In 2017, Congress passed a $2 trillion tax cut where $.83 of every dollar went to the very top earners and richest corporations. The tax cut will never pay for itself. 🧵

Jun 20, 2023 · 7:36 AM UTC

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The money was not and is not used to reinvest or to create jobs. It goes to stock dividends and stock buybacks. Companies that already make billions of dollars in profit are then handed more billions by the taxpayers.
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When Biden took office and had a Democratic House and Senate, there was never a mention of repealing that tax cut. (The middle-class part of the tax cut was good. The tax cuts to the very wealthy should have been repealed, the middle class cuts should have been immediately put back in.)
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Our system is a little more than a giveaway to the rich at the expense of the poor. And status quo will not disrupt itself.
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Exactly! It will never pay for itself and tbh the @GOP knew that. They knew it would create a bad deficit and was hoping for it so they could use “social programs as the boogie man” hoping no one would notice it was their tax cut.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Marianne, what is your actual plan to disrupt this? Reparations? I’m not sure if that will work. Got anything else?
Scott Paper is a glaring example of how citizens are suffering at the hands of corporate tyranny under the guise of trickle down economics in a corrupt capitalist system
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You mean those tax cuts that have increased tax revenue by 50% . You mean those
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Replying to @marwilliamson
More frightening perhaps might be how much of that .83 gets into the Investment accounts that fuel the Military Industrial institutions that supply the market values of our pensions and IRA, not to mention our employment! BEGIN THE DISRUPTION, and pray that time brings REASON!
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The very top earners save the most from tax cuts because the very top earners PAY THE MOST TAXES! Roughly half of Americans net out at zero income tax, so clearly they won’t get more back. I know this is asking a lot of a politician but … try being intellectually honest??
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I believe that's because the Dems knew they couldn't get 10 GOP senators to pass the 60 senator threshold.
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As long as tax cuts are perceived by the 99% as being beneficial when they really benefit corporations & the 1%; #Republicans & conservative #Democrats will win the argument over making the economic safety net stronger for the 99%. #taxcuts
Replying to @marwilliamson
How about the "takers and creators" campaign? Even Paul Ryan walked that back. We're victims of fear or champions for change.