Marco Rubio expresses doubts about the tax reform bill he just voted for

Rubio admitted to reporters that the tax reform bill “probably went too far on (helping) corporations”


Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is publicly criticizing the same tax reform bill that he voted for.

"If I were king for a day, this tax bill would have looked different," Rubio told a reporter who asked him about his overall view of the Republican tax bill, according to News-Press. "I thought we probably went too far on (helping) corporations. By and large, you’re going to see a lot of these multinationals buy back shares to drive up the price. Some of them will be forced, because they’re sitting on historic levels of cash, to pay out dividends to shareholders. That isn’t going to create dramatic economic growth."

Rubio then went on to defend the bill by pointing out that it doubles the Child Tax Credit and claiming that "it is better – significantly better – than the current code." After explaining how he persuaded many of his fellow Republicans about the merits of the Child Tax Credit by proving that it wasn't welfare, Rubio then addressed the potential political ramifications of the bill.

"(People’s) opinion today is based on what they’ve read and what they’ve been told it does," Rubio told reporters. "But if I’m against the tax bill because I don’t think it’ll actually cut my taxes and I get my first paycheck in February and it has $200 in there that didn’t used to be there, I’m going to notice that. By the time we get to November of next year, their opinion about the tax bill is not going to be based on media coverage. It’s going to be based on what their paycheck is telling them."

https://www.salon.com/2017/12/29/marco-rubio-expresses-doubts-about-the-tax-reform-bill-he-just-voted-for/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spotim_referrer=recirculation

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Hard to forget the days when fake 45 would trickle down on fellow republican pee-ons like little Marco.

It must be upsetting that people can keep more of what they earn... or that corp taxes are a little more competitive globally... and that unreasonable regulations are being pared. Heads will explode if he starts cutting the central authoritarian govt. For a big ass clown... he's not doing such a bad job.

I sure wish he'd pull the plug on foreign aide and our standing army. Hopefully after isis gets wiped out. But I highly doubt it. Our country really needed Ron Paul... it's probably too late to prevent a statist State.

You can tell how awful 45 is for America just by reading what brain damaged goons think is good about him.

650 billion defense budget, and folks think people getting an extra 100 bucks a month are going to be too stupid to understand the cost of those small increased dollars while we put the same on the tab with defense spending to let our great grandchildren have their standard of living go into the trash can as we burden them with debt and NO real improvement in American investments in education and infrastructure. It was said on the Thom Harman radio show that the GI bill after wwII cost America 30 billion of today dollars which returned 300 billion to the economy.....a ten fold return for our investment, yet we take pride in getting a few more dollars stealing from our great grandchildren.......shame.

Marco is just like all the other Republicans out there who voted for the bill. He knew it was crap to start with but he did it to pay back his wealthy donors. Now he knows he's made lots of other promises, like fixing the infrastructure, and he can't really do it with this budget in place.
He's so DEEPLY sorry about all the money he gave away in the budget that he's going to try to remedy the problem by taking money away from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to make up for his mistake.
Because he knows, after all, that the infrastructure must be taken care of . He just forgot that for a teenie while when he voted to give the money away that the job could have been done with.

What damned liars the whole Republican party are.
It takes somebody dumber than a goat to still believe them.
I'm not naming any names though.  
BTW, that big old 2% Social Security increase that my husband and I got this month. He netted 17 dollars more in his check and I lost 10 dollars in mine because our Medicare premiums are paid from my check and they went up. Whoop-tee-dooo. Whatever will we do with that extra 7 bucks a month?
No, really, what CAN you do with $7 more a month? We can't both eat together at McDonalds for that.

bigdog wrote:

What damned liars the whole Republican party are.
It takes somebody dumber than a goat to still believe them.
I'm not naming any names though.  

Old goats that watch Fox News Pravda and believe right wing talk radio.

Telstar wrote:You can tell how awful 45 is for America just by reading what brain damaged goons think is good about him.

Indeed. The fact that he only pleases people who can barely even write is a pretty good indicator that he's a foul-up.

Meanwhile, Rubio is gutless. He's trying to do things, and then not be responsible for those things, simultaneously. "I voted for this, but I didn't want it." He trusts his base to find that sensical. And, given their level of acumen, he probably won't be disappointed.