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The odd things tucked into

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 06:29:06 +0000

The odd things tucked into the GOP tax plan

By Hayley Briskey @ Aixos.com, 14 hrs. ago.

[....] These are small examples of what got slipped in the bill last-minute as the Senate vote neared, and some reveal senators' pet projects back in their home states.

Odd amendments included in the tax plan:

[....]

Sen. Cory Gardner

Exempts kombucha, a fermented tea, from alcoholic beverage excise taxes and regulations.

Allow deductions and credits relating to expenditures in connection with legal marijuana sales.

[....]

“The hypocrisy is astounding”

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 05:25:49 +0000

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“The hypocrisy is astounding”: this tax bill shows the GOP’s debt concerns were pure fraud

Republicans are proving themselves nihilists.

By Ezra Klein @ Vox.com, Dec 2

Even here, seeing the same

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 04:38:25 +0000

In reply to Some senators began sharing

Even here, seeing the same complainf with the exact same text maybe hurts more than helps. I would have liked to se 12 examples - in one way this example is outrageous, in another, it's just "read the goddam written text already, it ain't that tough, not pretty but stop whining".

My statement on the tax

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 04:36:42 +0000

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My statement on the tax reform legislation: pic.twitter.com/LdTQRezdlO
— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) December 1, 2017

Some senators began sharing

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 04:34:52 +0000

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Some senators began sharing images of the legislation, which included handwritten additions along the margins.

In a separate video, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, held up a stack of legislative text and tried to read the changes that the Republicans had made. She struggled to make sense of the garbled language and lamented that she could not possibly read the bill in the hour or so before the expected vote.

No, I haven’t had time to read the 500-page #GOPTaxScam bill that we’re voting on tonight. I couldn’t read it if I tried – and I did. pic.twitter.com/WgoAT6rxuo
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 2, 2017

From

A Hasty, Hand-Scribbled Tax Bill Sets Off an Outcry

By Jim Tankersly & Alan Rappeport @ NYTimes.com, Dec. 1

So the GOP leadership got all

rmrd0000 — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 02:14:32 +0000

In reply to Since no Democrats were

So the GOP leadership got all but one Republican to sign on to a bill most Republicans supported. This made the bill more favorable for Democratic Party members. .........Alrighty then. Democrats should be rejoicing. The poor and the middle class should be glad.

Talk about lipstick on a pig.

Since no Democrats were

NCD — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 22:09:35 +0000

In reply to P.S. you and rmrd are

Since no Democrats were consulted on it's content, were involved writing it, or voted for it, I realize it satisfied Republican causes not Democrat.

What were the last-minute

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 21:31:56 +0000

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What were the last-minute changes to the Senate tax bill?

Dec 2, 2017 4:10 pm ES @ PBS News Hour

P.S. you and rmrd are

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:59:59 +0000

In reply to In case you didn't notice,

P.S. you and rmrd are certainly entitled to rant on your favorite political hobby horses wherever you want, and I have no problem with that, either. I just don't cotton to being made a straw man. Leave me out of it.

And I think it's unfair to Drum as well, and The Hill piece that I posted; they are about the effect of pork barrel amendments and about lobbyists fine tuning big legislation to their benefit and away from intent.

The result of this happening actually may have made the bill less antithetical to Dem causes, don't you realize that? They started out wanting to make a very conservative economics bill, and I don't think that is what they are going to end up with.

Even they don't know, that's the point. The balkers mostly got something they wanted, that's all we know.

My comment and the story are

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:50:04 +0000

In reply to We are in an era of both

My comment and the story are not at all about the bill. They are about the pork barrel amendments given to balking Senators in order to get them to sign on to the bill.