear children under any circumstance, but no plans for how to care for those kids...
They want and want and want....MORE MORE MORE...but they can't seem to find any satisfaction unless it is from keeping others down...

Fuck the GOP.
Fuck them all, repeatedly with rusty garden hoes.
Then spray them down with rubbing alcohol and capsaicin...

malaise

(269,291 posts)
8. How come Coulter, Hannity and Limbaugh never bring up the
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:18 PM
Jan 2019

broken financial promises?

Mexico will pay for the wall
Tax cuts for the rich will benefit everyone and will pay for themselves
Here comes your income tax benefits.

Stupid fucks - wake up!

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
11. Mine too...loss deductions as well...
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:30 PM
Jan 2019

Then found out that my health insurance drug plan decided to exclude two medications that I have been taking under prescriptions from a specialist in the field...the plan simply cut the medications from the list of 'approved' medications and informed me via letter that I would have to switch to an older, less effective treatment schedule, over the objections of my doctor, or go out of pocket to the tune of $15,500 a year.

This is GOP living for middle class Americans circa 2019...while the poor are riled up and set at each other's throats (through race, religion, sex or all of the above) and the rich abscond with tax credits and breaks that bankrupt the system, the middle class sees their standard of living eroded year by year, decision by decision...and the morons who vote based on "culture war issues" sit back and smirk thinking "we showed those libtards with the SCOTUS and Gorsuch and Kavanaugh".

This country is a shit hole right now. It is on the way to veritable hell hole status by 2020 and if we do not regain the entire government it will simply cease to exist as a Constitutional representative republic entirely.

I am so disgusted by this entire situation that I am seriously ready to explode emigration options and get as far away from it as possible before the spasms of collapse start in earnest.

 

Snotcicles

(9,089 posts)
12. That really sucks on your meds.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:43 PM
Jan 2019

If we keep backing candidates are aligned with and take money from the big money interests, it will never change for the better.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
4. They don't care as long as he makes it ok for them to hate anyone not like them.
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:03 PM
Jan 2019

Nothing is more important to his base than making America lily white.

jcgoldie

(11,658 posts)
5. well the middle class has called him...
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:04 PM
Jan 2019

...and told him that they are happy to give up those promised tax cuts for a great WALL!

unblock

(52,494 posts)
6. i make quite a bit more than most -- but my taxes are going up
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:06 PM
Jan 2019

because of the limitation on state and local taxes.

i live in connecticut, and in addition to the state income tax, i also pay a ton in mortgage interest and property taxes. it all made sense when i bought in 2007 (just in time to enjoy the full housing market crash), but now i'm locked into something that's more expensive than i would have liked.

personally, i don't mind taxes going up on someone like me. i'll get by fine enough. but i'm annoyed by the capriciousness of it (donnie trying to get revenge on the blue states) and i'm baffled as to how republicans think this will help the republican party.

there are a *lot* of republicans in my situation, and they'll be pissed -- and that will mean a prime source of donations for the republican party will dry up. they'll be left with the poor bigots and the greedy billionaires only. the upper-middle class republican will not be opening up their wallets for the republican party to the same extent they used to, at least, not those in states with high income and property taxes.

ismnotwasm

(42,023 posts)
10. He is deliberately shrinking the government safety nets and growing the military
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 12:20 PM
Jan 2019

He is a Republican dream, anti-gay, anti-abortion. Taxes he fucked up on, but at this point they don’t care

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