• Etterra@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I’ll believe it after it’s happened and has overcome the Supreme Court when the inevitable lawsuits sweep in.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    They won’t do shit. Fuck the democrats.

    But I’ll vote for them over the literal fascists (Trump). Watch your fucking back in 2028, though.

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
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      You can’t say it with all that umpfh if you’re actually paying attention. It’s more accurately, “they’ll do more than I expected, but they won’t do enough, even with the clear mandate to do so”.

      You’re either not paying attention or taking a lot of progress for granted when making the initial statement.

  • 31337@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s very unlikely they’ll control the Senate. I don’t even think they’ll control the presidency.

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    I mean, they also could have done that this year, or 3 years ago, if they’d had control of Washington. You can actually change any laws you want when you control the lawmaking bodies.

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    I’ll eat my shoe if they do anything of real note

    it’ll be better than not doing anything but not much

  • downpunxx@fedia.io
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    while it should have been a walk in the park, that “if” is starting to seem extremely tenuous at the moment

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Senate Finance Committee Democrats met Thursday to discuss President Donald Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, portions of which expire in 2025.

    Pressure is already mounting from the party’s left flank to insist on sharp increases in the corporate tax rate and on the highest individual earners — and not to agree to any compromise with Republicans otherwise.

    In the House, some top lawmakers are reevaluating past tax-and-spending bills that prioritized broad short-term investments that have since expired, demanding instead that Democrats focus on bringing in more revenue from major corporations and the rich that can permanently fund a limited number of high-impact social programs.

    Trump, meanwhile, told business leaders this month that he hopes to cut corporate taxes to 20 percent, according to two people familiar with his remarks who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private meeting.

    In the Senate, their odds are worse, but recent polls show vulnerable Democratic incumbents in Ohio, Montana, Pennsylvania, Nevada and a challenger in Arizona outperforming expectations.

    “There simply is no reason we can look at our economy right now and justify tax cuts for millionaires,” Daniel Hornung, deputy director of the White House National Economic Council, said Monday at the left-leaning Washington Center for Equitable Growth.


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