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Yes, abolishing the estate tax benefits earners -- people who earned their parents. The arrogance of the American wealthy and their paid lackeys defies belief.

 

This is the party that invaded Iraq on a lie, broke it into a million little pieces, crashed the economy into the mountain and now pretended it didn't do it after it took more than a decade to just start crawling out of the rubble.

It's a party that was able to question the citizenship of the President of the United States without any repercussions and allowed a white nationalist revival to fester under the surface while the first African-American president was in office because it was too scared of fracturing the alliances it needed to regain the White House.

It's a a party that is in power less than a decade after it made all those mistakes, Bush-era economic and foreign policy intact. They've allowed a mentally ill incompetent to lead it all.

It's a party that engineered and maintained a gerrymandered map along with voting restrictions so impenetrable and ironclad that even an electoral uprising would be muffled to the point that taking back both the Senate and House is virtually impossible for at least another half dozen years.

They don't pay for what they do. Stop waiting for catharsis at the ballot box. That's the stuff of The West Wing.

 

Deplorables.
https://nypost.com/2017/11/30/walmart-yanks-shirt-threatening-to-kill-journalists/

 

If the economy does eventually have a correction, what is the GOP going to be able to say? That they need more tax cuts for the wealthy?

 

Seen that line a few dozen times . . . on my Vol message board.

 

Wait till 55% of the votes are cast for Democratic House candidates in 2018 and that leads to a narrow Republican majority.

 

See Oklahoma the last 10 years for what's about to happen nationally.

 

The Dems really should just be repeating "Kansas, Kansas, Kansas," whenever they're asked about this.

Instead, they repeat the usual rhetoric which gets tuned out by the voters because they speak more than three words at a time.

 

Since 2000, Republicans have controlled each house of Congress and the Presidency twice while receiving a minority of the votes (six separate incidents in total).

The reverse has happened zero times.

Every time they win, they re-rig the rules a little more in their favor. They've got it to the point now that Democrats winning the popular vote in the House by 10% may not be enough, and that's with voter suppression techniques designed to make sure that the people most likely to vote Democrat have the hardest path to voting.

 

Derp, you're right. I meant Kansas.

Governor and Republican supermajority declare that they are going to use the state as a grand experiment to prove that tax cuts stimulate the economy.

The economy promptly crashes, continues to stay in the tank for years.

Republicans finally start saying to governor "maybe this isn't working." Governor deflects and whatabouts. Nothing gets fixed. The state is one of the worst shapes in the nation.

 

I think my condescension was far kinder than what @The Big Ragu routinely experiences when he lays out the economically informed version ("mal-investment" a la Austrian School economics) of @Michael_ Gee's jejune tribalism ("the wrong people are getting the money so they'll make bad investments and doom the economy"). At least I didn't call him a "fetishist" or refer to his "dumb-ass worldview."