The American people want us to stop spending. And so let’s just give them some certainty. Let’s extend the tax – the existing tax cuts. And then let’s give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.
My healthcare plan puts more money into average families’ pockets than the Bush tax cuts… He’s got a lousy tax cut. It’s only good for the super wealthy. I’ve got a tax cut that will help ordinary people.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts slashes taxes on the very wealthy and kills regulations with the idea that rich businessmen will invest their money into the economy to support workers – the same idea that Republicans embraced in the 1920s.
There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can’t say they didn’t work.
Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded ‘supply side’ tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.
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