{"id":3095,"date":"2018-09-21T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/press\/paging-mitch-mcconnell\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:16:09","slug":"paging-mitch-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/paging-mitch-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Paging Mitch McConnell…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell previously said that “If we [Republicans] can’t sell this [the Trump tax law] to the American people, we ought to go into another line of work.”<\/p>\n

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McConnell, call your office. An internal Republican poll shows Americans know the truth about the Trump tax law and Republicans’ messaging has failed. By a 2-1 margin, Americans believe the Trump tax law benefits big corporations and rich Americans at the expense of middle-class families.<\/p>\n

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A poll shows the overwhelming majority of Americans know the Trump tax law benefits the wealthy and corporations instead of middle-class families.<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg<\/a>: “By a 2-to-1 margin — 61 percent to 30 percent — respondents said the law benefits ‘large corporations and rich Americans’ over ‘middle class families,’ according to the survey, which was completed on Sept. 2 by the GOP firm Public Opinion Strategies and obtained by Bloomberg News.”<\/p>\n

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The majority of Americans are right. The Trump tax law has done one thing: it's made the rich richer.<\/p>\n

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New York Magazine<\/a>: “The Trump Tax Cuts Did One Thing: Give Rich People More Money”<\/p>\n

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Corporations are using their massive tax breaks to benefit their CEOs and wealthy shareholders, not their workers.<\/p>\n

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CNN Money<\/a>: “For the first time in a decade, Corporate America is steering more money into stock buybacks than investing in the future.”<\/p>\n

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The bottom line is that the Trump tax law is nowhere near what Trump and Republicans promised.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: “The Trump tax cuts are a lot like Trump University: nowhere near what he promised for very obvious reasons.”<\/p>\n

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Republicans have already abandoned running on the unpopular Trump tax law.<\/p>\n

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Axios<\/a>: “Using the GOP tax cut as a strategy to win voters died in March, when the special election won by Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) showed that the issue wasn't working for Republicans.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell previously said that “If we [Republicans] can’t sell this [the Trump tax law] to the American people, we ought to go into another line of work.”   McConnell, call your office. 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