U.S. tax cuts follow NCs wrong path

[G_j]

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article187729893.html


UPDATED DECEMBER 02, 2017 05:25 PM

Much of the nation looked on in shock last week as Senate Republicans trampled the legislative process in their rush to deliver big tax cuts to corporations and the top 1 percent of earners. But for people in North Carolina it was an all too familiar approach to passing unfair and unpopular legislation.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell did a fine imitation of North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger as he rounded up votes and pushed a tax-cut bill that overwhelming favors corporations and the very wealthy. The approach had all the hallmarks of major North Carolina legislation since Republicans took full control of the legislature in 2011. There were no public hearings. Phone calls of protest were dismissed, and polls showing a majority of the public opposed were ignored. There was no Democratic support. Expert assessments of the legislation went unread or were waved off.

“Not a single member of this chamber has read the bill,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the Senate floor before the 500-page bill passed early Saturday morning. “It would be impossible.”


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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Not to mention Kansas.

Sam Brownback, the governor, got elected in 2010 promising tax cuts. He kept that promise. Even though the economy tanked and schools were hit hard, he got re-elected in 2014. The decline continues.