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Don't let Republicans get away with saying their tax cut created the 'greatest economy ever': MSNBC analyst
September 27, 2021
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stood on the Senate floor Monday to proclaim that no Republican will be voting to raise the debt ceiling.
The debt is from the laws passed under President Donald Trump's administration, which Republicans supported then. Now that the bill for those laws is coming due, it appears the GOP no longer supports the cost of those policies.
Writing for MSNBC, producer Steve Benen specifically cited the lies Republicans are still telling about their tax plan that ultimately cost the country trillions of dollars while not doing anything to improve the economy.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) proclaimed to CNN's Jake Tapper over the weekend that the GOP's tax bill "created the strongest economy of my lifetime. That's just an indisputable fact."
Toomey argued that they shouldn't "undo the very tax regime that helped enable that tremendous economic growth."
But when it comes to that policy, Toomey and his colleagues are refusing to pay the bill for it. If it was so successful, why is the price tag so high? Why does the debt ceiling need to be raised if the tax bill did so much to rebuild the economy? If it was so successful, money would be pouring into the U.S. treasury from the success. Instead, the opposite is true.
"Rehashing the debate over the efficacy of the Republicans' regressive tax breaks from 2017 may seem trivial, but Democrats are currently in the process of deciding whether, and to what degree, Congress should roll back some of these tax cuts," wrote Benen. "If it's 'an indisputable fact' that these tax policies created 'the strongest economy' in generations, and were directly responsible for generating 'tremendous economic growth,' that would be highly relevant information."
Benen went on to cite the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing that the U.S. economy created 3 million jobs in 2014, 2.72 million jobs in 2015, and 2.34 million jobs in 2016. The total is over 8.06 million jobs. Under Trump, however, only 6.55 million jobs were created from 2.11 million jobs in 2017*, 2.31 million jobs in 2018, and 2.13 million jobs in 2019.
Benen closed by asking if centrist Democrats are ready to fight back against this Republican "trickle-down" philosophy with the facts or if they'll continue to ignore Republican's lies, keep their heads down, and simply work to pass the Biden agenda.
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'Privileged' millionaire Joe Manchin blasted for claim jobs bill could create 'entitlement mentality'
September 27, 2021
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) for months has effectively been working to derail President Joe Biden's agenda, by refusing to eliminate the filibuster and by refusing to support Democrats' $3.5 trillion jobs bill.
Like many of the wealthiest Americans, the coronavirus pandemic did not hurt Senator Manchin's net worth. It grew by $1 million from 2018 to 2020, to $8.6 million, leading some on Monday to blast him over remarks he made to reporters Monday about "entitlement mentality" over Biden's $3.5 trillion jobs, infrastructure, and social spending legislation.
"We're just concerned about entitlement mentality versus rewarding mentality and then taking care of those who really can't take care of themselves... there's so much good stuff in there that we're still working diligently," Manchin told reporters, as NBC News' Sahil Kapur reports.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki noted at Monday's daily press briefing, 80 percent of Americans support much of the legislation's critical points.
Many, saying they are tired of Manchin trying to control if not derail the Democratic agenda, are expressing outrage.
West Virginia ranks 2nd in America in reliance on federal tax dollars. Is that the "entitlement mentality" @Sen_JoeManchin is talking about? https://t.co/KkHJeYtoS5
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) September 27, 2021
The real "entitlement mentality" here is men like Manchin who live in a country held together by the free & underpaid labor of women, from their own mothers, to whoever raised their children, to the underpaid care workers will take care of them as they die comfortably in old age. https://t.co/ZCwbZpb1qb
— Erin And A Half Ryan (@morninggloria) September 27, 2021
Joe Manchin isn't concerned about "entitlement mentality," he just hasn't been offered a big enough cut of Biden's spending package yet. https://t.co/cfaemmMGrC
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) September 27, 2021
Anyone using the term"entitlement mentality" shouldn't be a public servant period, let alone a Democratic senator. https://t.co/VfUyiD0KFN
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) September 27, 2021
Jacking up the price of epipens and forcing people to breathe coal dust so you can make millions is the ultimate in entitlement mentality. https://t.co/MNLhWZRzMh
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) September 27, 2021
Daughter was raiding into insurance money from that $100 to $600 Epipen cost raised. And he canned Ms Tandon for raising this issue. We know how deeply he is concerned about America- NONE unless it lines his POCKETS.
— rv (@670rv) September 27, 2021
The father of a price gouger for life saving medicine has thoughts on entitlement mentality. https://t.co/b38I6qnO22
— Dorian Wilde (@portraitwilde) September 27, 2021
If he is so concerned about "entitlement mentality" then the blue states can stop giving funds to West Virginia. Growing up in the south I've known many a Manchin. It's okay for him but not for others. He wants you to believe he's one of the good guys but he's really not.
— #JusticeIsOnTheBallot (@caryn_wallace) September 27, 2021
Entitlement mentality has been debunked by the unemployment benefit cut and lack of change in job numbers
— Rose Benson (@NotoriousRBF) September 27, 2021
doesn't senator houseboat represent an entitlement state?
— Brent Myers (@BrentM1966) September 27, 2021
. Okay, let's talk about the "entitlement mentality" of West Virginians Every year American taxpayers GIVE West Virginia **ONE-THIRD** of the state's entire budget ... just to keep the state's residents out of extreme poverty Why are they entitled to being subsidized by us? https://t.co/KPbioDgoqb
— Immigrants Make America Great (@CenterBeautiful) September 27, 2021
But he's not concerned about corporate, fossil fuel, and coal entitlement mentality!
— Drogon (@drogon_dracarys) September 27, 2021
Great idea in hindsight considering his life as a privileged WASPy heterosexual cisgender man. Can't have everyone expecting to have it as good as he did! #entitlementmentality #JoeManchin #EntitlementPersonified
— Kenny Landes (@kennylandes) September 27, 2021
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Many Republicans are secretly 'thrilled' Trump can't use Twitter to keep 'his boot on their necks': Maggie Haberman
September 27, 2021
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Monday claimed that many Republican lawmakers secretly agree with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) about former President Donald Trump, although they still aren't willing to take their grievances public.
Haberman said that while not all Republicans secretly harbored dislike of Trump, the number who do is a significant number.
"What [Cheney] says about the number of lawmakers who also resent him, who feel as if he has his boot on their necks, who feel as if they're going to get threatened and are thrilled that he doesn't have his Twitter feed anymore, that's real too," she said.
That said, these Republicans were still worried about angering their own voters by crossing the former president.
"At the moment, the party's base is with the former president, and contrary to predictions that that was going to change when he left office, we haven't seen that," she said. "If anything, we have seen the number of Republicans who have, you know, bought into his falsehoods about the last election have also grown."
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Republicans are secretly 'thrilled' Trump can't use Twitter to keep 'his boot on their necks' www.youtube.com
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