{"id":30814,"date":"2017-12-20T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30814"},"modified":"2017-12-20T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:39:33","slug":"the-way-forward-on-tax-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/20\/the-way-forward-on-tax-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way Forward on Tax Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a done deal.  Less than five minutes ago, the House passed the Republican Tax Scam, and it’s on the way to their Fuhrer’s desk.  For the way forward, we have a good head start, because the Republican Tax Scam is more unpopular than any tax increase has been.  Moving along, we need to hang this albatross on the neck of every Republican lawmaker at every level of government, as well as every Republican donor and corporate criminal, whose greedy threats drove passage of this disaster.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Foremost on many activists\u2019 minds is how to make politicians rue the day they voted for this scam. The folks who organized the big Tax March last April are about to launchrepealthetrumptax.org<\/a> [sic<\/em>] to coordinate 100 days of \u201caccountability\u201d events around the country, beginning in early January. Their aim: Make a \u201cyea\u201d vote on this stinker a mark of shame for candidates trying to get reelected in 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n

We should also be working to hold corporations that supported the tax bill accountable. Lobby groups representing nearly every large firm in the country, from the Chamber of Commerce to the Business Roundtable, fought full-throttle for this monstrosity, spewing one absurd claim after another.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, according to Marketwatch, corporations have been preparing<\/a> to spend their tax savings not on job-creating investments or wage hikes but on stock buybacks, which will inflate the value of their CEOs\u2019 stock-based pay…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow<\/a> gives us some excellent background on this mess.<\/font><\/p>\n