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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,716 posts) Wed Nov 8, 2017, 12:55 PM Nov 2017

BREAKING CBO-Chump middle and working class tax increase would add $1.7 trillion to debt

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****BREAKING**** CBO-Chump middle and working class tax increase would add $1.7 trillion to debt (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2017 OP

No reconciliation underpants Nov 2017 #1

they'll make a small change to it to get under $1.5t unblock Nov 2017 #4

Well that about wraps that shit up. The_Casual_Observer Nov 2017 #2

$2.4 trillion high-end tax break, $700 billion tax increase for the rest of us sandensea Nov 2017 #3

Where are the no-penny-to-the-deficit hawks on this one? MaryMagdaline Nov 2017 #5

Its obvious they care nothing about debt. Expect national bankruptcy any week now. BSdetect Nov 2017 #6

No wonder Paul Singer's warming up to Cheeto. sandensea Nov 2017 #8

This is why they want the health care BS so badly Egnever Nov 2017 #7

K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Nov 2017 #9

underpants

(182,922 posts)

1. No reconciliation

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 12:56 PM

Nov 2017

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9817112

unblock

(52,351 posts)

4. they'll make a small change to it to get under $1.5t

Reply to underpants (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 01:05 PM

Nov 2017

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)

2. Well that about wraps that shit up.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 12:57 PM

Nov 2017

what's next? Infrastructure? The wall? Hahahahahah.

sandensea

(21,677 posts)

3. $2.4 trillion high-end tax break, $700 billion tax increase for the rest of us

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 12:58 PM

Nov 2017

And $1.7 trillion in extra debt.

This is so brazen, it would make even Reagan and Dubya blush.

MaryMagdaline

(6,856 posts)

5. Where are the no-penny-to-the-deficit hawks on this one?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 01:07 PM

Nov 2017

Or it that just when Obama's in office.

BSdetect

(8,999 posts)

6. Its obvious they care nothing about debt. Expect national bankruptcy any week now.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 01:09 PM

Nov 2017

drumph's only economic tool.

sandensea

(21,677 posts)

8. No wonder Paul Singer's warming up to Cheeto.

Reply to BSdetect (Reply #6)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 01:10 PM

Nov 2017

You better believe he's waiting in the wings, ready to demand 1000%+ on defaulted U.S. bonds if (God forbid) it comes to that.

Egnever

(21,506 posts)

7. This is why they want the health care BS so badly

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 01:10 PM

Nov 2017

Take health care and give it to corporations . That was the plan all along . Without the health care deal their tax BS blows up the budget.

SunSeeker

(51,734 posts)

9. K & R for exposure.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 01:13 PM

Nov 2017

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