GOP lawmaker: Universal health care is too expensive but tax cuts for the rich are necessary

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Source: Think Progress

As moderate Republican lawmakers move away from the Senate health care bill over concerns it doesn’t do enough to preserve insurance access, hardline conservatives are arguing it should be even more stringent — including Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks (R), who thinks universal health care is a non-starter but the wealthy should receive a tax cut.

Appearing on CNN Monday morning, Brooks, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, argued that health care for all is an unrealistic goal, while discussing the health care bill currently being reviewed by the Senate. According to the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, approximately 22 million Americans will lose their health insurance under the bill. That number has attracted outrage — but Brooks argued such reactions are overblown.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/brooks-tax-cut-wealthy-health-care-c23c4b75a6f9

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Hey Mo, FUCK YOU, you support and have spent tax payer money giving tax breaks to dead beats like Exxon Mobil, Chase, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, and most of the health companies, that off shore there money.

And then asshole, you have individuals that take there money that they got from the have not's, and put them in off shore accounts and they don't pay there taxes, with all of the loop holes and bribes they give you to screw everyone below them

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1. From Rep. Brooks' Wikipedia page

Brooks was born in 1954 in Charleston, South Carolina,[6] and moved to Huntsville, Alabama, in 1963. His mother, Betty J. (Noland) Brooks, taught economics and government for over twenty years at Lee High School, while he attended Grissom High School. His father, Morris Jackson "Jack" Brooks, was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee,[7] and worked as an electrical engineer before retiring from Redstone Arsenal's Meteorology Center.[8] They still live in Madison County, Alabama.[9]

Brooks graduated from Grissom High School in 1972. He graduated from Duke University in three years with a double major in political science and economics, with highest honors in economics.[10] Brooks later received his J.D. degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1978.[10]

Brooks started his legal career with the Tuscaloosa district attorney's office. Brooks left the Tuscaloosa district attorney's office in 1980 to return to Huntsville as a law clerk for presiding circuit court judge John David Snodgrass. During every year except when he was serving as a prosecutor or judicial clerk, Brooks was a practicing lawyer. In 1993, he became of counsel to the firm of Leo and Associates, a business law firm with a national focus, founded by Karl W. Leo. He became a partner in the firm which was reorganized as Leo & Brooks, LLC. He maintained a national practice that specialized in commercial litigation.

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It makes sense that he'd feel the way he does - he was sent to Washington by his clients to do their bidding. It doesn't make it any less reprehensible, but it explains things.

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2. Thank you....................

He's still an ass, his parents got an education that was public, he got his education that was public and paid for by taxpayers and now he thinks that public health care should be to the highest bidder.............go figure.