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applegrove

(118,659 posts)
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 05:47 PM Nov 2017

Here are all the ways the GOP tax plan kicks millennials in the teeth

Linette Lopez at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/gop-tax-plan-impact-on-millennials

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From home ownership, to healthcare, to raising rates on lower income brackets, both these bills contain provisions that disproportionately target Americans born between 1981 and 1997.

Higher education is especially hard hit, according to an analysis by Young Invincibles, a lobby group for millennials.

“At a time when young adults and families are struggling more than ever to pay for higher education, they simply can’t afford to have more financial support eliminated by this tax plan," said Reid Setzer, Young Invincibles’ director of government affairs.

"If lawmakers want to make our economy stronger, they should boost funding for higher education and target financial assistance to those who need it most, not drain programs that help train our workforce to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy."

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Here are all the ways the GOP tax plan kicks millennials in the teeth (Original Post) applegrove Nov 2017 OP
k&r&rt! steve2470 Nov 2017 #1
I recommend reading everything this woman writes. dawg Nov 2017 #2

dawg

(10,624 posts)
2. I recommend reading everything this woman writes.
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 05:56 PM
Nov 2017

Linette Lopez is one of my favorite business writers. I think anyone even remotely interested in business news should follow her.

(She does, occasionally, rail a little too hard against the baby boomers. But I do understand her generational frustration.)

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