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Posted on Fri, Mar 4th, 2022 by Jason Easley
Republicans Are At Each Others Throats As Rick Scott Goes After Mitch McConnell
The Rick Scott and Mitch McConnell feud took another turn as Scott went after McConnell for not wanting to raise taxes on half of the American people.
Rick Scott is running the Senate Republican campaign arm for 2022, and he released a plan that would raise taxes on millions upon millions of Americans, and Mitch McConnell shot it down by saying, We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years. That will not be part of the Republican Senate Majority agenda. We will focus instead on what the American people are concerned about: inflation, energy, defense, the border and crime.
Mitch McConnell is correct. Senate Republicans will get slaughtered if they run on raising taxes on half of the American people while ending Medicare and Social Security.
Rick Scotts plan is a great way to make sure that Democrats keep the Senate majority.
The underlying issue is that Republicans have no unity. Rick Scott and Mitch McConnell are fighting over the Republican agenda. In roughly eight months, voters will be going to the polls, and Republicans cant even agree on raising or lowering taxes.
COVID is fading as an issue, the economy is growing, and if Republicans keep fighting with each other, Democrats could keep control of Congress.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)They run campaigns on misinformation and smearing opponents. No agenda in the Democratic sense anyway.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)vanlassie
(5,675 posts)When he talks about everybody needing to pay taxes does he not know that even the uneducated are aware that the rich are flagrantly guilty of not paying taxes? But good for him for reminding us, I guess! What a rube.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Who does Sen. Scott think doesn't know anything about paying taxes? If you work for a living, you pay taxes. If you live in a state with sales tax, you pay taxes. If you live in a state with an income tax, you pay taxes. If you have a cellular telephone, you pay taxes. If you have a rotary-dial land line telephone, you pay taxes. If you buy gasoline for your automobile, you pay taxes. If you buy gasoline for your lawn mower, you pay taxes.
Florida's just churning them out by the bucketful these days.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)But will the media report on the total disarray?
Hekate
(90,714 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)mitch96
(13,911 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,756 posts)Chainfire
(17,549 posts)Tax the rich. I think that the man is crazy wanting to raise taxes on the middle class, how many voting billionaires are there anyway?
I hate to be in the position to have to side with McConnell, but Scott can get stuffed as far as I am concerned.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,682 posts)Chainfire
(17,549 posts)He is a hood, robbin from the middle class to give to the rich.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)when you realize your dependable income goes poof.
zuul
(14,627 posts)Republicans in disarray!!!
Republicans in disarray!!!
Republicans in disarray!!!
mitch96
(13,911 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Because they cheat, and they will cheat like hell in the next election and the one after that. They don't need to win over voters when they control the voting process.