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Trump Voters: One Year in, and hes Broken 20 Big Promises He Made to You
1. He told you hed cut your taxes, and that the super-rich like him would pay more. You bought it. But his new tax law does the opposite. By 2027, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the richest 1 percent will have got 83 percent of the tax cut and the richest 0.1 percent, 60 percent of it. But more than half of all Americans 53 percent will pay more in taxes. As Trump told his wealthy friends at Mar-a-Lago just days after the tax bill became law, You all just got a lot richer.
2. He promised to close special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors but unfair to American workers, especially the notorious carried interest loophole for private-equity, hedge fund, and real estate partners. You bought it. But the new tax law keeps the carried interest loophole.
3. He told you hed repeal Obamacare and replace it with something beautiful. You bought it. But he didnt repeal and he didnt replace. (Just as well: His plan would have knocked at least 23 million Americans off health insurance, including many of you.) Instead, hes doing what he can to cut it back and replace it with nothing. The new tax law will result in 13 million people losing health coverage, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
4. He told you hed invest $1 trillion in our nations crumbling infrastructure. You bought it. But after his giant tax cut for corporations and millionaires, theres no money left for infrastructure.
5. He said hed drain the Washington swamp. You bought it. But hes brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses, and hes filled departments and agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are crafting new policies for the same industries they recently worked for.
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)America will only be saved when he is officially removed from office.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Now all we are left with is muck and frog shit.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Timmygoat
(779 posts)Ryan is salivating at the thought of shutting down medicare and social security, it has always been his fondest dream and now he sees it on the horizon.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)My husband and I are afraid to even think about retiring.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)Religious repubs are waiting for the only thing they care about. The end of legal abortions. Sooner or later a test case will be before the Supreme Court. They are salivating over the Gorsuch vote. These folks will destroy the country over abortion.
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)"I will be the most racist President ever!"