Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
I understand Republicans saying they had to vote for this crappy spending bill because now is not a good time to stand up for our principles. Okay, you guys are the experts, I’ll trust your judgment.
It’s just that I’ve been voting Republican for nearly 40 years and I haven’t seen you stand up for me yet. Never quite enough votes for a super-majority and always the danger of being called names by the media.
I’m really interested to know: will it be time to stand up for our principles soon, do you think?
Joe Doakes
The time is never quite right, is it?
So, we’ll “supply side” up the revenue forecasts and “trickle down” the tax cuts, and, presto, we’re at “unbelievably big” tax cuts. Trump’s voters have to wait a little longer for the bountiful trickle down dollar rain. But it will come. For sure. Just wait. Like they waited since Reagan. But it’s just around the corner. Almost there.
You’re right, Emery, that’s how Democrats and Establishment Republicans have played the game for decades. It’s time to stop.
Personally, I can’t see any end to limitless entitlements until (a) the economy collapses from outside forces or (b) someone with backbone refuses to sign a spending bill.
Either way, the result would be chaotic, of course. We’d have no choice but to recall our troops, turn away poor schoolchildren from the lunch lines unfed, cut off the data plans for Obama phones, and serve notice on the UN that we’re pulling out. EBT cards would stop working and neither MPR nor Archer Daniels Midland would get a check. Airlines would be grounded. There would be riots. It would be horrific for a while.
But that’s going to happen anyway, if the economy collapses from bread and circuses, so maybe we ought to bite the bullet now to attempt a soft landing that preserves some government services rather than continue sailing along blithely assuming everything will work out somehow?
Offer to sign a spending bill that covers the items listed in Article I, plus a modest sum for Article II executive branch offices and Article III judges. Let the rest howl.
The GOP is hopelessly split. That is why healthcare failed. Corporate America is not interested in investment or growth. The only thing that counts is EPS and bonuses. And the data are dreadful. Wall St is excited about Trumpflation in the manner of Pavlov’s dogs but the economy is seriously unwell. The GOP deserves the next crash.
but the economy is seriously unwell
But it was awesome under 0bumbler! Oh the irony! The hypocrisy!
BTW, healthcare bill passed first hurdle, it did not fail. But then facts and truth and history (even from a week ago) mean nothing to you. What a maroon…
Corporate America is not interested in investment or growth
Really? REALLY? And you CLAIM to work in an oil/petrochemical sector? Really? If you can make that claim, you are lying.
That is three strikes in one post. Care to go for 4 in next, SFB eTASS?
Kudos for Trump trying to remove loop-holes on the personal tax side, but why is this absent from the corporate tax side?