Senate Passes Sweeping Republican Tax Overhaul Bill

[Gman]

Senate Passes Sweeping Republican Tax Overhaul Bill

Senators voted 51-49, as Republicans approved the nearly 500-page bill in the early morning hours after lawmakers received a rewritten version, which contained significant changes from the original bill that passed two Senate panels last month along party lines. The last-minute revisions prompted an outcry from Democrats, who said it was impossible — and irresponsible — for lawmakers to read and digest a significant piece of legislation in such a short period of time.

Speaking on the Senate floor ahead of the vote, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, called the Republican approach “a process and a product that no one can be proud of and everyone should be ashamed of.”

One has to wonder what kind of bloat and special interests are in that mess. It's not hypocritical at all of the Dems to be whining about a big bill when they jammed Obamacare down our throats without even reading the damn thing.

Hopefully it's an improvement, but the devil is in the detail.

[DOC]

Unless every line says. Repeal this rule. I don't trust it.

[kidicarus13]

If Schumer is speaking out against it, I'm all for it.

[wctriumph]

Whatever it ends up being, I am sure that I will get screwed again.

[ray1970]

Whatever it ends up being, I am sure that I will get screwed again.

Like and agree.

[crays]

I don't know any more about it than the rest of you, but what I did catch, watching the local networks spews the other night:

Dims screeching in protest about breaks for "regular folks" expiring, while breaks for "the rich" and big business not expiring.

The Rub: THEY DON'T EXPIRE FOR TEN YEARS!

Sure, sure, know one will ever change the tax code again, ever. Sheesh. But it's that kind of demonstrating the low info crowd eats up and responds to.

Got to rally those troops for mid-terms next year... By any and all means possible, honest or not.

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[Irving]

Seems to me that a good tax break that affects everyone across the board will always give a bigger break to the rich because they make more money and pay more taxes. That's just math, yet there is always complaining about it.

[Zundfolge]

Until the 16th amendment is repealed and the Federal Reserve shuttered, this is all just re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic ... that doesn't mean I won't enjoy sitting in the chairs while we wait for the iceberg.

[SideShow Bob]

“You don’t need to read it, just vote it in......”

Where have we heard that before ?

[roberth]

Now the House and Senate hash it out, hopefully President Trump will have a bill to sign before Christmas.