Trump told friends at Mar-a-Lago 'you all just got a lot richer' after tax bill passed: report

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  1. Professor Peabody

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    Epstein......isn't he the guy that took Bill Clinton to Lolita Island?
     
  2. Denizen

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    After Trump had finished with Lolita.
     
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    So Bill took sloppy seconds?
     
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    Well that's credible evidence two unnamed people telling CBS news here say
     
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    How is it 25 times more

    1.4% - 4.3% equals 2.9% more

    Surly you don't suggest a guy making 50 grand a year gets a free check of $21,000 dollars of some one eles's money ?

    I wonder though how come a guy making 50 grand didn't get at least a 4.3% cut?
     
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    They just keep more of their own money and we spend less...
     
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    So basically the new tax code makes the structure more progressive since the top marginal rate reductions are smaller than the lower rate reductions and it knocks more off the tax roles. Democrats, now the party of the rich, think this is a disaster like Pelosi who is worth close to 200 million. Only 4.8 estimated will see a tax increase but mostly in the rich democrat controlled states.

    95.2% of Americans will be ‘richer’ and that will start showing up in February paychecks making the lies the democrats are spreading apparent. Will that stop them from class warfare, hardly, it’s all they have.
     
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  8. Denizen

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    Trump's "wealthy friends" didn't want to be identified as either a friend of Trump's or beneficiaries of the tax bill.
     
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    Since 95.2% of Americans will be richer, Trump is again correct.
     
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    Un-named, anonymous sources are the bread and butter of the left wing propaganda machine.
     
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    On top of that the democrats plan is to resist anything Trump which led to their having no say in the tax bill. It is funny that they wanted to save the SALT deduction which only benefits the rich in high taxed democrat controlled states.
     
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    You are wrong. Americans can only be richer if productivity increases faster than prices. That doesn't appear to be happening or appear to be likely.

    There isn't a step change in wealth from the tax bill, just a redistribution of the wealth of the nation in favor of the wealthy.

    Paying out to the wealthy from increased debt will not make Americans richer.

    In recent times the US $ has started to decline against other currencies and this will accelerate with increased budget deficits.
     
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    Our foreign poster just pulled three names out of a hat

    But no verification
     
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    LOL, another one that does not understand you cannot redistribute wealth you leave in the hands of the earners.
     
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    Socialist leaders do understand that they must tax the rich so that they can give it to democrat voters at the bottom
     
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    There's no proof that he said this.
     
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    Just multiple sources from a publication with historical credibility.
     
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    Just more unnamed unidentified anonymous sources. Fiction.

    Anyone can write fiction.
     
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    Somebody has to pay for it, since the rich are getting richer who in the hell do you think is paying for it.
     
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    All of Trump's 'friends' want to remain anonymous.
     
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    It may not be yacht money, but it will pay for a very well appointed express cruiser or a deluxe sportfisherman.
     
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    So does most of his cabinet.

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    The Cabinet members carrying out President Donald Trump’s orders to shake up the federal government are doing so under an unusual layer of secrecy — often shielding their schedules from public view, keeping their travels under wraps and refusing to identify the people and groups they’re meeting.



    A POLITICO review of the practices of 17 Cabinet heads found that at least eight routinely decline to release information on their planned schedules or travels — information that was more widely available during the Obama and George W. Bush administrations. Four other departments — Agriculture, Labor, Homeland Security and Education — provide the secretaries’ schedules only sporadically or with few details. The Treasury Department began releasing weekly schedules for Secretary Steven Mnuchin only in November."

    https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/26/trump-cabinet-agenda-secret-319046
     
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    "Trump told friends at Mar-a-Lago 'you all just got a lot richer' after tax bill passed: report"

    but but but, I thought rich people were gonna pay more according to Trump
     
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    oh geez, the right says 500k a year is not much income, ask 90% of America and they will disagree with you
     
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    exactly, the rich have many tax loopholes that the middle class do not benefit from, would love it if Trump released his taxes, we saw Romney's
     

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