Tax cuts passed in Senate

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Short term, we're getting a few thousand a year from this.

It's so much worse than that.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/republi...care-next/

Florida Senator Marco Rubio admits that the Republican tax cut plan to aid corporations and the wealthy will require cuts to Social Security and Medicare to pay for it.

Rubio told reporters this week that in order to address the federal deficit, which will grow by at least $1 trillion if the tax plan passes, Congress will need to cut entitlement programs such as Social Security.

That's a time-honored page in the GOP playbook: starve the government of revenue and use that shortfall to justify slashing social programs. That they can do that while rewarding their donors is a win-win -- unless, of course, people wise up and punish them severely come '18 and '20. I'm not holding my breath.