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President Donald Trump claimed in a November speech promoting his tax plan that his focus “is on helping the folks who work in the mailrooms and the machine shops of America. … The people that like me best.”

"According to the Tax Policy Center (TPC), the top 1 percent of families by income would receive a larger share of the bill’s cuts in the first year than the bottom 60 percent of families combined. And in fact, state-level data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) show that in 2019, the bill would give $5 billion more to foreign investors who own corporate stock than the combined families in the bottom 80 percent of the income distribution in every state that voted for President Trump."

The Final Tax Bill Is a Bigger Win for Foreign Investors Than the Entire Working and Middle Class in Trump States - Center for American Progress

 

It's not mocking the recipients; it's mocking the corporations for their self-congratulory statements.

 

@QYFW and other self-loathing, middle-class conservatives don't have a problem with that. Wealth inequality creates incentives for competition (over the leftover crumbs).

 

No self-respecting country is going to make decisions based on hot-air threats from Donald Trump. The rest of the world is just waiting till he's out an office, the way you hold your breath till a fart dissipates.

 

Says the guy whose country abstained rather than voting decisively one way or the other.

 

Of course we abstained. Why should we answer Trump's call to do anything? This will all be over soon.

Might plus moral authority is a powerful combination. Might alone? That's just a bully. Nobody likes a bully.

 

35 nations abstained, and another 21 were absent.

So, a lot of countries did not vote for this resolution, including countries like Canada and Mexico.

Canada among 35 abstaining from UN vote condemning American embassy move to Jerusalem

 

LOL. Your county backed down to Trump, and is terrified about the NAFTA negotiations, as thousands of Canadian jobs are poised to move across the boarder to the US.

 

That’s a lot of asses for Trump to kick at his age.

 

Yep. Thankfully he knows how do it.

 

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