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CNN Just Reported:
November 8, 2017 at 1:02 pm
The CBO has scored the republicunt tax cut bill and found that it will add $1.7 trillion to the deficit over ten years.
The significance is that the scam the fuckers are trying to pull requires "only" a $1.5 trillion additional deficit in order to qualify for this reconciliation shit that they can pass with only republicunt votes.
We shall what happens.
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RE: CNN Just Reported:
November 8, 2017 at 1:05 pm
The bill as written is - IMO - going to run afoul of the Byrd rule anyhow.
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RE: CNN Just Reported:
November 8, 2017 at 1:14 pm
Economy on a good upswing as it is without it.
Why not take a page from Bill Clinton presidency and let rising tide bring down deficit ?? painlessly . . .
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RE: CNN Just Reported:
November 8, 2017 at 2:23 pm
What's 'the Byrd rule'? (Pardon my foreignness)
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RE: CNN Just Reported:
November 8, 2017 at 2:28 pm
Regulations on the Reconciliation Process.
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RE: CNN Just Reported:
November 8, 2017 at 2:41 pm
^^^
The reconciliation process allows congress to pass budget reconciliation bills, for which they only need a simple majority instead of the usual 60 votes in the Senate. The Byrd rule limits what can be in such a bill, and based on the analysis I've been reading, it almost certainly runs afoul of that rule.
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RE: CNN Just Reported:
November 8, 2017 at 2:46 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2017 at 2:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The rule that allows elected republicans to exclude elected democrats from the business of doing what they were elected to do. I hope they have the presence of mind to close that door behind them when they start losing seats.......
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