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Nevilledog

(51,198 posts)
Mon May 3, 2021, 02:45 PM May 2021

Today's edition of "Mitch McConnell is a POS"



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May 3, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: “The bipartisanship of last year has broken down because our colleagues on the other side of the aisle just can’t resist stretching out the pandemic, using it as a rationale for additional spending …”



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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hits at Biden’s infrastructure plan, saying the administration “wants to undo” the 2017 tax bill:

“They want to raise the corporate rate to the highest in the world ... We’re not going to revisit the 2017 tax bill.”

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Today's edition of "Mitch McConnell is a POS" (Original Post) Nevilledog May 2021 OP
All eyes on Manchin...nt Fiendish Thingy May 2021 #1
Yes, Moscow Mitch TheRealNorth May 2021 #2
Maybe it's time for the wealthy to get off the government teat gratuitous May 2021 #3
"The bipartisanship of last year"? I don't think even the Qs will swallow that one. Midnight Writer May 2021 #4

TheRealNorth

(9,500 posts)
2. Yes, Moscow Mitch
Mon May 3, 2021, 04:18 PM
May 2021

We want to undo the huge tax cuts for the rich you passed in 2017.

We get to do that when we control all 3 branches of Government, and if it can be passed under reconciliation rules, then it should be able to be undone with the same rules.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. Maybe it's time for the wealthy to get off the government teat
Mon May 3, 2021, 04:29 PM
May 2021

I feel they've become dependent on low tax rates. Time for them to sink or swim and start paying for the system that's made them so wealthy.

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