The Republican Agenda 2021 and Forward

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Senate GOP Agenda Would Hike Taxes on Poorest 40% by Average of $1,000 | Common Dreams

By contrast, the plan unveiled by Republican Sen. Rick Scott would not increase taxes on the top 1% by a single penny.
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Hey, they finally have a platform!!

And when you vote for them to stick it to libtards you are also endorsing this tax plan. But I guess you’re probably not poor. Economically you probably are but you’re rich in Jesus!
 
Chew Toy McCoy said:
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Senate GOP Agenda Would Hike Taxes on Poorest 40% by Average of $1,000 | Common Dreams

By contrast, the plan unveiled by Republican Sen. Rick Scott would not increase taxes on the top 1% by a single penny.
www.commondreams.org www.commondreams.org

Hey, they finally have a platform!!

And when you vote for them to stick it to libtards you are also endorsing this tax plan. But I guess you’re probably not poor. Economically you probably are but you’re rich in Jesus!
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I hope this turns out to be political suicide by the GOP. A lot of people vote Republican solely because of low taxes.
 
SuperMatt said:
I hope this turns out to be political suicide by the GOP. A lot of people vote Republican solely because of low taxes.
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Probably not.

You have to remember those particular republican voters think they are voting for lower taxers, oblivious they are voting for a party that will allow companies to nickle & dime them, raise prices as they wish, and shield them from legal liabilities. So yes, big gov't is out of their pockets, and starved of money to do anything for it's poorer constituents. But yeah, their paycheck is bigger to pay for more expensive things.

Also to cover up for that, if any of those voters wisen up,
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"LET'S GET READY FOR A CULTURE WAAAARRRR!!!!"
 
Listening to Joe Walsh’s latest podcast episode he asked that people never forget all the right-wing politicians and news personalities who reflexively sided with Putin the minute he invaded Ukraine. Sighting his own experience in Congress, he mentioned how representatives often ask for constituents’ polls or focus groups on an issue before they chime in with their opinion. There are times when something is just flat out wrong and you don’t need to test the wind to call it out. This is one of those times. These representatives are weak contrarian drones void of any moral compass.

Also interesting to note, if politicians pay so much attention to polls they seem to not give a fuck about them when it comes to spending any money to help the average American. For that they only pay attention to lobbyists.
 
From the champions of "freedom", "Liberty", and "self responsibility over the rights of others", come the makers of a future dystopia that removes personal rights....

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Red States Are Now Trying to Trap Residents Into Their Own Laws

“It really goes against basic understanding of being an American,” one law professor told Jezebel.
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As if it weren’t bad enough to have your own state ban basic health care options, red states are now trying to prohibit their residents from traveling to other places to access procedures Republicans don’t like.

Missouri is trying to prevent its residents from having out-of-state abortions. Idaho is trying to prevent parents from taking their trans kids to other states for gender-affirming procedures. This is the unprecedented and, frankly, crazy result of the Supreme Court giving its blessing to Texas’ six-week abortion ban, which is enforced with a bounty hunter provision that encourages citizens to spy on and sue each other.

For more than six months, Texas has allowed private citizens to sue anyone who aids or abets an abortion in the state and, as a result, abortion providers have halted all abortions after six weeks. Banning abortion that early in pregnancy is (for now) unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court has repeatedly refused to block S.B. 8, owing to its novel enforcement mechanism.
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Now, after seeing the legal success of Texas’s “sue-thy-neighbor” bill, Republican lawmakers are attempting to use its framework to not only ban abortion and gender-affirming care, but prohibit people from leaving their home states to obtain these life-saving procedures in elsewhere. That these proposals to trap people in their states are coming from the allegedly pro-freedom and anti-government interference party would be a funny bout of irony if the proposals weren’t so deadly.
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This week, the Idaho House passed H.B. 675, which would make it a felony punishable by up to life in state prison to provide transgender teens with puberty-blockers, hormones, and gender-affirming surgeries. It would also ban parents or guardians of trans teens from taking them out of state for this care. The bill now heads to the Idaho Senate.

In Missouri, state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman attached an eight-page amendment to H.B. 1677—a bill originally about prescription drug prices—which would allow private citizens to sue anyone who performs an abortion on a Missouri resident, possesses or distributes abortion pills, and aids or abets a Missouri abortion patient regardless of where the abortion is performed. The majority of Missouri residents who get abortions have traveled to Illinois and other states for care. The Missouri bill has not yet had a floor vote.
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Because nothing says "freedom" like the state giving itself the right to prevent the movements of citizens for "reasons". It's like finding reasons to "own" someone?

Any lawsuits filed under bills like these would rely on surveillance of people’s movements and medical care. On first reading, both seem unconstitutional. But that’s what experts said about S.B. 8 when it initially came before the court in September, and the Supreme Court upheld it. Legal experts said the same about Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that will likely overturn or severely hamper Roe v. Wade. That case involves a 2018 Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks, well before Roe’s standard of fetal viability which is about 22-24 weeks of pregnancy. The only thing that has changed since 2018 is the ideological balance of the Supreme Court.

“It was only a matter of time, honestly. Using the mechanism of private enforcement first seen in SB 8, Missouri has gone further—allowing individuals to sue those who provide aid to those seeking an abortion, including abortions that would be conducted outside of Missouri’s jurisdictional boundaries,” said Melissa Murray, a professor at New York University School of Law and an expert in reproductive rights and family law.
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These attempts at legislating activities across state lines seem illegal on their face because states don’t have that power—only Congress does. But, since the Supreme Court’s ultra-conservative supermajority has shown no interest in protecting privacy rights like abortion, what’s to say the Bill of Rights and other amendments are just another nuisance to be ignored?

If these hostage schemes prove successful, gerrymandered conservative legislators could use the framework to ban other fundamental freedoms like the ability to marry the partner of your choosing or even use birth control. In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court reaffirmed a constitutional right to privacy rooted in the 14th Amendment that it originally found in a 1965 case, Griswold v. Connecticut, that allowed married couples to use birth control. Landmark cases legalizing same-sex relationships (Lawrence v. Texas, 2003) and marriage equality (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015) flow from the legal reasoning in both Roe and Griswold. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe in the term ending this June, those precedents would also be at risk and we could see states move to ban gay residents from getting married in other states. This is not a hypothetical concern: One Texas lawmaker asked the state Attorney General in October for his legal opinion on whether private citizens have to recognize same-sex marriages in the state.
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So from the party that endorse caravans of truckers to travel freely possibly unvaccinated to protest disappearing mask mandates, ...comes you're not going anywhere because of a culture war or religious belief.

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