11-22-2017, 12:12 PM
I think Trump and company know that their proposal to repeal the Obamacare mandate and thus seriously reduce Medicare/Medicaid funding won't pass. It's a negotiating prop, in my opinion.
I can see a Trump tweet on the horizon, "Okay, okay, you've twisted our arms......we tried to repeal an element of Obamacare, but we'll take it out if you vote yes and let us keep that repeal of the estate tax, which doesn't benefit me, my heirs, and the uber rich at all."
That "it won't benefit me at all" bit Trump's peddling is a lie, of course. It would benefit the billionaire class bigly and virtually nobody else. That money could be much better spent on projects that benefit everyone; I hope the estate tax repeal is rejected.
The proposed SALT repeal would also really hurt people who are already contributing more to the tax pool than others. I hope that gets chopped from the final draft too.
I can see a Trump tweet on the horizon, "Okay, okay, you've twisted our arms......we tried to repeal an element of Obamacare, but we'll take it out if you vote yes and let us keep that repeal of the estate tax, which doesn't benefit me, my heirs, and the uber rich at all."
That "it won't benefit me at all" bit Trump's peddling is a lie, of course. It would benefit the billionaire class bigly and virtually nobody else. That money could be much better spent on projects that benefit everyone; I hope the estate tax repeal is rejected.
The proposed SALT repeal would also really hurt people who are already contributing more to the tax pool than others. I hope that gets chopped from the final draft too.