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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 08:26 PM Dec 2017

Collins announces support for GOP tax bill

Source: Bangor Daily News

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said Monday that she will vote for the Republican tax bill package when it returns to the Senate later this week.

The bill contains three amendments that she sought, but repeals the Affordable Care Act mandate that individuals have health insurance or pay a penalty and it’s uncertain whether House Republicans will go along with offsetting changes supported by Collins.

The nearly 1,100-page bill from a House and Senate conference committee was released on Friday. Collins was one of the final Republican holdouts on the bill, which would reduce individual tax rates and lower the corporate tax from 35 percent to 21 percent.

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that an earlier Senate tax plan would increase the federal deficit by $1 trillion over 10 years. A preliminary analysis on Monday from the conservative Tax Foundation pegged the plan with a lower price tag, but it still cast doubt on Republican claims that the tax cuts would pay for themselves.

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Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2017/12/18/politics/collins-announces-support-for-gop-tax-bill/



Yay Suzie

To mortgage Maine kids ye unborn.

To kill SS and Medicare for Maine Seniors today

To give fat Cats tax breaks they don't need.

FUCK YOU
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Collins announces support for GOP tax bill (Original Post) jpak Dec 2017 OP
She is an idiot. nt avebury Dec 2017 #1
Despicable. dalton99a Dec 2017 #2
Is this passing through reconciliation? vi5 Dec 2017 #3
Dont worry. They will fix it by gutting SS and Medicaid. dhol82 Dec 2017 #5
Follow the bdamomma Dec 2017 #4
They're all falling in line. Shocked. Va Lefty Dec 2017 #6
Party before People...84 Arrested As Protesters Plea With Susan Collins: 'Vote No' SummerSnow Dec 2017 #7
Whore, not sorry for the language. kacekwl Dec 2017 #8
But she's cheap whore atreides1 Dec 2017 #11
Wonder whether Bannon was going to primary challenge her question everything Dec 2017 #9
Of course she did. TomCADem Dec 2017 #10
 

vi5

(13,305 posts)
3. Is this passing through reconciliation?
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 08:54 PM
Dec 2017

I keep asking this but am not really getting any answers.

If it is passing through reconciliation doesn't it have to be deficit neutral?
I keep hearing/seeing about how much this adds to the deficit. Is it because of benefit/safety net cuts? I keep hearing they are going to do that "once the deficit balloons" or goes up.

But doesn't it have to be deficit neutral to go through reconciliation? Or are the cuts built in?

Or are they ramming this through the same way they did Gorsuch which is pretty much just doing whatever the fuck they want? Are Democrats holding them to having to do this through reconciliation?

kacekwl

(7,017 posts)
8. Whore, not sorry for the language.
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 10:55 PM
Dec 2017

This dosnt apply to only whore Collins but all the other whores in government. Male and female.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
11. But she's cheap whore
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:10 AM
Dec 2017

At least Corker is getting something for his vote...all Collins is getting, is a promise that everyone knows McConnell has no power to make, much less keep!!!

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
10. Of course she did.
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 01:46 AM
Dec 2017

Trump and Republicans in the Senate treat her like a doormat, and despite her posturing, she still ends up selling out her constituents.

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