https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marco-rubio-corporations-arent-investing-tax-cuts/
Wow where did this Marc guy come from?
From the land of conspiratorial murmurs underneath the capital every Tuesday morning where a lot of House republicans are getting fed up with Trump. Alternatively, from the land of 'SpeakingOutYaAss'
Oh you don't say? Who could have ever predicted this?
Maybe if Republicans actually bothered to keep up with modern economic/academic thought even a little bit they wouldn't keep running into problems damn near everyone predicted would happen.
If damn near everyone is telling you something is a bad idea, chances are it isn't a grand conspiracy against you. Chances are your idea is shit.
Republicans know very well their ideas won't work. But they and their friends are getting rich out of screwing the country, so they continue.
not only did he vote for it, but he also said it was a good thing at a Trump event in Florida two weeks ago.
These people are spineless cowards. Stop voting for Republicans.
Something will trickle down any day now.
I'm hoping it's warm and yellow.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132446/5ba9fc1a-cf2a-45fa-96bb-466cf95de209/image.png
Probably more like a dribble out of his limp dick, to be honest.
Seriously, how can he sleep at night knowing he voted for this AND knowing how poorly it's turning out?
The title is a little misleading. They are investing it (in the form of buying back debt), just not in the workers.
I have no idea why anybody thought that they would turn around and just increase salaries, though. That makes extremely little economic sense.
It's not too hard to sleep in a bed made out of rich people's campaign contributions.
Only if they have a hole in their pocket.
We'll all scramble for the loose pennies that fall out.
Their intentions? What intentions are those?
"But, but we thought if we just gave a bunch of money to the rich they'd just give it all back, later! What's going on!"
To trick people into being okay with something under a false premise.
I've gone through the dull, boring task of compiling a graphic that represents all the people (in a room) who thought this bill was going to work as advertised, but are suddenly surprised that it's not:
https://i.imgur.com/gynKibM.png
My stepmom works for AT&T legitimately told me that she was supporting the Republicans + the tax cut because AT&T would give her a bonus. She was super bummed when it turned out the bonus only went to certain people in non-managerial positions, so she didn't qualify. It's like in 2000 when Bush said that the budget surplus should be spent on a tax refund; literally paying people to vote for him
My aunt and uncle voted for Trump because they believed the tax cut he promised would benefit them. Needless to say, they don't engage in political conversations at family outings anymore
People are greedy, and seeing it in my own family has made me realize just how dumb about their greed they can be.
My little brother saw a slight increase in his paycheck so he thinks it's all hunky-dory. Wonder how his tune will change when the time to vote to keep his tax-cuts comes and they vote against keeping them due to the ridiculous deficit...
Well, it's easy. It'll be the next guy's fault for not being fiscally conservative enough. Works especially well if you know your chance of keeping power is slim.
Like a shower of gold!
Oh fuck, I just remembered that I used to work in a taco franchise where the manager seriously believed that people on welfare shouldn't be allowed to vote because that was "a way the government would buy their votes". He seriously believed this because he once attended a sermon where the pastor said "God speaks to us in silence", and one day as he was driving in the middle of nowhere, his radio stopped working, and as he was frantically beating on it to get it to work again he had that thought, and then his radio started *miraculously* working again.
He, too, was convinced that trickle-down economics was the best system.
It's incredible to hear stories like this. The people involved may as well be Martians. Religious fundamentalism is a sort of manufactured, deliberate spiral into insanity.
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