Here's how the GOP—the party that thinks we're all losers and suckers—operates: it drops our taxes by $50 while dropping taxes for the rich by trillions, and then, when Dems try to end this crazy GOP giveaway, shouts, "They're raising your taxes!" How stupid do they think we are?
The GOP platform on so many issues is a bait-and-switch con—making Trump the *perfect* party leader. On taxes, the GOP realized long ago that as long as a person's taxes will temporarily go up by $1 while a better tax cut is being passed, you can shout, "Your taxes are going up!"
And of course Democrats very much have it within their power—if they control Congress—to not repeal Trump's paltry middle-class tax cut until the moment they're replacing it with a better one, but the GOP—in its thetoric—always gets to indulge the idea that that plan won't work.
Fact-checkers are powerless against this GOP rhetoric, as they're interceding in a debate between the parties where the parties are talking past each other. Republicans are suddenly focused—for once—on the short-term, while the Democrats are focused on the middle- and long- term.
Moreover, while Democrats are realists who think about the total financial burden on a family and whether it's going up or down, the GOP—so careful to see billionaires' finances with a clear eye—preposterously deconstructs the average family's budget to make ridiculous arguments.
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