“In between jamming through a $1.5 trillion tax bill that explodes the deficit and a potential second round of tax breaks for the wealthiest individuals, Republicans are holding a show vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment. The rank hypocrisy is stunning, and this is nothing more than a pretext for gutting funding for education, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid”
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“Paul Ryan and his Republican colleagues in Congress looted from the American people to line their pockets and further enrich their wealthy donors. That Ryan is retiring after forcing the TrumpTax through Congress—a bill said to be the GOP’s signature legislative achievement—shows just how unpopular this tax law is.”
“SANTA FE — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told a group of mostly educators in Santa Fe on Friday that President Donald Trump’s tax plan approved by a Republican Congress is nothing but a scam. Pelosi, D-Calif., was joined by New Mexico Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, National Education Association New Mexico Executive Director Charles Bowyer, and Sandoval County Treasurer Laura Montoya for a discussion at the NEA’s Santa Fe office as part of the nationwide “Repeal the Trump Tax” tour.”
“A new ad from the liberal group Not One Penny targets Rep. Mark Amodei for voting in favor of the $1.5 trillion tax cut passed by Republicans late last year and calls on him to vote to repeal it.”
“Tim Hogan, spokesman for the liberal group Not One Penny, called the arguments in the paper ridiculous. "These buybacks line the pockets of CEOs whose pay is tied to corporate stock prices and shareholders already benefiting from record corporate profits," he said. "This is just another reminder that the Trump tax overwhelmingly benefits the top 1 percent at the expense of the middle class.”