Tax Day Headlines Expose GOP Tax Scam
"Employment is up, taxes are DOWN. Enjoy!" – President Trump
"Now you have a new year of lower tax rates … a simplified system. These are good things. People know it. People see it." – Speaker Ryan
"We are implementing a 21st Century tax code, and that gives everyone a reason to celebrate … This is about real people." – House GOP Chairwoman McMorris Rodgers
"More fairness, less time & greater simplicity." – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Brady
But hard-working Americans across the country know this is just more hollow rhetoric from the GOP.
Tax Day headlines are exposing the nasty truth of the GOP tax scam: a bill that abandons working families to enrich corporations and the wealthiest one percent, explodes the debt by nearly $2 trillion and endangers Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Washington Post Op-Ed: Republicans can't even run on Ryan's singular ‘achievement'
Republican candidates running this year want to talk all about taxes. What about the voters? Not so much … The latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll shows that "27% of respondents thought the [tax] law was a good idea, while 36% thought it was a bad idea."
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Republicans were listening to donors and their own ideological echo chamber when they decided that taxes would be their focus after efforts to repeal Obamacare failed. The Republican Party for decades has put nearly all of its economic focus on tax cuts. Average Americans, however, care about health care, immigration, the environment, guns, etc. In the same Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, voters give Democrats the lead on those issues, plus on handling Russia, sexual harassment and even "changing how things work in Washington."
New York Magazine: The Trump Tax Cuts Are Still Unpopular. That's a Crisis for Conservatives.
Between 1980 and 2016, the American public never met a tax cut it didn't like … And then, America met the Trump Tax Cuts. When Congress passed the president's signature legislation in December, it was the least popular tax bill in modern American history.
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For American conservatives, this was a harrowing development. It was one thing for the public to disdain the GOP's attempts to pare back Obamacare — retrenching the welfare state has always been the sour note in the right's paean to "small government." But if fiscal conservatives can no longer sell voters on across-the-board, deficit-financed tax cuts — untainted by any simultaneous attack on the safety net — what are they so supposed to sell them?
New York Times: No One's Talking About the New Tax Law
If Mr. Trump has lost some interest in the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul that he signed into law last year — even though the White House keeps scheduling events to promote it — well, the country is right there with him … by all sorts of metrics, Americans aren't talking very much about a law that Republicans had hoped to make a centerpiece of their midterm election message.
San Diego Union-Tribune Opinion: GOP tax cuts put a burden on our children
By 2020, our national deficit will reach $1 trillion. By 2028, the national debt will be at 96 percent of GDP … The Republican overhaul of our tax code will boost the national debt and increase interest rates.
Talk about an ill-timed stimulus for our current robust economy … Completely irresponsible, all in the name of passing "legislation." In essence, we turned economic logic on its head.
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The negative consequences will be swift and severe. Explain our deficit denial to your children. Our national debt for every man, woman and child is more than $65,000.
The Nation: The GOP Tax Cuts Are Such a Blatant Scam That They Might Change the Whole Conversation
On this Tax Day, let's pause for a moment to appreciate how difficult it is to craft a massive tax cut that the American public doesn't like. Republicans recently managed to do just that, passing a tax "reform" scheme that finances over $1 trillion in cuts skewed overwhelmingly toward corporations and the wealthy through deficit spending and is projected to cause 3 million Americans to lose their health coverage as a result.
The Hill Op-Ed: Republican tax win in 2017 could cost control of Congress in 2018
According to the latest Monmouth University Poll, the 2017 tax law may … cost [Republicans] control of Congress.
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The Republican tax bill caps the amount of deductions that may be legally deducted for state and local taxes at $10,000, while raising the standard deduction for a married family to $24,000 … They stand to get hosed, they know it, and they sure are angry.
Think Progress: Here's what the GOP tax bill won't do for middle class families
There are a number of promises Republicans made as they passed the biggest overhaul of the tax code in over 30 years which won't be fulfilled, leaving the middle class out to dry while the corporations and the ultra-rich only get richer.
The Hill: Poll: More say GOP tax law is bad idea than good idea
More people say the GOP tax law is a bad idea than those who say it is a good idea, according to a new poll … An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds just 27 percent of adults think the GOP tax law is a good idea.
Slate: New Jersey Voters Do Not Like the GOP's Tax Law
Republicans hoping to ride their party's tax law to victory this fall may need a contingency plan in New Jersey. A new poll from Monmouth University suggests New Jersey residents of all stripes don't have much love for the legislation House Republicans have billed as the "crown jewel of this Congress" and a "massive centerpiece" of their midterm campaign.
Monmouth pollsters found that … a full majority (56 percent) said the state's taxpayers as a whole will do worse under the new tax code relative to the rest of the nation.
MarketWatch: Poll finds Republican tax cut remains unpopular
More people view the Republican tax overhaul as a bad idea than a good one, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found … The poll also found that Americans see the Democratic Party as better able than the GOP to handle other prominent policy issues, including sexual harassment, health care and gun violence.
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Ever since its enactment, the tax plan has been more unpopular than popular, Journal/NBC News polls found.
Gainesville Sun: Editorial: Tax cuts come at cost for our country
The tax cut law was a wildly irresponsible way to further enrich the wealthiest Americans at the long-term expense of the middle class and poor. Instead of passing tax reform that closed loopholes or investing in infrastructure and other initiatives that provide wide benefits, the tax cuts only expanded an income gap between the richest 1 percent and everyone else.
MarketWatch: Trump Today: President says ‘enjoy' tax cut as poll shows it's unpopular
President Donald Trump marked Tax Day 2018 by trumpeting the law he signed last year, even as the overhaul remains unpopular, according to a new poll.
Trump said on Twitter, "Employment is up, Taxes are DOWN. Enjoy!" and, "So many people are seeing the benefits of the Tax Cut Bill. Everyone is talking, really nice to see!"
Trump's rosy assessment of the law is contradicted, however, by the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The survey found that more people view the Republican tax overhaul as a bad idea than a good one.
The American people are not falling for the GOP's trickery. While Republicans continue their fiscal recklessness with the GOP tax scam, Democrats fight for A Better Deal that focuses on real, bipartisan tax reform that creates jobs, reduces the deficit and puts the middle class first.