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ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts) Mon Nov 20, 2017, 03:07 PM Nov 2017

The GOP Tax Plan in a nutshell.....

Think about this......

The GOP Tax Plan is nothing more than Economic SERFDOM for the Poor and Middle Class to work all their lives in order to own NOTHING. While the super rich(the Kochs, Mercers, Waltons, Addelsons) get all the Tax Breaks in order to own EVERYTHING.

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The GOP Tax Plan in a nutshell..... (Original Post) ProudMNDemocrat Nov 2017 OP

And our Republican "representatives" support this! (nt) question everything Nov 2017 #1

Upward mobility was already low, this should really kill it Johonny Nov 2017 #2

Exactly. I think we're looking at the lAst generation of highly educated middle-class citizens. hedda_foil Nov 2017 #3

question everything

(47,521 posts)

1. And our Republican "representatives" support this! (nt)

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Mon Nov 20, 2017, 03:14 PM

Nov 2017

Johonny

(20,878 posts)

2. Upward mobility was already low, this should really kill it

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Mon Nov 20, 2017, 03:17 PM

Nov 2017

Education is now a road to selfdom and debt where it used to be the road to upward mobility.

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)

3. Exactly. I think we're looking at the lAst generation of highly educated middle-class citizens.

Reply to Johonny (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 06:56 PM

Nov 2017

Even if kids are willing to take out huge college loans with undeductible interest, almost no one will be able to obtain a doctorate in medicine or anything else, if the scholarship or fellowship is taxed as actual income. And once Betsey de Vice gets done privatizing K-12 education, most will never learn more than rudimentary math and reading with regular breaks for the compulsory one minute hate. USA! USA!

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