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JohnnyRingo

(20,216 posts) Tue Mar 10, 2020, 06:11 PM Mar 2020

So now they want a payroll tax cut. [View all]

If it causes such economic wonders, why didn't they do it the first time? Instead, the working class was ignored to give cuts to the Mar a Lago class. Apparently you can't cut a tax base of zero.

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So now they want a payroll tax cut. [View all] JohnnyRingo Mar 2020 OP

tax cut pamdb Mar 2020 #1

I watched part of the presser mindem Mar 2020 #2

I started a similar thread saying the same thing, gab13by13 Mar 2020 #11

to spend on what? ibegurpard Mar 2020 #3

And trump wants to make it permanent spanone Mar 2020 #4

No problems, just put an equal tax on the top 1%. OnDoutside Mar 2020 #6

we know that won't happen spanone Mar 2020 #7

Exactly, but put it back to him. OnDoutside Mar 2020 #8

It will just add fuel to the argument for cutting Medicare and Social Security. kentuck Mar 2020 #5

Exactly, gab13by13 Mar 2020 #12

They are using the opportunity to break out the knives misanthrope Mar 2020 #14

Read Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine malaise Mar 2020 #9

Yep. I thought there would be more posts on DU about how Klein's Dark n Stormy Knight Mar 2020 #16

Same here but there is so much going on malaise Mar 2020 #17

Electioneering for Dummies maxsolomon Mar 2020 #10

All they have to do is give people the choice, gab13by13 Mar 2020 #13

Tortoise and the Hare maxsolomon Mar 2020 #15