Article from Town Hall by Guy Benson.
Appearing at a forum hosted by a left-wing political organization and a Democrat-aligned labor union, California Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris insisted that the 2017 tax reform law must be repealed in its entirety. Just in case there was any ambiguity on this point, she repeated her position for a second time. Via the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel:
Twice, Harris has said she wants to repeal the entire 2017 bill. But @greenhousenyt's Q was about whether she'd want to legislatively limit corporate stock buybacks — she hasn't really answered. (There is a robust debate on the left about banning those buybacks.)
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 27, 2019
Harris wasn’t alone in espousing this view, Politico reports: “Nearly every Democratic candidate has vowed to roll back Trump’s 2017 tax reform legislation, which they say unfairly benefits corporations and top earners.” Democrats have relentlessly attacked the tax reform law as a giveaway to the rich and corporations, pretending that it screws over middle-income and working class Americans. They’ve repeated this mantra so often, with minimal fact-based pushback from the media, that they’ve managed to convince most Americans that they did not receive a tax cut in 2018. The data shows that more than 80 percent of the country did, in fact, receive a tax cut, including more than 90 percent of the middle class. Democratic propaganda may have been effective, but it’s also come with a political downside: Because their politicians and their base seem to have internalized a sweeping falsehood as reality, they’re vulnerable to potent attacks over ideas like Harris’ repeal push.
Reversing the GOP-passed law would result in a significant tax increase for nearly every middle class family in America. If many voters are confused or ambivalent on the impact tax reform had on their personal finances — thanks to the aforementioned deliberate disinformation campaign (read this shot and chaser as an example) — their minds will focus rather quickly if and when Democrats try to take away the tax cuts they’ve received, and from which they’ve benefited. We’ve learned over and over again that it’s hard to rescind benefits or policy advantages once they’ve been implemented. And raising taxes on virtually all middle-income families and earners is politically toxic — yet that’s precisely what Harris is proposing. Of course, massive tax increases on working Americans is an inevitable consequence of her wildly fantastical agenda. Republicans should try to get as many Democratic 2020 hopefuls on the record in favor of this idea as possible. They’re walking into a trap set by their own bogus talking points.
As for the cheap attack about ‘tax giveaways to corporations,’ remember that reducing the US corporate tax rate was so badly needed that even President Obama supported it, albeit at a different level. The new law brought the corporate rate in alignment with the approximate OECD average, down from one of the very highest in the industrialized world. This new level of competitiveness has helped fuel a strong economy, featuring historically-low unemployment. The first quarter GDP’s growth rate of 3.2 percent surprised experts, who’d expected a slower expansion. Correlation and causation are not synonymous, but it’s hard to argue there’s no causal effect here…
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It is amazing how Kamala Harris made into the position holds today. Did she make it on the casting couch?
Yes, look it up.
Read she and Willie Brown were a thing…validating your query. She was also endorsed by Obamination….so she could continue his program to damage and lower America further.
Proof liberals can not do simple math. All it takes is a little add, subtraction and wow I had more money in each retirement check, and a larger refund from IRS. I am far from a 1%er. Unable to do math or born to lie?
Forced unionization is much like nationalization. These people are hard core communists. And you thought they were only democrats.
The picture shows democrats in true form. A picture of lies and thieves. Holder being the main one. Holder , try prosecuting me. Love to get in court with your crap.
These CAMOUFLAGED COMMUNISTS posing as DEMO”RATS” are looking to turn OUR AMERICA into a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. There is NO LOGIC , ALBEIT, MADNESS is just that . Just look @ what’s seated in CONGRESS.. that my friends is a look into DANTE’S INFERNO. GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP… & MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA ,& KEEP it SAFE from these GOVERNMENT OBSTRUCTIONIST LUNATICS. Thank You.
Democrats want total control of our lives. Nothing else will satisfy them. If you don’t believe me, listed carefully to their own words. Are they ever advocating anything other than more control of us?
No way! Never!
Nnooo more unions in the USA and abolish those still up and running. They do Absolutely nothing for the employees forced to pay weekly union dues. They demand you strike having you think they are for employees but without a paycheck we needed food. The union, after 3 weeks of striking, had my husband to 12 miles away to stand in line for 3 bags of outdated, dented cans of groceries that stores could no longer sell. All this aggravation and the union settled for 5¢ an hour increase in pay. Seriously-!!! Then the union leaders go on exclusive trips. Abolish Unions-!!!
Nnooo more unions in the USA and abolish those still up and running. They do Absolutely nothing for the employees forced to pay weekly union dues. They demand you strike having you think they are for employees but without a paycheck we needed food. The union, after 3 weeks of striking, had my husband to 12 miles away to stand in line for 3 bags of outdated, dented cans of groceries that stores could no longer sell. All this aggravation and the union settled for 5¢ an hour increase in pay. Seriously-!!! Then the union leaders go on exclusive trips. Abolish Unions-!!!
They want to promote a certain candidate by the union. People will trust the recommendations of the union maybe.
The day of Unions herding their members to the voting booths to do their bidding (voting Democrat),
is over.
Rise up America and expel these scumbags before it is too late .