When Ann Kuster (and the rest of New Hampshire’s All Gurl Congressional Delegation) voted against tax reform on purely ideological grounds (based on fake news and flawed data), they voted to continue a punishing regressive tax on low-income families.
Republicans included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act a provision reducing the Obamacare penalty for not purchasing “qualifying” health insurance to $0, beginning in January 2019. This move was particularly important for working-class families because IRS tax data show of the 6.6 million filers required to pay the Obamacare penalty in 2015, the most recent year for which data are available, 36 percent had an adjusted gross income of $10,000 to $25,000.
That means Republicans’ decision to lower the penalty to $0 will save millions of working-class people from having to pay fees they likely can’t afford.
Effectively eliminating the Obamacare penalty will provide great financial relief to millions of people, but it won’t help Americans gain access to lower-priced health insurance policies. Thankfully, the Trump administration has implemented other reforms to accomplish that goal.
If you skim their collectivist press releases trumpeting their opposition to ‘Republican’ Tax Reform you’ll find boilerplate nonsense from left-wing think tanks that have been debunked. But that really doesn’t matter.
Democrats have no interest in tax reform that benefits anyone but politicians, lobbyists, and budget-busting expansions of federal power. If they did they would have used their complete control of Congress and the Executive Branch from 2008-2010 to reform the IRS. Give people living in the great recession a break.
Instead, we got bank bailouts, a trillion dollar stimulus for favored constituencies, auto-company bailouts, a massive government takeover of healthcare, and spending that doubled of tripled federal agency budgets. Billions more were dumped down green-energy holes (operated by donors of friends and family) and their banking reform bill crushed small competitors in favor of financial giants.
In just a few years the national debt, which was a crime against humanity at 10 trillion (according to Democrats), swelled to nearly 20 trillion with nary a whisper about the tax burden it left on job creators, families, or future generations.
The Democrat Senate obstructed the Republican House from 2011-2014 (Ann Kuster joined the House in 2013 and embraced Nancy Pelosi, not tax reform). Obama obstructed the Republican Congress from 2014-2016. So America needed Trump to get tax relief. And they delivered.
No Democrat, certainly not from New Hampshire, ever broached the subject.
Democrats have less than zero-credibility on the idea of tax reform unless that means raising taxes. They didn’t want taxes lowered, they certainly don’t want them to be permanent, and they don’t care who is punished because of their opposition.
Republicans moved forward anyway. They lowered everyone’s tax burden, raised deductions for families, and eliminated the oppressive, regressive, tax on low-income Americans in ObamaCare. And now Republicans want to make all of those tax cuts permanent, the lack of which the Democrats insisted was another reason they voted against it.
Hogwash!
What will be their excuse this time when they have to vote against making tax cuts for middle-class Americans permanent? They’ll think of something. In fact they already have. All the while claiming compassion for working folks and the poor.
No one has screwed the poor more than Democrats. They’re more interested in dependents who vote for them to get their bread than in your comfort or God forbid, the ability to pursue your own idea of prosperity.
Trump has overseen the lowest unemployment figures for blacks and Hispanics since they started keeping records. Millions have been able to leave the Food Stamp program; Democrats were encouraging people to get on it.
Wake up. Vote your Wallets and pocketbooks. That means vote Republican.
Because there is no Democrat in existence who can tell you how much of your money the government needs to do whatever the hell it is they want to do with it. Not one. Because there is no enough.
