Current Events > Thanks to the shit media, Americans don't realize that 80% of them get tax cuts

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The media accurately reported on the bill. It's a garbage bill that was passed through a garbage process. It was unpopular from the very beginning because it's a huge tax cut where the vast majority of the benefits go to the wealthy and corporations. Those aren't popular policies. There are or were all sorts of attacks on blue states, students, and professions that typically vote democrat (state tax deductions, work expenses, student stipend income etc). It's been rushed through so that almost no one has any time to understand it, so much of its popularity depends on whether you trust the Republicans and the Republican party is less popular than cancer right now.

These media websites you are reflexively attacking (and then posting as your sources?) accurately informed people about the law. They posted tax cut calculators and scenarios. They all said that most people would be getting a small, temporary tax cut while work would still be taxed at a higher rate than unearned income and Republicans were openly bragging about how this would blow a hole in the deficit and how we would need to fix that by cutting SS, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.

They could have passed a tax plan that would have been very popular and gotten bipartisan support. It still could have included cuts to the corporate tax rate and simplification of the tax code. They could have focused on a big cut for the middle class to show they're not simply passing a plan for and by their donors as they openly admitted at throughout the process.

Maybe all this has something to do with why people don't think this bill will benefit them?
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HypnoCoosh posted...

Hey this looks just like the tax bill, isnt this the paper they wrote it on?
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