Senate passes their Tax bill

Well known socialist leaning publication Fortune with some of the more outrageous provisions in the tax bill.

tl;dr fuck the environment, fuck Puerto Rico, fuck you got mine.

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No. A year or two from now, their voters won’t remember a thing about this bill. Hell, they’re already in denial about it.

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If you’ve ever wondered how much money it takes to polish a turd here 'ya go:

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$20 mill is probably a lot less than this bill is going to bestow upon them. Why wouldn’t they invest in selling the unwashed on even more such “freedom from the tyranny of taxes!” and such?

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They are running radio ads in the NoVaDCMd area already. It’s killing my morning commute peace of mind.

“Mommy, why is that man screaming ‘LIES! LIES!’ at his radio?”

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The irony is that over 70 million across the various GOP PACs has been spent so far and they haven’t budged the needle in favor of the tax bill. The majority still don’t like it and the majority think it’s at their expense. Oops!

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Yep, by about 3 orders of magnitude, IIRC.

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"Republican lawmakers say their tax bill will increase taxes only on “rich people in Manhattan and San Francisco.”

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Thread:

https://twitter.com/alisonkgerber/status/943429743965286400

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The potential impact to charitable donations is something I didn’t even consider at the time but I guess I’m not totally surprised. I dropped off a bunch of stuff at the not for profit thrift store the other day and after I got my tax receipt all I could think is there’s no way I’ll be able to deduct this.

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