USA Today: Tax cuts the GOP will regret
The USA Today Editorial Board had some cautionary words for the GOP today on their unpopular tax scam that raises taxes on 78 million Americans, takes health care away from 13 million, and adds $1.7 trillion to the national debt in order to give tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans and corporations. Key excerpts:
“We won’t crystal-ball what happens in upcoming elections. But it is impossible not to see great danger in the GOP calculus at work here.”
“The tax measure is — to put it mildly — wildly unpopular. Just 32% of Americans support it, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll. Forty-eight percent oppose it. A Quinnipiac poll even found that voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans on tax matters, a substantial departure from previous attitudes.”
“In fact, if there is a significant domestic law that was as unpopular at the time of its consideration, we can’t find it.”
“Republican lawmakers are not blind to this. They read polls. They know that these kinds of measures tend to get less popular once voters focus on what’s in them. And yet they gamely soldier on, talking up the bill as if in a dramatic reading of The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
“The tax measure is — to put it mildly — wildly unpopular. Just 32% of Americans support it, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll. Forty-eight percent oppose it. A Quinnipiac poll even found that voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans on tax matters, a substantial departure from previous attitudes.”
“In fact, if there is a significant domestic law that was as unpopular at the time of its consideration, we can’t find it.”
“Republican lawmakers are not blind to this. They read polls. They know that these kinds of measures tend to get less popular once voters focus on what’s in them. And yet they gamely soldier on, talking up the bill as if in a dramatic reading of The Emperor’s New Clothes.”