Kentucky coal miners—along with the rest of us—will be paying the price to keep the government running next year. Buried in the giant $1.4 trillion government spending package that McConnell ushered through the Senate last week was a relatively modest $15 billion, 30-year payout to sustain the
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund—But here’s the kicker: McConnell threw out provisions that would have forced coal companies to commit to higher payments toward the health-care costs of their employees and retirees.
In short, McConnell let the coal industry skip out and leave the $15 billion black lung tab for everyone else to pay.
How Mitch McConnell Gave a Sweet Deal to Coal Industry | DCReport.org
Are you so stupid that you don't know that McConnell is only one of 535 congresscritters that voted on that bill? Also he not the only senator from a coal producing State. Get a ******* life already.
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I guess you missed the part where Moscow Mitch was behind this scheme. This is typical Pub policy. Have these big polluters screw their own employees and leave them sick and destitute then have the government bail them out from their liabilities. That is why I laugh at the notion that Republicans or Trumpists or whatever else these scammers call themselves these days are against big government. They are all for big government except they don't seek these puny ass poor Welfare checks, they want billions..tens of billions to fill their coffers.
Moscow Mitch is the biggest welfare queen of them all. All his friends are on the dole and he don't give a damn where they're from. From the link:
"......McConnell is already under scrutiny and criticism for
partnering with a previously sanctioned Russian businessman, Oleg Deripaska, who McConnell voted to de-sanction. Deripaska, who owns Rusal, a Russian-owned coal company, joined McConnell in a project that his home state of Kentucky voted in 2017 to invest $15M of taxpayer money."
Trumpist hypocrisy at its finest.