I'm calling conclusion jumping. Clearly the Dems can both represent the most prosperous among us AND represent the poorest and the middle class.
Once again you are bereft of any programs from the GOP that support any class BUT the wealthy. Still waiting for specifics.
Remember the passing of Medicare-D under a GOP president?
....a provision that prohibited Medicare from negotiating prices with drug companies.....was a bullshit GOP provision that hurt the middle and lower class elderly.
Dems fixed it.....GOP never even proposed addressing it. The Infrastructure Bill very definitely is targeted toward the middle class that commutes by rail and by car along roads and across bridges. Chips and Science Bill is a force multiplier for American manufacturing, creating more of it. You also continue to overlook the role that obstruction by the GOP plays in thwarting even more programs to help the middle and lower classes.
In 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act removed this ban and allowed Medicare to begin negotiating drug prices starting in 2026.[22]
Legislative history According to the New York Times December 17, 2004 editorial W.J."Billy" Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee from 2001 until February 4, 2004, was one of the chief architects of the new Medicare law.[9][10]
In 2004 Tauzin was appointed as chief lobbyist for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the trade association and lobby group for the drug industry with a "rumored salary of $2 million a year,"[9] drawing criticism from Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy group. They claimed that Tauzin "may have been negotiating for the lobbying job while writing the Medicare legislation."[10][11] Tauzin was responsible for including a provision that prohibited Medicare from negotiating prices with drug companies.[12]
It's a sad commentary on politics in Washington that a member of Congress who pushed through a major piece of legislation benefiting the drug industry, gets the job leading that industry.
—?Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook 2004 House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said,[10]
I think if seniors want to know why the pharmaceutical companies made out so well at their expense, all they have to do is look at this. This is an abuse of power. This is a conflict of interest.
B402: Did you stop and think why those "wealthiest congressional districts" were so great!!! Wonder if it was because they were represented by Dem's!!! And not by hap0206's bunch of "fucking republicans"!!!!
B402, Exact thought blackhawks beat me so short one, to the question of whose policies support the poor the most there is no contest. No shame at all in using some of the rich's money to do support the middle class and the poor. If that's the ring gotta be in it. There would be shame in posing as a phony independent here, as Trump posed to be elected, if you had any sense of shame. Trump doesn't either.
Maybe you should be writing letters to the editor in WV instead of filling this board with your never-ending both side word salads. This is just unbelievable.
h/t blackcat
The entire West Virginia State Police Department is under investigation for sexual misconduct.
Hey shithead how in all sanity can you say the Dems are supporting the rich by policy? Are you crazy? The Republicans who control your shithole state just supported tax cits for the wealthy and family's. What say you?
'Tax scam': Republicans follow debt ceiling fight by proposing tax cuts for wealthy
After threatening to force the government into default over the debt ceiling, Republican lawmakers Friday introduced new tax cuts that could add at least $21 billion to the national deficit over the next decade.
Three new GOP-backed bills would cut taxes for large companies, small businesses, and individual families while reducing clean energy tax incentives to pay for it.
"It's Republican clockwork," the ranking member on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) said in a statement. "Not even a week after their manufactured default crisis and it is back to tax cuts for the wealthy and well-connected.
"This stoops to a new low even for them: retroactive corporate tax cuts, next-to-nothing for the most vulnerable children and families, and sneaking in favors for Big Oil," he continued. "Make no mistake about it, they are laying the groundwork for even bigger cuts in 2025, and the only way they will ever achieve a balanced budget is by sticking seniors and working families with the bill."
The cuts come in the American Families and Jobs Act, introduced Friday by Ways and Means Committee leader Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-Mo.). That act is comprised of three different bills.
The first, The Washington Post explained, would reinstate corporate tax breaks related to spending on interest, equipment, and research for a limited time.
It would also roll back some provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) by limiting tax credits for electric vehicles, barring tax payers from using those credits for used vehicles, ending tax credits to incentivize clean energy production and investments, and repealing a tax on toxic chemical waste sites.
The elimination of the green energy tax credits are expected to pay for $216 billion of the tax cuts' $240 billion price tag over the next decade, POLITICO reported.
Neal pointed out the ironic timing of the proposed swap, noting that, "while Americans are sheltering inside to avoid the fallout of climate-spurred wildfires, Republicans think now is a good time to repeal the largest climate investment in our history to pay for their corporate handouts."
The second and third bills would increase deductions for families making less than $400,000 over the next two years and get rid of a requirement that taxpayers report Venmo or similar transactions over $600, a measure aimed at small businesses, The Washington Post explained.
"These policies will provide relief for working families, strengthen small businesses, grow jobs, and protect American innovation and competitiveness," Smith said in a statement.
However, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre called them a "tax scam," as Reuters reported, adding that the GOP's "priority isn't reducing the deficit or out-competing the world, their priority is giving handouts to rich special interests and corporations at the expense of everyone else."
Exactly how much Republican plans would add to the deficit is a matter of debate. The nonpartisan Join Committee on Taxation calculated a total of $21 billion over the next 10 years, The Washington Post reported.
However, the bills extend Trump tax breaks for businesses through 2025, but Republicans have said they would like to make them permanent. If they succeeded, it could cost the government a little under $500 billion, the Tax Policy Center said, and the dividend would largely go to high-earning Americans.
"If House Republicans were actually serious about the deficit, they would demand wealthy corporations pay their fair share in taxes," Liz Zelnick, director of Accountable.US' Economic Security & Corporate Power, said in a statement responding to the new bills. "Instead, they're giving billions in wasteful tax giveaways to greedy corporations, instead of making critical investments in American families and communities."
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