Trump Floats 10% Middle Class Tax Cut With Election Looming. The Only Problem: Congress Isn’t in Session
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Trump Floats 10% Middle Class Tax Cut With Election Looming. The Only Problem: Congress Isn’t in Session
President Donald Trump announced a new 10% tax cut would come into effect before the midterms, intended only for the middle class, not for businesses—nor the rich.
The only trouble? Congress isn’t in session, congressional leaders haven’t heard about it, nothing has been drafted, and Trump seemed to have invented it from whole cloth on Oct. 20, based on a confirmation provided by a White House spokesperson who spoke to CNBC .
Trump’s talk of a 10% tax cut comes a few weeks after the House took advantage of the attention focused on the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh to pass $3.8 trillion in additional tax cuts on top of the December 2017 changes. Passed on Sept. 28, there was little chance of the Senate taking up this legislation, and the Senate has so far ignored it.
Trump first mentioned the new 10% tax cut while standing on an airplane tarmac in Nevada on Saturday, when he said , “We are going to be putting in and are studying very deeply right now, around the clock a major tax cut for middle-income people.” He said the cuts would be in place by November.
During questions with reporters on Oct. 22 before he left the White House on the Marine One helicopter, Trump was peppered with questions about how a tax cut could go into effect with Congress out of session until after the midterm elections on Nov. 6.
According to the White House transcript, Trump said the administration was “putting in a resolution” in the next one to two weeks.
A reporter asked if Trump were signing an executive order. He said, “No. No. No. I’m going through Congress.”
When reminded Congress wasn’t in session, the president said, “We won’t have time to do the vote. We’ll do the vote later…We’ll do the vote after the election.”
The December 2017 tax cut involved seven weeks of negotiation before narrow passage on party lines, with all Democrats in the House and Senate who voted casting no votes, as well as 12 GOP House members. The tax cut has become a political albatross for the GOP, with two-thirds of Americans in a poll commissioned by the Republican National Committee agreeing that the new law benefitted “large corporations and rich Americans.”
Trump has tacitly conceded that Republicans have lost control of this message by asserting an immediate tax cut that would benefit the middle class alone.
Lying sack of shit.
President Donald Trump announced a new 10% tax cut would come into effect before the midterms, intended only for the middle class, not for businesses—nor the rich.
The only trouble? Congress isn’t in session, congressional leaders haven’t heard about it, nothing has been drafted, and Trump seemed to have invented it from whole cloth on Oct. 20, based on a confirmation provided by a White House spokesperson who spoke to CNBC .
Just like he has invented the "riots" in California, the "Middle Easterners" in the "Caravan" and, the jobs numbers if he pulls us out of any arms deal with Saudi Arabia. This man lies more than a Turkish rug.
Interesting how the lying sack of shit threw 'Middle Easterners' into that Caravan.
Hey, anything to stoke that base, look how many on here believe his lies.
Trump has been kicking his lying into high gear lately, and his approval numbers are higher than ever. His pathological lying, disastrous foreign policy, calls to violence, and gratuitous cruelty is aok with half the country. This is where we are. Young people may act enthusiastic, but they always let you down on election day. The Democrats are not going to take the House back. You may think the last two years were terrible, but they are going to seem like good times if the Scum party holds their majorities.
It's all about getting Democrats on the record admitting they know better about what do with citizens money than they do.