Manchin Didn’t Just Shiv Biden’s Agenda, He Whacked Biden’s Central Campaign Promise Too

[22lcidw]

Right moron.

'Roughshod'
That's what the GQP has been doing.
They wont even pay for their debt, they accrued when Trump was in office.

Trump shut down the government for 35 days because of his vanity wall, something Trump promised Mexico was paying for.

Trump remarked, "I am proud to shut down the government for border security ... I will be the one to shut [the government] down. I'm not going to blame you for it ... I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down."

Trump then steals $2.5 billion from the pentagon for his vanity wall.

WTF? Not one GQP nut voted for the bill that would help their constituents.
Seems Manchin needs it most.

Rank	State	Population	Median Income
1	Mississippi	2,984,418	$45,081
2	West Virginia	1,817,305	$46,711
3	New Mexico	2,092,454	$49,754
4	Louisiana	4,664,362	$49,469

Sure moron.
That's all the GQP does is obstruct, they've doing that decades,
Then when they get home to their constituents, brag about all the $$$, that they brought into their district.

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said it pained her to vote against the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.

But in the weeks that followed, the first-term Republican issued a news release celebrating more than $3.7 million from the package that went to community health centers in her district as one of her “achievements.” She said she prided herself on “bringing federal funding to the district and back into the pockets of taxpayers.”

GOP lawmakers have been especially bullish about promoting the rescue plan’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which devoted $28.6 billion to the struggling industry. Applications for the program opened this week.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., topped a group of at least eight Republicans who have encouraged constituents to apply in recent days. The others included Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.; Greg Pence, R-Ind.; Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash.; Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas; Troy Balderson, R-Ohio; and Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio.

Every single one voted against it.

Beyond funding for restaurants, Republicans have also touted millions of dollars in health care grants allocated to their districts in the latest stimulus plan.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., in late March pointed to millions of dollars in such grants on social media, saying he was “proud” to see the taxpayer dollars returning to his district.

Cawthorne voted against it.

Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., issued a news release at roughly the same time to promote more than $41 million spread across 12 health care centers in his district.

“I am glad that this funding has been secured,” he said, neglecting to mention how it was secured.

'Party before country', it's in the GQP, DNA.

The Federal Government extracts massive resources from the general population and sends some of it back. It keeps expanding the process. Of course we argue who gets what is sent back.

 

[Smokin' OP]

LOL! You don't have a clue how much better it is to spend money in the productive economy than it is to give to the wasteful inefficient government, do you?

Sure just give it to corporations, dipshit.
THEY know how to use it.

June 28 2018
The Republican tax reform package that was supposed to raise wages and spur hiring has instead funded a record stock buyback and dividend spree, benefiting investors and company executives over workers.

President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion bill in December last year, saying the corporate tax cut would make it favorable for companies to bring back into the U.S. cash stashed in foreign operations.


"More than 70 percent of this [tax cut] will be returned to workers," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a January press conference after the bill came into effect.

However, companies have instead used the extra cash to spend billions of dollars buying back their own stock, boosting the value of shares held by investors.

Over the past year, S&P 500 companies have given their shareholders a record $1 trillion in the form of buybacks and dividends.

Stock repurchases hit nearly $190 billion in the first quarter for the S&P 500, according to preliminary results from S&P Dow Jones Indices. The last time that record was set was just before the Great Recession, when companies bought up almost $172 billion of buybacks.

You really need to study Economics a little bit so that you don't come across as a dumbass every time you post your Marxist bullshit.

You need to take a grade school economics course, you come across like a moron every time.
40 years of corporate tax cuts and they haven't work once, unless deficit, debt and recession was the goal.

 

[Smokin' OP]

The Federal Government extracts massive resources from the general population and sends some of it back. It keeps expanding the process. Of course we argue who gets what is sent back.

What a coincidence, you know who else does the same thing?

Corporations.
Republican solution: Give them even more taxpayer $$$.
That'll show them to raise prices.

 

[22lcidw]

What a coincidence, you know who else does the same thing?

Corporations.
Republican solution: Give them even more taxpayer $$$.
That'll show them to raise prices.

Many corporations because of tax laws left the United States and based themselves overseas. Arguing over it does not change the fact. Headquarters and jobs overseas. Manufacturing jobs moved over seas due to lower wages and trade deals. Sophistication it is not. We were our own world within the borders of our nation. Globalism does not want that. We legislated huge companies away. So how do you get them back? It is clear that many politicians do not want a sovereign nation. We gave away the store. And there is pain in rebuilding it and we do not have the patience for it.

 

[SweetSue92]

They said the said the same thing about Bill Clinton

They didn't have THESE leftists when Bill Clinton was around. Woke wasn't a thing

 

[Smokin' OP]

Many corporations because of tax laws left the United States and based themselves overseas.

Some did, some left for greed.

That's been going on for decades.
Trump claimed he would bring back millions of corporations to the US with the $2.3 trillion tax cut.
That never happened.

A number of them took the tax cut and left.

Arguing over it does not change the fact. Headquarters and jobs overseas. Manufacturing jobs moved over seas due to lower wages and trade deals. Sophistication it is not. We were our own world within the borders of our nation. Globalism does not want that. We legislated huge companies away. So how do you get them back?

Sure there is, tax, tariff or ban those American products made overseas.
A GE washer, made in China costing $500 would be $750 or more.
One made in the US would cost the $500.

It is clear that many politicians do not want a sovereign nation. We gave away the store. And there is pain in rebuilding it and we do not have the patience for it.

 

[pknopp]

There's a lot of poor people in W. Viginia, its the poorest state of the union. He lives like a king and his paupers are eat the bread.

No it isn't and also "poor" is relative. People doing perfectly fine in WV would be considered doing poorly in certain other states.

Top 10 Poorest States in the U.S. | Friends Committee On National Legislation

We might also mention that the tax cuts for the rich in the BBB bill does help to make the wealth gap larger. Just think if the Democrats had actually did what they promised they would do and make the "rich pay their fair share" and had included tax increases to pay for this bill, would Joe had the argument he has to stand against it?

Who really is to blame here? Those who completely did a 180 concerning their campaign promises or Joe who is not going to allow that to happen?

 

[22lcidw]

Some did, some left for greed.

That's been going on for decades.
Trump claimed he would bring back millions of corporations to the US with the $2.3 trillion tax cut.
That never happened.

A number of them took the tax cut and left.


Sure there is, tax, tariff or ban those American products made overseas.
A GE washer, made in China costing $500 would be $750 or more.
One made in the US would cost the $500.

Break up the corporations like they did with others. like Bell telephone. Give massive competition to the internet in all ways also.

 

[Smokin' OP]

Break up the corporations like they did with others. like Bell telephone. Give massive competition to the internet in all ways also.

That does nothing to address the issue.

 

[Flash]

Sure just give it to corporations, dipshit.
THEY know how to use it.

June 28 2018
The Republican tax reform package that was supposed to raise wages and spur hiring has instead funded a record stock buyback and dividend spree, benefiting investors and company executives over workers.

President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion bill in December last year, saying the corporate tax cut would make it favorable for companies to bring back into the U.S. cash stashed in foreign operations.


"More than 70 percent of this [tax cut] will be returned to workers," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a January press conference after the bill came into effect.

However, companies have instead used the extra cash to spend billions of dollars buying back their own stock, boosting the value of shares held by investors.

Over the past year, S&P 500 companies have given their shareholders a record $1 trillion in the form of buybacks and dividends.

Stock repurchases hit nearly $190 billion in the first quarter for the S&P 500, according to preliminary results from S&P Dow Jones Indices. The last time that record was set was just before the Great Recession, when companies bought up almost $172 billion of buybacks.


You need to take a grade school economics course, you come across like a moron every time.
40 years of corporate tax cuts and they haven't work once, unless deficit, debt and recession was the goal.

Don't give me that goddamn commie bullshit.

Our government is a bloated out of control debt ridden monster that saps money from the people that earned the money and redistributes to all kinds of frigging welfare queens. Welfare queens like Obama's buddies that he bailed out on Wall Street, the Environmental wacko scammers like Solundra to the filthy ass Illegals that Potatohead is allowing to flood in. The list of welfare queens that sucks off the teats of the filthy government is very long and it includes foreign as much as domestic. I mean why did The Worthless Negro use our money to build Mosques for the fucking Muslims?

Our Federal government is much larger than we need. There are only a few legitimate functions of the Federal government; Defense, courts, police etc. Most of us don't complain about road building but even that the government fucks up by bloating it with with Davis Bacon and bridges to nowhere.

The Federal budget doesn't need to be $5 trillion a year and we sure as hell don't need to borrowing more money.

This fucking wasteful bill by Potaohead is nothing more than more government wasteful spending and it is despicable. Just like any of the monstrosity bills we will get nothing out of it and it will just put America farther in debt. The filthy ass Progressive special interest will make out like bandits but Americans won't get shit. I read the other day that every American family is owns about $600K of that debt.. When the hell is this destructive shit going to stop?

 

[Smokin' OP]

Don't give me that goddamn commie bullshit.

Our government is a bloated out of control debt ridden monster that saps money from the people that earned the money and redistributes to all kinds of frigging welfare queens. Welfare queens like Obama's buddies that he bailed out on Wall Street, the Environmental wacko scammers like Solundra to the filthy ass Illegals that Potatohead is allowing to flood in. The list of welfare queens that sucks off the teats of the filthy government is very long and it includes foreign as much as domestic. I mean why did The Worthless Negro use our money to build Mosques for the fucking Muslims?

What a fucking liar, Obama didn't build any fucking mosque.

“Barack Obama, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton conspired together to send seven hundred and seventy million dollars — nearly $1 billion to the Middle East to renovate mosques,” the story says, referring to the former president and the two people who served as his secretaries of state. Skeptical Facebook users flagged it as potentially fake news.

You get your 'news from facebook?

Our Federal government is much larger than we need. There are only a few legitimate functions of the Federal government; Defense, courts, police etc. Most of us don't complain about road building but even that the government fucks up by bloating it with with Davis Bacon and bridges to nowhere.

Sure, the rest is communism.
We should just let people starve.

At the height of the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine under Joseph Stalin, starving people roamed the countryside, desperate for something, anything to eat. In the village of Stavyshche, a young peasant boy watched as the wanderers dug into empty gardens with their bare hands. Many were so emaciated, he recalled, that their bodies began to swell and stink from the extreme lack of nutrients.

The Federal budget doesn't need to be $5 trillion a year and we sure as hell don't need to borrowing more money.

This fucking wasteful bill by Potaohead is nothing more than more government wasteful spending and it is despicable.

So, we should be paying $750 billion a year for the pentagon?
That's twice the annual cost of Biden's plan.

Don't hear Trumptards whining about that.

Just like any of the monstrosity bills we will get nothing out of it and it will just put America farther in debt.

Yeah, like Trump's $2.3 trillion tax cut?

June 26 2018
The Republican tax reform package that was supposed to raise wages and spur hiring has instead funded a record stock buyback and dividend spree, benefiting investors and company executives over workers.

President Donald Trump signed the bill in December last year, saying the corporate tax cut would make it favorable for companies to bring back into the U.S. cash stashed in foreign operations.


"More than 70 percent of this [tax cut] will be returned to workers," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a January press conference after the bill came into effect.

Over the past year, S&P 500 companies have given their shareholders a record $1 trillion in the form of buybacks and dividends, led by Apple, Cisco Systems, and other technology giants.

Stock repurchases hit nearly $190 billion in the first quarter for the S&P 500, according to preliminary results from S&P Dow Jones Indices. The last time that record was set was just before the Great Recession, when companies bought up almost $172 billion of buybacks.

Yeah, that helped people, the rich people.

The filthy ass Progressive special interest will make out like bandits but Americans won't get shit.

Right, they won't.
Just not the 'right' ones.

I read the other day that every American family is owns about $600K of that debt.. When the hell is this destructive shit going to stop?

 

[Flash]

What a fucking liar, Obama didn't build any fucking mosque.

“Barack Obama, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton conspired together to send seven hundred and seventy million dollars — nearly $1 billion to the Middle East to renovate mosques,” the story says, referring to the former president and the two people who served as his secretaries of state. Skeptical Facebook users flagged it as potentially fake news.

You get your 'news from facebook?


Sure, the rest is communism.
We should just let people starve.

At the height of the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine under Joseph Stalin, starving people roamed the countryside, desperate for something, anything to eat. In the village of Stavyshche, a young peasant boy watched as the wanderers dug into empty gardens with their bare hands. Many were so emaciated, he recalled, that their bodies began to swell and stink from the extreme lack of nutrients.

So, we should be paying $750 billion a year for the pentagon?
That's twice the annual cost of Biden's plan.

Don't hear Trumptards whining about that.

Yeah, like Trump's $2.3 trillion tax cut?

June 26 2018
The Republican tax reform package that was supposed to raise wages and spur hiring has instead funded a record stock buyback and dividend spree, benefiting investors and company executives over workers.

President Donald Trump signed the bill in December last year, saying the corporate tax cut would make it favorable for companies to bring back into the U.S. cash stashed in foreign operations.


"More than 70 percent of this [tax cut] will be returned to workers," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a January press conference after the bill came into effect.

Over the past year, S&P 500 companies have given their shareholders a record $1 trillion in the form of buybacks and dividends, led by Apple, Cisco Systems, and other technology giants.

Stock repurchases hit nearly $190 billion in the first quarter for the S&P 500, according to preliminary results from S&P Dow Jones Indices. The last time that record was set was just before the Great Recession, when companies bought up almost $172 billion of buybacks.

Yeah, that helped people, the rich people.

Right, they won't.
Just not the 'right' ones.

The thing that is always pathetic about you stupid little Moon Bats is that you think every across the board income tax cut helps the rich.

What you little dumbass uneducated shits fail to understand is that more than half the people in this country don't pay any of that trillion a year in the filthy income tax and the rest is mostly concentrated at the top 5% of income.

This stupid bill by Potaohead is just more unnecessary bloated out of control Progressive special interest spending and all it is going to do is put the country in more debt with nothing to show for it.

What we need to do is stop all this bloated spending. We can have a great federal government for about a trillion and a half a year. The rest is nothing more wasted spending and it needs to stop.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[Smokin' OP]

The thing that is always pathetic about you stupid little Moon Bats is that you think every across the board income tax cut helps the rich.

That's because they do.

December 24 2018
President Trump kicked off his holiday weekend at Mar-a-Lago Friday night at a dinner where he told friends, "You all just got a lot richer," referencing the sweeping tax overhaul he signed into law hours earlier.

The president has spent many weekends of his presidency so far at the "Winter White House," where initiation fees cost $200,000, annual dues cost $14,000, and some of the most affluent members of society have the opportunity to interact with the president in a setting while many Americans cannot.

Some janitor gets an extra $15 in their check, while a rich person gets $1500.

The pathetic thing is republitards think tax cuts help EVERYONE equally.

What you little dumbass uneducated shits fail to understand is that more than half the people in this country don't pay any of that trillion a year in the filthy income tax

Yeah, let's rape the little guy, just like republitards have been saying for decades.

In 2003 Leona Helmsley, famous for saying, as I’m sure you remember, “Only the little people pay taxes.”
Then Trump.
'
The only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax," Clinton said.
Trump quickly retorted: "That makes me smart."


Marginal Rates: For tax year 2021, the top tax rate remains 37% for individual single taxpayers with incomes greater than $523,600 ($628,300 for married couples filing jointly). The other rates are:

• 35%, for incomes over $209,425 ($418,850 for married couples filing jointly);
• 32% for incomes over $164,925 ($329,850 for married couples filing jointly);
• 24% for incomes over $86,375 ($172,750 for married couples filing jointly);
• 22% for incomes over $40,525 ($81,050 for married couples filing jointly);
• 12% for incomes over $9,950 ($19,900 for married couples filing jointly).
• The lowest rate is 10% for incomes of single individuals with incomes of $9,950 or less ($19,900 for married couples filing jointly).

and the rest is mostly concentrated at the top 5% of income.

But let's nail that tax cheat making $10,000 a year.

This stupid bill by Potaohead is just more unnecessary bloated out of control Progressive special interest spending and all it is going to do is put the country in more debt with nothing to show for it.

Sure, the special interest, like working and poor Americans.
Nothing like the $2.3 trillion tax cut Trump signed, everyone partied like it was 1999.

What we need to do is stop all this bloated spending. We can have a great federal government for about a trillion and a half a year. The rest is nothing more wasted spending and it needs to stop.

So, half of that would be for the pentagon.
You really are an 'economist'.

 

[Nostra]

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In recent months, Manchin has told several of his fellow Democrats that he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children, according to two sources familiar with the senator’s comments.

Manchin’s private comments shocked several senators, who saw it as an unfair assault on his own constituents and those struggling to raise children in poverty.

Manchin Shocked Fellow Senators With Private Claims About Biden Bill​

Pentagon Issues Rules Aimed At Stopping Rise Of Extremism In Military

Um, your "several fellow Democrats" is really two unnamed "sources" from Huffpo.

 

[Nostra]

That's because they do.

December 24 2018
President Trump kicked off his holiday weekend at Mar-a-Lago Friday night at a dinner where he told friends, "You all just got a lot richer," referencing the sweeping tax overhaul he signed into law hours earlier.

The president has spent many weekends of his presidency so far at the "Winter White House," where initiation fees cost $200,000, annual dues cost $14,000, and some of the most affluent members of society have the opportunity to interact with the president in a setting while many Americans cannot.

Some janitor gets an extra $15 in their check, while a rich person gets $1500.

The pathetic thing is republitards think tax cuts help EVERYONE equally.




Yeah, let's rape the little guy, just like republitards have been saying for decades.

In 2003 Leona Helmsley, famous for saying, as I’m sure you remember, “Only the little people pay taxes.”
Then Trump.
'
The only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax," Clinton said.
Trump quickly retorted: "That makes me smart."


Marginal Rates: For tax year 2021, the top tax rate remains 37% for individual single taxpayers with incomes greater than $523,600 ($628,300 for married couples filing jointly). The other rates are:

• 35%, for incomes over $209,425 ($418,850 for married couples filing jointly);
• 32% for incomes over $164,925 ($329,850 for married couples filing jointly);
• 24% for incomes over $86,375 ($172,750 for married couples filing jointly);
• 22% for incomes over $40,525 ($81,050 for married couples filing jointly);
• 12% for incomes over $9,950 ($19,900 for married couples filing jointly).
• The lowest rate is 10% for incomes of single individuals with incomes of $9,950 or less ($19,900 for married couples filing jointly).

But let's nail that tax cheat making $10,000 a year.

Sure, the special interest, like working and poor Americans.
Nothing like the $2.3 trillion tax cut Trump signed, everyone partied like it was 1999.


So, half of that would be for the pentagon.
You really are an 'economist'.

Right moron.

'Roughshod'
That's what the GQP has been doing.
They wont even pay for their debt, they accrued when Trump was in office.

Trump shut down the government for 35 days because of his vanity wall, something Trump promised Mexico was paying for.

Trump remarked, "I am proud to shut down the government for border security ... I will be the one to shut [the government] down. I'm not going to blame you for it ... I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down."

Trump then steals $2.5 billion from the pentagon for his vanity wall.

WTF? Not one GQP nut voted for the bill that would help their constituents.
Seems Manchin needs it most.

Rank	State	Population	Median Income
1	Mississippi	2,984,418	$45,081
2	West Virginia	1,817,305	$46,711
3	New Mexico	2,092,454	$49,754
4	Louisiana	4,664,362	$49,469

Sure moron.
That's all the GQP does is obstruct, they've doing that decades,
Then when they get home to their constituents, brag about all the $$$, that they brought into their district.

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said it pained her to vote against the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.

But in the weeks that followed, the first-term Republican issued a news release celebrating more than $3.7 million from the package that went to community health centers in her district as one of her “achievements.” She said she prided herself on “bringing federal funding to the district and back into the pockets of taxpayers.”

GOP lawmakers have been especially bullish about promoting the rescue plan’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund, which devoted $28.6 billion to the struggling industry. Applications for the program opened this week.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., topped a group of at least eight Republicans who have encouraged constituents to apply in recent days. The others included Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.; Greg Pence, R-Ind.; Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash.; Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas; Troy Balderson, R-Ohio; and Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio.

Every single one voted against it.

Beyond funding for restaurants, Republicans have also touted millions of dollars in health care grants allocated to their districts in the latest stimulus plan.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., in late March pointed to millions of dollars in such grants on social media, saying he was “proud” to see the taxpayer dollars returning to his district.

Cawthorne voted against it.

Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., issued a news release at roughly the same time to promote more than $41 million spread across 12 health care centers in his district.

“I am glad that this funding has been secured,” he said, neglecting to mention how it was secured.

'Party before country', it's in the GQP, DNA.

Sure just give it to corporations, dipshit.
THEY know how to use it.

June 28 2018
The Republican tax reform package that was supposed to raise wages and spur hiring has instead funded a record stock buyback and dividend spree, benefiting investors and company executives over workers.

President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion bill in December last year, saying the corporate tax cut would make it favorable for companies to bring back into the U.S. cash stashed in foreign operations.


"More than 70 percent of this [tax cut] will be returned to workers," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a January press conference after the bill came into effect.

However, companies have instead used the extra cash to spend billions of dollars buying back their own stock, boosting the value of shares held by investors.

Over the past year, S&P 500 companies have given their shareholders a record $1 trillion in the form of buybacks and dividends.

Stock repurchases hit nearly $190 billion in the first quarter for the S&P 500, according to preliminary results from S&P Dow Jones Indices. The last time that record was set was just before the Great Recession, when companies bought up almost $172 billion of buybacks.


You need to take a grade school economics course, you come across like a moron every time.
40 years of corporate tax cuts and they haven't work once, unless deficit, debt and recession was the goal.

Some did, some left for greed.

That's been going on for decades.
Trump claimed he would bring back millions of corporations to the US with the $2.3 trillion tax cut.
That never happened.

A number of them took the tax cut and left.


Sure there is, tax, tariff or ban those American products made overseas.
A GE washer, made in China costing $500 would be $750 or more.
One made in the US would cost the $500.

What a fucking liar, Obama didn't build any fucking mosque.

“Barack Obama, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton conspired together to send seven hundred and seventy million dollars — nearly $1 billion to the Middle East to renovate mosques,” the story says, referring to the former president and the two people who served as his secretaries of state. Skeptical Facebook users flagged it as potentially fake news.

You get your 'news from facebook?


Sure, the rest is communism.
We should just let people starve.

At the height of the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine under Joseph Stalin, starving people roamed the countryside, desperate for something, anything to eat. In the village of Stavyshche, a young peasant boy watched as the wanderers dug into empty gardens with their bare hands. Many were so emaciated, he recalled, that their bodies began to swell and stink from the extreme lack of nutrients.

So, we should be paying $750 billion a year for the pentagon?
That's twice the annual cost of Biden's plan.

Don't hear Trumptards whining about that.

Yeah, like Trump's $2.3 trillion tax cut?

June 26 2018
The Republican tax reform package that was supposed to raise wages and spur hiring has instead funded a record stock buyback and dividend spree, benefiting investors and company executives over workers.

President Donald Trump signed the bill in December last year, saying the corporate tax cut would make it favorable for companies to bring back into the U.S. cash stashed in foreign operations.


"More than 70 percent of this [tax cut] will be returned to workers," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a January press conference after the bill came into effect.

Over the past year, S&P 500 companies have given their shareholders a record $1 trillion in the form of buybacks and dividends, led by Apple, Cisco Systems, and other technology giants.

Stock repurchases hit nearly $190 billion in the first quarter for the S&P 500, according to preliminary results from S&P Dow Jones Indices. The last time that record was set was just before the Great Recession, when companies bought up almost $172 billion of buybacks.

Yeah, that helped people, the rich people.

Right, they won't.
Just not the 'right' ones.

Hey Sparky, this is a thread about Joe Manchin, not Trump.

Take your hard-on for President Trump to one of the other tens of thousands of Trump pissy pants threads you losers have started.

 

[Smokin' OP]

Hey Sparky, this is a thread about Joe Manchin, not Trump.

Sure, but comment on Obama all you want.

Take your hard-on for President Trump to one of the other tens of thousands of Trump pissy pants threads you losers have started.

Trumptards have enough.

 

[sartre play]

Cant read minds, can read facts, he received three times more than his government pay in donations from Coal oil & gas.

 

[Flash]

So, half of that would be for the pentagon.

Yiou are realy confused, aren't you? Typical for an uneducated low information Moon Bat.

There are only a few legitimate and necessary items for government spending. Defense is one of them along with police and courts.

Most people would support being taxed to build roads. Education on a local level providing the money is spent on real education and not bloated Teacher Union salaries or teaching bullshit stuff like goddamn Negro Day or CRT.

We don't need all this other worthless government bullshit that takes almost 40% of the GDP at the Federal, State and Local level. Time to stop with welfare, subsidies, bailouts, entitlements, foreign aid and all these bloated worthless Federal cabinet agenices that don't do jackshit for the American people. Time to stop massive taxation and having government shitheads telling us how to run our lives.

We are $30 trillion in debt and almost 40% GDP goes to worthless government. Time to stop.

We had the biggest economic growth back in the 1950s and early 60s when the total cost of government was less than 20% of GDP. Of course the filthy ass Democrat "Great Society" put an end to that. didn't it? But it got the goddamn Negroes voting for Democrats, didn't it?

 

[ClaireH]

Break up the corporations like they did with others. like Bell telephone. Give massive competition to the internet in all ways also.

Break up the bad corporations that act like monopolies yes, while there are good corporations that should not be penalized for smart business decisions.

Bad corporations take advantage of the system conducting business that falls outside of the definition of “good business practices”. Facebook’s parent company comes to mind, although Zuckerberg is the head who shows up in court over these types of charges.