{"id":26935,"date":"2017-12-17T19:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T19:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26935"},"modified":"2017-12-17T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T19:18:55","slug":"does-the-gop-serve-the-public-or-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26935","title":{"rendered":"Does the GOP serve the public … or itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First it was the Republican-led initiative to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with an unknown alternative.<\/p>\n

Americans weren’t having any part of that cluster-flip. The ACA repeal\/replace effort fizzled and failed.<\/p>\n

Now the GOP leadership in Congress is trying to enact a massive tax cut. How is that plan faring in the world of public opinion? Not much better than the ACA repeal effort.<\/p>\n

So now congressional Republicans are poised to send a tax cut to Donald J. Trump’s desk. The president will sign it. It’ll become law before the end of the year. Every Republican in Congress will declare victory.<\/p>\n

But is this what Americans really want? Some critical analysis is reporting that middle-class Americans won’t get a permanent tax break, while corporations and gazillionaires will get longterm tax relief. It’s also going to add more than a trillion dollars to the budget deficit over the next decade. Aren’t Republicans supposed to be “deficit hawks”?<\/p>\n

Thus, public opinion appears to be lined up against this tax overhaul.<\/p>\n

So … why do the men and women in command of the legislative and executive branches of government insist that this tax cut is going to answer all our prayers?<\/p>\n

I keep wondering if these political leaders represent the interests of all Americans or just those who have sway over the policies being enacted.<\/p>\n\n

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First it was the Republican-led initiative to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with an unknown alternative. Americans weren’t having any part of that cluster-flip. The ACA repeal\/replace effort fizzled and failed. Now the GOP leadership in Congress is trying to enact a massive tax cut. How is that plan faring in the … Continue reading Does the GOP serve the public … or itself?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[131,164,849,1112,1424,1941,7398],"class_list":["post-26935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-aca","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-tax-cut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26938,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26935\/revisions\/26938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}