Hold on: House Republicans want a national 30% sales tax on everything from groceries to gasoline? They want to raise taxes on working-class & middle-class families while slashing them for millionaires & billionaires?
Are they TRYING to show exactly how out of touch they are?
House Republicans love to yell about fiscal responsibility. But their very first bill would add $114 billion to the deficit by making it easier for the super-rich to cheat on their taxes.
They don’t care about balancing the budget. They care about coddling the wealthy.
@richtessier We just getting ready for that sweet delicious inevitable playoff loss that lurks on the horizon ready to put a nail in this magical ride of a season. But for real. Love KOC and Kwesi the future is bright.
Donald Trump having a Chinese bank account while he was president is an infinitely bigger scandal than Hunter Biden having his dick pics stolen and leaked on the internet.
Whether it’s liberals interrupting Brett Kavanaugh‘s meal with a chant, or conservatives interrupting Paul Pelosi‘s evening with a hammer blow to the head, both sides have a problem respecting the privacy of public figures.
After every single school shooting, Republicans tell us it’s not guns, it’s mental health.
Today, 205 Republicans just voted against increasing mental health access in schools.
It's always "$600 checks two years ago and 50-cent raises for workers are causing inflation"
and never "$3 trillion from the Fed to bail out the stock market, $1 trillion in annual corporate stock buybacks and a 1,322% rise in CEO pay since 1978 are causing inflation"
Right now, the average billionaire—there are about 790 of them or so in America—has an average federal tax rate of 8%.
No billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a teacher, a firefighter, an electrician, or a police officer.