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House Republicans have released the details of their tax giveaway to the wealthy and big corporations, paid for by everyone else.
Call your elected representatives today and tell them to vote NO on the Trump/GOP Tax and Budget Scheme:
1-800-998-0180
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If Paul Ryan was concerned with the national debt he would not have voted for the GOP tax scam which added $1.5 trillion in debt. What makes matters worse is that republicans are blaming the rising debt on “entitlement” programs; a signal that they will try to cut them.
There’s a reason critics are calling the GOP’s proposed repeal of the medical expense deduction “anti-senior.”
But listen carefully and you can hear the whistle blowing on another train barreling down the tracks.
Call it the Slash Medicare Express. The whistle is still a bit faint, but it is sending a clear warning signal.
A 2018 budget blueprint approved by Congress late last month would reduce Medicare spending by $473 billion over 10 years compared with the current baseline projection, and proposes $1.3 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, various Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits and cost sharing subsidies and other health spending. Republicans need the spending reductions to make room for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts, mostly for corporations and wealthy households.
The budget plan does not include the specifics on how these cuts will be achieved. But previous Republican plans for Medicaid - the joint federal and state health insurance program for lower-income people and children - would have been disastrous for millions of older Americans.
via Reuters.
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By passing their Robin Hood-in-Reverse tax legislation today, House Republicans have sent a crystal-clear message: the elderly, disabled, poor, and working class are no longer part of the GOP’s vision for America.
This craven giveaway to the wealthy and big corporations at the expense of everyone else flies in the face of public opinion, basic decency, and good old common sense.
Republicans in the House and Senate have taken aim at entitlement spending in recent days as Congress works to get the tax reform plan on President Trump’s desk by the end of the year. The House passed a final version of the plan on Wednesday.
“We’re going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said earlier this month.
“We have a welfare system that’s trapping people in poverty and effectively paying people not to work,” Ryan added. “We’ve got to work on that.”
via The Hill.
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Unless you’re a multinational corporation or someone with a yacht, there’s a lot not to like in the GOP’s tax “reform” plan, which the party wants to ram through Congress by the end of the year – even more to despise if you’re retired, going to retire or underinsured.
To pay for this runaway train of tax goodies for global corporations and the ultra-wealthy, the GOP is raising taxes on the Middle Class and refuses to address the long-term funding shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare. Neither the House nor Senate plan addresses this issue.
via Forbes.
This year’s 1.3% #SocialSecurity cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is not enough to meet seniors’ rising living costs. Older Americans need a fairer inflation formula now! https://www.ncpssm.org/campaigns/boost-social-security-now/
