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Author: EchotaBaaa   😊 😞
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Subject: If Axios is right
Date: 03/28/2025 3:48 PM
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It means Trump reads my posts, AND it would expose Club 401K big time. And not just their stock market fetish, not just their looking the other way on China slave labor, and not greedily sucking up their AMT reform and their protected-from-mass-immigration lazy ass overpaid I.T positions.

It would also bring to the surface the idiot Republicans - there are still many.


But if he raises the TOP marginal rates as a way of eliminating taxes on tips - it would be just amazing politics.



And Club 401K would have to be not so subtle about being the Party of the Rich.

I won't get my hopes up because the Norquist NitWits will try and screw this up Im sure.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: If Axios is right
Date: 03/28/2025 5:31 PM
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Trump would absolutely bump the top marginal rate up a couple of points to offset no tax on tips and limited overtime taxes...in a heartbeat.

That's another 80/20 issue - and an excellent example of Clintonian triangulation - that he would put the little d's on the wrong side of. The best part is, they're almost guaranteed to vote against it :)
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Subject: Re: If Axios is right
Date: 03/28/2025 7:43 PM
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I truly hope it's Clinton triangulation. And it would go so far in doing what I wanted in the mid 2000s - a party of workers in a country that demographically, otherwise would kill the GOP.

My concern....

The Man will be all set to do it, then someone walks into his office, speaks against it, that is the newest voice he hears and he changes his mind.

I'm just hoping.....
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: If Axios is right
Date: 03/28/2025 8:03 PM
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The Man will be all set to do it, then someone walks into his office, speaks against it, that is the newest voice he hears and he changes his mind.

I'm just hoping.....


I think if it were a Bush or a Romney in the White House there'd be a cut to corporate taxes, the highest marginal rates and other stuff to make the Chamber of Commerce happy - classic GOPe stuff.

But I don't think that's the prevailing sentiment anymore. Take this exchange between Tom Cotton and the CEOs of Kroger and Safeway, talking about their merger. I've queued it up at the right time:

https://youtu.be/BDNoKFpw4f4?t=337

[Sen. Cotton talking about when companies stomp on their center-right employees, and then they want something]

"...they probably shouldn't come to Washington and ask Republicans to carry their water whenever our democrat friends want to regulate them or block their mergers.

...I've read a lot about that in the news, and I'll say this: I'm sorry this is happening to you. Best of luck,".


The CEO looked like he'd swallowed a frog.

Paul Ryan was such a disappointment because he talked a sound fiscal game and then did nothing about it when he was the Speaker. I think you'll find that the Trump admin isn't going to play the game of giving big companies tax breaks and then watching them downsize the hell out of their US workforces, either.



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