posted December 18, 2017 02:34 AM            

THESE MILLIONAIRES HAVE RELEASED A VIDEO STATEMENT EXPOSING THE GOP'S LIES

https://patrioticmillionaires.org/press-release/patriotic-millionaires-release-video-statement-on-house-tax-plan/

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PATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES RELEASE VIDEO STATEMENT on House Tax Plan

Thursday, November 16
For Immediate Release

November 16, 2017

Contact: Sam Quigley

sam@patrioticmillionaires.org

202-446-0489

**WATCH THE VIDEO STATEMENT**

“They’re going to have their hearts broken”

Patriotic Millionaire Release VIDEO STATEMENT on House Tax Vote

Washington, DC- Today, in response to the U.S. House passing the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, the Patriotic Millionaires released a video statement featuring several of their members. Their responses to the plan ranged from “Republican Feudalism” to “Welfare for the Wealthy.”

Patriotic Millionaire Eric Schoenberg doubled down on a charge he made in a recent Stuart Varney appearance which received 13 million views on Facebook and forced a response from the Fox Host. “For the last 30 years, every time Congress has gone in to change the tax system, I have come out ahead,” said Mr. Schoenberg.

Patriotic Millionaire Chair Morris Pearl, a former BlackRock, Inc. Managing Director said, “Giving a tax break to a small number of the very richest people might help a small number of the very richest people, but it certainly is not going to help anyone else.”

“When men and women sit down a year from now to fill out that first Trump tax return, they’re going to have their hearts broken,” said Patriotic Millionaire Leo Hindery, Jr., Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners and former CEO of AT&T Broadband.

It’s very simple.

“When you give millionaires a tax cut, the middle class will pay.”

To schedule an interview or for further comment, please contact Sam Quigley atsam@patrioticmillionaires.org.

**WATCH THE VIDEO STATEMENT**

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About the Patriotic Millionaires

Proud “traitors to their class,” members of the Patriotic Millionaires are high-net worth Americans, business leaders, and investors who are united in their concern about the destabilizing concentration of wealth and power in America. The mission of The Patriotic Millionaires organization is to build a more stable, prosperous, and inclusive nation by promoting public policies based on the “first principles” of equal political representation, a guaranteed living wage for all working citizens, and a fair tax system. You can find out more at http://patrioticmillionaires.org/about/

The Patriotic Millionaires have appeared on hundreds of media outlets here and abroad, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the PBS NewsHour, The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and many others. You can find more coverage at http://patrioticmillionaires.org/media

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posted December 18, 2017 02:38 AM            

"Almost eleven hundred pages long, the final bill is just as regressive and fiscally irresponsible as either of the two earlier bills, and it is argquably more so.” #TaxScam#NotOnePenny https://t.co/qFECJwCWdu

"At its center is a huge tax cut for corporations and unincorporated business partnerships—such as the ones that Donald Trump owns—while arrayed around the edges are all sorts of carve-outs and giveaways to favored industries and interest groups.”

The Final Version of the G.O.P. Tax Bill Is a Corrupt, Cruel, Budget-Busting Hairball

Absent from the bill are revenue neutrality, simplicity, and fairness—three elements that congressional leaders promised to deliver when they urged Americans to embrace tax reform.

newyorker.com

posted December 18, 2017 02:54 AM            

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/15/u-s-lawmakers-are-redistributing-income-from-the-poor-to-the-rich-according-to-massive-new-study/?

posted December 18, 2017 05:01 PM            

Had ya'll seen the patriotic millionaires vid before i posted it here? What do you think? Doesn't it bust the GOP's shenanigans (read incessant lies) wide open?

posted December 18, 2017 05:34 PM            

Sen bob corker, who was holding out earlier, and 45 himself have gotten sweetheart deals behind closed doors so they're satisfied

This is going to be the impetus for the 2018 and 2020 blue wave...down w/ all the corrupt politicians

posted December 18, 2017 09:29 PM            

Do you think a grp of millionaires are lying when they say they don't want any more money, that it shld go to help the poor and disenfranchised?

Did you even watch/listen to their vid statement?

Thank goodness i don't get my "news flashes" from people like you.

And yes no question, in the minds 75% of americans...they ARE ramming it through, so that people don't get a chance to react.

If you think this is is a democratic process, then you cldn't be more wrong. If it was democratic, why do it behind closed doors, why the secret deals.

BASIC PREMISE - tax deficits are ALWAYS made up by the middle class and the poor.

And i'm NOT concerned by how much money people get back in their pockets for 1 miserable year. What abt the year aftr that? And the one aftr that?

The whole thing is a SCAM. You can continue supporting it, maybe you shld volunteer to make up the entire deficit since you favor it so much. That can be your life long charity. But don't expect that the poor will sit quiet and follow your lead.

posted December 18, 2017 09:47 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Yes, and the year after that and that and that...for ten years, in fact. Because Dems won't vote for anything, we are only able to use budget measures that restrict us to ten years. I have to wonder if you actually believe much of what you say. This is a tax cut where most Americans will pay zero. The personal exemption is doubled. The childcare credit is doubled. People with children who owe no income will still be able to get $1,400. But it hurts the poor and middle class? Where do you get your facts from? Yes, it also is a boon for corporations, being that businesses are the ones who give the poor and middle class jobs.

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All this is a bunch of baloney! Keep sipping this koolaid. Corporations doing anything good for the poor...maybe that thought will keep you warm, it's going to do nothing for the poor

posted December 18, 2017 11:27 PM            

What goes up must come down. The economy grew 12% you say? And how much did it shrink practically overnight?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)

posted December 19, 2017 12:30 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Reagan's tax cuts created 12% growth in just over a year. A thriving economy helps all of us. Corporations actually help the poor all the time, including reducing global poverty and philanthropy. I'd post links, but you know how to Google. Do it fast before they start charging per search. We all know the end of the internet is near and nigh upon us. But creating jobs is the biggest impact.

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Reagan, the actor, is ancient history, you can continue living in his story, i prefer to live in the present, and see w/ my own eyes what corporate greed does to the middle class. Hello? If they were so philanthropic why is the middle class continuously shrinking. Gov of illinois said he wanted to run illinois like a business and we can see the tragic consequences of that business (by we i mean those of us connected to real reality instead of an alternate one)

Puerto rico was left to be run like a business by corporations and they extracted EVERYTHING they cld from it. And aside from tesla, branson and a few good millionaires, NO ONE, not even the govt, run by a so called businessman, lifted a finger to help PR when they were/are still dying. The navy ships were sitting idle while he kept saying asinine things abt how it was difficult to get to puerto rico bc...you know, it's like, like an island...you know, and there's all this ocean in between. NEVER in my whole life have i been so embarrassed to watch someone excuse themselves while not wanting to help their own countrymen. And you're so cut off from reality that you thought i was making up the # of puerto ricans dead. It's more than 1100. The morgues are overflowing w/ bodies. But you preferred to accuse me of fear mongering rather than trying to get real information (no not from google) So you carry on floating in your pretty little bubble abt how good and philanthropic corporations are, but you can count me out. I'm a realist first and foremost, I prefer to know abt real life examples of what corporations can do

And there's nothing you can say that will prevent me from looking at current reality...this tax bill is going to he paid for by the middle class and the poor. The end. Spread over many years the middle class and the poor will continue to slave, more than ever before, to pay off the tax breaks the rich are being given. Anything to the contrary that you believe in is your own reality, bc you buy into anything the GOP says no matter how horrendous.

The koch brothers threatened to withhold 800 million of their dark money from the 2018 elections unless this bill passes. So the GOP must deliver these tax breaks in the billions to them, or the repubs will lose in 2018. What the GOP greed is preventing them from seeing is that the whole country is watching...w/ 75% against this bill, it is very myopic on the GOP's part to think that people will lovingly allow them to retain their seats

Like i said i prefer to learn from real people dealing w/ real money, people who are real millionaires, who don't feel pressured by greed, and who know that one day evyone has to leave and they can't take property, yatchs, private jets, stocks and shares w/ them. These are people who are american patriots and they are saying, we are rich, we don't need anymore handouts. THEY are unusual bc they are non conformists and haven't been programmed. So THEY have my attention, not you, bc you're too afraid to step outside the shadow of the GOP and make your own choices. It's an immature love you have for your party, but that's your business.

[They also have my respect, bc anyone who can put aside ego and fear to speak the truth, has my respect]

posted December 19, 2017 03:41 PM            

I also don't listen to people who put party above all else, bc such a strong identification w/ an organization is a classic ex of someone operating from their base 3 chakras. As far as parroting what others say, i see you doing nothing but that in all your posts...you parrot evything your party says. Nothing in your posts is different from the rest of the GOP.

I think before you try and give me a lesson in economics, maybe try and remove your internal fear blocks first? Bc the noise of that fear is overwhelming for me. I cannot focus on anything you say bc i'm flooded w/ so much fear energy from you

posted December 19, 2017 04:45 PM            

It is from your place of fear that you think doug jones is a baby killer. You have difficulty seeing people for who they are. That's what party affiliation will do to you...you see no problem in controlling a woman's decision along w/ her doctor's...abt the necessity for terminating late pregnancies for medical reasons. The desire to control comes from fear. That's why i said i was appalled at your posts in the roy moore thread, bc your responses were so fear based

When i was last on LL a couple of yrs ago, your energy was not so hard, it has become harder now. Up to you to decide if you wany to change it. You're definitely disconnected from your true source.

posted December 19, 2017 05:04 PM            

Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. The legislation raised revenue by $98 billion over three years in response to a looming deficit of $200 billion. Reagan, who agreed that the tax hike was needed, took New York Representative Jack Kemp, a supply-side zealot, “to the woodshed” when the congressman voiced his opposition in a private meeting, according to one staffer. Dole, with Reagan’s support, won the battle. This was the largest peacetime tax hike since World War II.....