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Evil, done in secret, in darkness, after midnight
By Republicans
2017
Prominent Democrat Elizabeth Warren said: "It's a heist."
Because of a procedural glitch, the bill had to be voted on for a second time in the Republican-dominated House of Representatives. It passed 224 to 201 on Wednesday afternoon.
Democratic leader Chuck Schumer scolded Republicans for talking during his closing argument.
"This is serious stuff," the New York senator said. "We believe you're messing up America."
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted: "Let's call this out for what it is: Government for sale."
Senator Kirstin Gillibrand accused Republicans of having "put their donors before hardworking middle-class families".
Senators Cory Booker, of New Jersey, and Kamala Harris, of California, said the bill was a "travesty".
And Tim Kaine, the Virginia senator who was Hillary Clinton's running mate last year, branded the legislation "highway robbery".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42429424
Simplify taxes, said Trump
For corporations and the wealthiest Americans, the tax bill adds complexities that will make it easier to evade the Internal Revenue Service.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics...x-code-theyre-making-it-way-more-complicated/
Trump Boasts He Has Repealed Obamacare, Does Not Understand How Law Works
Trump recognizes that he has no chance to repeal Obamacare, so he is instead pretending to have killed the law that his base loathes (but which the country as a whole likes quite a bit).
The law is primarily financed by other taxes.
States that want to have a highly functioning marketplace will be able to impose a state-level mandate, though, an outcome that could make insurance cheaper in blue states than red ones.
What’s more, the elimination of the individual mandate closes off any chance Republicans had to replace or even scale back Obamacare. Repealing the mandate was the linchpin of the overall repeal effort. The mandate is the law’s most unpopular element, and repealing it saves a lot of money (because, the Congressional Budget Office assumes, it encouraged people to sign up for coverage, which is subsidized by the government). Republicans had used the savings to help finance their replacement plans for Obamacare.
Trump couldn’t come up with anything terrific to replace Obamacare, or even anything adequate. His old plan, which he broadcast repeatedly as evidence of his genius, was to cripple the law and blame Democrats, who, he said, would “own” it. Now Trump is trying to cripple the law while claiming ownership for himself and his party, with no idea what to do to fix it, and having even less ability to do anything than before.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...repealed-obamacare-doesnt-understand-law.html
Trump tries to claim that he killed Obamacare, at last.
He is telling a lie, again.
Trump claimed that Obamacare is dying. He lied.
Yes, he and his Trump trolls are wounding Obamacare, because it did not fail on its own.
Obamacare still has supporters that will keep it alive.
By Republicans
2017
Prominent Democrat Elizabeth Warren said: "It's a heist."
Because of a procedural glitch, the bill had to be voted on for a second time in the Republican-dominated House of Representatives. It passed 224 to 201 on Wednesday afternoon.
Democratic leader Chuck Schumer scolded Republicans for talking during his closing argument.
"This is serious stuff," the New York senator said. "We believe you're messing up America."
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted: "Let's call this out for what it is: Government for sale."
Senator Kirstin Gillibrand accused Republicans of having "put their donors before hardworking middle-class families".
Senators Cory Booker, of New Jersey, and Kamala Harris, of California, said the bill was a "travesty".
And Tim Kaine, the Virginia senator who was Hillary Clinton's running mate last year, branded the legislation "highway robbery".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42429424
Simplify taxes, said Trump
For corporations and the wealthiest Americans, the tax bill adds complexities that will make it easier to evade the Internal Revenue Service.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics...x-code-theyre-making-it-way-more-complicated/
Trump Boasts He Has Repealed Obamacare, Does Not Understand How Law Works
Trump recognizes that he has no chance to repeal Obamacare, so he is instead pretending to have killed the law that his base loathes (but which the country as a whole likes quite a bit).
The law is primarily financed by other taxes.
States that want to have a highly functioning marketplace will be able to impose a state-level mandate, though, an outcome that could make insurance cheaper in blue states than red ones.
What’s more, the elimination of the individual mandate closes off any chance Republicans had to replace or even scale back Obamacare. Repealing the mandate was the linchpin of the overall repeal effort. The mandate is the law’s most unpopular element, and repealing it saves a lot of money (because, the Congressional Budget Office assumes, it encouraged people to sign up for coverage, which is subsidized by the government). Republicans had used the savings to help finance their replacement plans for Obamacare.
Trump couldn’t come up with anything terrific to replace Obamacare, or even anything adequate. His old plan, which he broadcast repeatedly as evidence of his genius, was to cripple the law and blame Democrats, who, he said, would “own” it. Now Trump is trying to cripple the law while claiming ownership for himself and his party, with no idea what to do to fix it, and having even less ability to do anything than before.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...repealed-obamacare-doesnt-understand-law.html
Trump tries to claim that he killed Obamacare, at last.
He is telling a lie, again.
Trump claimed that Obamacare is dying. He lied.
Yes, he and his Trump trolls are wounding Obamacare, because it did not fail on its own.
Obamacare still has supporters that will keep it alive.
