Trump signals openness to changes in GOP tax plan

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press




WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday changes to the Republican tax bill are coming, as he looks to win over holdout GOP senators in an effort to pass the package by the end of the year.

In a morning tweet, the president said, “With just a few changes, some mathematical, the middle class and job producers can get even more in actual dollars and savings.” Trump is suggesting openness to making unspecified changes to the way millions of “pass-through” businesses are taxed, a sticking point for some lawmakers.

Trump and Republicans have set as a vital political goal passage of tax overhaul legislation by the end of the year. The House recently passed a $1.5 trillion bill. Senate GOP leaders hope to muscle their bill through this week. The package blends a sharp reduction in top corporate and business tax rates with more modest relief for individuals.

Trump was set to meet Monday afternoon with five members of the Senate Finance Committee who are on board with the GOP plan. He will travel to Capitol Hill Tuesday to personally lobby Republican senators.

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[underpants]

1. Math and taxes huh?

[DetlefK]

2. I know how Trump will "lobby" these Republicans:

- Pass a tax-bill. I need a win.
- You have to understand that tax-reform is a complicated pro...
- And make it not bad.
- Beg your pardon?
- The bill. Make it good. I want tax-cuts for the people. People are getting taxed to death.
- Riiiiiiiiiiight. Now, when it comes to tax-cuts we have to take into account...
- Just pass the bill. I'm outta here.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. There will always be that part of me who wants to see the face of the

trumpster when they find out the tax plan they voted for is ending their access to Medicare, Social Security, food assistance or any and all government regulators protecting them from big business.

But when that happens, we all either are destroyed or killed.

Climate change is a done deal, it IS going to wipe out half or more of the living beings on this planet.

So what is left is how do we live between now and then?

[FakeNoose]

4. So true

They'll never figure out that THEY DID THIS when they voted for the orange asshole.

[unblock]

5. Donnie willing to sign whatever he can call a "win"? What a shocker!

Wow, members of congress must be floored. Who could have seen that comming a million miles away?

[lark]

6. To be fair he won't sign just anything.

It must drastically cut his personal taxes or he will veto, end of story. He will only sign anything that benefits him personally, whether it's his greed or his hate.

[unblock]

7. Not to worry.

Republicans wouldn't dream of passing anything that doesn't cut taxes for people like Donnie.

It's what they do.

[lark]

8. Yes, true. They only do bad hurtful things to the nation and it's working class.

They are totally anathema to me.