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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 09:46 AM Dec 2017

Republicans fret over tax bill's unpopularity

Source: The Hill




BY ALEXANDER BOLTON AND NAOMI JAGODA - 12/11/17 06:00 AM EST

Republican lawmakers are concerned about how their tax bill is being viewed by the public and say they need to do a better job of selling it to middle-class and low-income voters.

A CBS News poll conducted last week found that 53 percent of people nationwide disapprove of the GOP tax bill and only 35 percent approve.

While support for the bill was strong among self-identified Republicans, according to the poll, 52 percent of independents and a whopping 84 percent of Democrats disapprove of the legislation.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Friday warned that the Republican Party cannot become identified with the “country club-big business image,” citing a famous speech President Reagan gave in 1977 using those same words.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/364054-republicans-fret-over-tax-bills-unpopularity

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Republicans fret over tax bill's unpopularity (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP
Too late, Marco! 50 Shades Of Blue Dec 2017 #1
Waaaaay too late! workinclasszero Dec 2017 #24
Just need to do a better job in christx30 Dec 2017 #2
The Repugs think they just need to do a better job of "selling the Bill" LastLiberal in PalmSprings Dec 2017 #4
It was put together Scarsdale Dec 2017 #11
They'd better do more than fret. Their bus has left the terminal. marble falls Dec 2017 #3
Truly clueless in all respects..n/t monmouth4 Dec 2017 #5
Lol they are soooo clueless. Faux pas Dec 2017 #6
They could care less about public opinion. The can rig the voting system Irish_Dem Dec 2017 #7
Americans understand they're being financially raped by billionaires and corporations. CousinIT Dec 2017 #8
Maybe they should reflect a while on why it's so unpopular. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2017 #9
Total fake! lark Dec 2017 #10
Theres a great song that best describes this junk bill nwduke Dec 2017 #12
They need to do more than fret RandomAccess Dec 2017 #13
"Republicans fret"... Oh, dear, those poor men! Fretting! What pain they must feel! mpcamb Dec 2017 #14
The gop thought Scarsdale Dec 2017 #15
Well kwalter66 Dec 2017 #25
Yes. It's the sales job that's the real problem. tanyev Dec 2017 #16
November 6, 2018, GOP, You're Fired. harun Dec 2017 #17
Kinda like, American's losing health insurance fret over cancer diagnosis? jalan48 Dec 2017 #18
And less than 1% are ecstatic. nt C Moon Dec 2017 #19
Why do a third approve? Way too high. spooky3 Dec 2017 #20
When have they ever cared about public opinion? SHRED Dec 2017 #21
Dear GOP TygrBright Dec 2017 #22
Do they really? DFW Dec 2017 #23
EXACTLY kwalter66 Dec 2017 #26
Before they did that, they'd have to say that Obama... Dave Starsky Dec 2017 #27
If Moore loses in Alabama I suspect they will fret even moore still_one Dec 2017 #28
Plus--If He Wins, They Will Have To Wear Him As Their Poster Child! DoctorJoJo Dec 2017 #30
If Moore loses in Alabama........ DFW Dec 2017 #31
Keep polishing and rewrapping that turd dalton99a Dec 2017 #29

christx30

(6,241 posts)
2. Just need to do a better job in
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 10:00 AM
Dec 2017

letting low income people know that they'll get a good tax break on their private jets. And all of those middle class people that own wineries? Ca-Ching!
Good luck GOP!

4. The Repugs think they just need to do a better job of "selling the Bill"
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 10:07 AM
Dec 2017

The idea that what they need to do is take the time to write a better Bill never occurs to them. Or take more than two weeks to put together the most radical rewrite of the tax law since Ronald Reagan. No matter what they think, people aren't stupid (although they sometimes do vote against their own interests). The more time this Bill has time to sit in the daylight of public scrutiny, the more it stinks. And there's not enough lipstick in the world to dress up this pig.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
11. It was put together
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 11:17 AM
Dec 2017

by the gop. with NO input from democratic lawmakers. Behind closed doors, just like their "leader" assaults women, and their hero Moore assaults kids. They know dmn well it is a disaster for regular working class citizens, that is why all the secrecy. I wonder if the Koch brothers and Addelson were in the room when it was being devised?

Faux pas

(14,681 posts)
6. Lol they are soooo clueless.
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 10:21 AM
Dec 2017

They need to do a better job of selling it? They need to get an injection of humanity. Sheesh

Irish_Dem

(47,131 posts)
7. They could care less about public opinion. The can rig the voting system
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 10:23 AM
Dec 2017

and win elections despite being unpopular.

CousinIT

(9,247 posts)
8. Americans understand they're being financially raped by billionaires and corporations.
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 10:23 AM
Dec 2017

That shit won't "sell" no matter how much glittery wrapping they put on it. The shit sandwich inside STILL. STINKS.

lark

(23,105 posts)
10. Total fake!
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 10:42 AM
Dec 2017

He says this, while at the same time saying w ehave to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, so he talks out of both sides of his mouth. He doesn't want to change the bill, doesn't want to give $ back to working class and poor, just wants to say it helps the miiddle class. So actual actions to hurt people don't matter, but lie lie lie about it to create false perceptions and fake news.

nwduke

(350 posts)
12. Theres a great song that best describes this junk bill
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 11:19 AM
Dec 2017

It’s by Neil Young and it’s called “Piece of Crap” especially when Ayn Rand, I mean, Paul Ryan talks about cutting Medicare and Social Security to offset deficits created by cutting taxes to the .001% and corporation’s! Vote these clowns out! It’s imperative!

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
13. They need to do more than fret
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 11:24 AM
Dec 2017

There's a lot needs to be taken out of that thing. It's a monstrous attack on almost all Americans.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
15. The gop thought
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 11:38 AM
Dec 2017

that with their guy (with Putin's help) was installed in the WH, they had a blank check to do whatever their owners wanted them to do. Imagine if the dems, had re-written the tax code behind closed doors, without gop members input? They would have been all over Faux and all the Sunday gop shows, screaming bloody murder. How gullible do they think we are? We know what their agenda is, and we are pushing back.

 

kwalter66

(80 posts)
25. Well
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 03:54 PM
Dec 2017

They think "we" are incredibly gullible and stupid. In fact, they are counting on it. And by the fact that incumbents keep getting elected and we have a total disaster in the WH, I'd say their bets have been correct.

TygrBright

(20,762 posts)
22. Dear GOP
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 12:41 PM
Dec 2017

::clears throat::

::hums for note::

~ "You are lying sacks of crap!

You are lying sacks of crap!

You are lying, steaming, stinking, nastyyyyyyy....





Sacks of liquid crap!" ~


::takes bow::

::strolls offstage::

cheerfully,
Bright

DFW

(54,405 posts)
23. Do they really?
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 12:43 PM
Dec 2017

I have to wonder. They have Fox Noise to hammer into the heads of their believing millions that whatever they do is just fine. If they were to propose a law requiring everyone whose last name started with the first ten letters of the alphabet has to be injected with the AIDS virus, Republicans with names from Abbott to Johnson would form lines around the country, patiently waiting with their sleeves already rolled up.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
27. Before they did that, they'd have to say that Obama...
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 04:13 PM
Dec 2017

Made it ILLEGAL to inject themselves with the AIDS virus, and that President Trump overturned that law in order to help make America great again!

DFW

(54,405 posts)
31. If Moore loses in Alabama........
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 08:01 PM
Dec 2017

I suspect there will be a LOT of yelling over a few secure Republican phone lines along the lines of, "what part of my simple instructions did you NOT understand?"

McTurtle will state his disappointment, but he will be walking around as if a half ton of weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

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