re: There is a down side to the tax bill

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There's nothing good about the bill, other than the fact that if it passes the Republicans will get shellacqued in the 2018 midterms and become a minority party for eternity.

Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman just said to Stephanopoulos on This Week that the bill is a "nightmare" which will hurt the Middle Class and not grow the economy.

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This makes no sense.

In 2016, only 30% of tax filers itemized (45 million out of 150 million total returns).

That means 105 million returns used the standard deduction. This bill doubles the standard deduction and child tax credit.

There isn't a scenario in this bill where every single one of those 105 million returns using the standard decuction doesn't save money and pay less taxes.

In addition, of the 45 million who itemized, at least 30 million of those will now switch to using the doubled standard deduction over itemizing because they too will save money.

This means at a the bare minimum, 135 million of 150 million tax filers will save money and pay less taxes than previously.

Over 110 million of those 135 million who save will average between $1,200 and $3,600 in savings.

And none of this even includes the fact that filers who met a 0% tax liability will also get an increased refund on their child tax credits.

How in the hell can you or Krugman tell us that a hundred million people/families having on average $100-$300 extra dollars per month is going to bode bad for Republicans and be a "nightmare" for the middle class? That's beyond retarded and very obviously partisan hyperbole and bullshite lies.

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Matthew Dowd (a former REPUBLICAN strategist) correctly attributed Roy Moore's recent defeat not on any sexual allegations, or even Moore himself, but on Donald Trump and his policies.

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The only one more wrong than Matthew Dowd, is you if you believe he is correct.

After the Moore scandal became public knowledge, Alabamians did not want either one. We were given a choice between crooked Luther, Teen-lover Moore, and Abortion loving, Hillary supporting Jones. Donald J. Trump is very well admired and liked in this state. His policies had nothing to do with Jones' election victory.

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In CA it means the conservatives move to other states. CA is a lot more Red then ppl think

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This. I know myself and a couple of others are looking at different places to move. That and people are actually starting to pay attention to the political shananigans out here, such as charging a fee instead of raising property tax as one has to go in a ballot and the other doesn’t.

It's going to be okay snowflake

A 100' tidal wave would solve about half of this nation's problems

Yeah, Krugman is a fraud. When he’s wrong, and he always is, it’s because we didn’t throw enough money at the problem. He’s the worst of the worst, a real Gruber- like figure...