TPW News Roundup: Sanders vs Cruz Debate Reaction, How Climate Change and Wars Are Increasing World Hunger & More
Sen. Bernie Sanders went head-to-head with Sen. Ted Cruz in a CNN town hall debate on the Republican Party’s tax plan on Wednesday night.
The polarizing topic has been at the center of Capitol Hill, as lawmakers have attempted to reform the tax code. Republicans, in an effort to pass the tax code, have explored trying to pass tax reform without Democratic support; while Democrats have complained that they have been left out of a crucial, bipartisan process in governing.
Included in the GOP tax plan is a 20% corporate tax rate, the elimination of the estate tax, and the implementation of three tax brackets.
Cruz defended the plan, saying on CNN, “Republicans want to lower the taxes for each and every person watching this debate,” and said that lowering the corporate tax rate would allow businesses to create more jobs.
Sanders, however, said the GOP’s tax plan is about giving “tax breaks to people who don’t need it.” The senator said he supports “a tax cut for the middle class and working families.”
Throughout the evening, the two senators threw several verbal jabs at each other’s expense.
As you can read In the liveblog below, the Bernie vs Cruz buget debate went as one might expect. (Bernie knows what he’s talking about and articulates it, Cruz does very little of either) There’s plenty of quotes, and tweets and all that stuff you might enjoy, so you may want to go check it out. I’ll be posting reactions articles in the comments but just incase you missed it and have time to spare, here it is:
https://youtu.be/tAZGxRmxMH0
(If this copy gets taken down I’ll find another version… because yet again for some reason these kind of things never make it to the MSM of your choices Youtube page)
More progressive news/video/etc. in the comments including:
*Mnuchin Gives Away the Game: “It’s Very Hard Not to Give Tax Cuts to the Wealthy”
*Cash In: Sanders Leads Pack in Fundraising
*Bernie Sanders leads Joe Biden in 2020 New Hampshire poll
*Pruitt Threatens to ‘Purge’ Scientists Who Refuse to Be Fossil Fuel Puppets
*Why Are Incarcerated Women Battling California Wildfires for as Little as $1 a Day?
*Pipeline updates, Water Protector, Indigenous News & More
Tips, Comments, Complaints, Etc!
Thanks to last nights livebloggers!
‘Robin Hood’ and other key takeaways from the Ted Cruz-Bernie Sanders tax debate
Cruz, Sanders debate tax reform in CNN town hall
Yeah, especially the estate tax. Arseholes like the Kochs, tRumps, Mellons, Bushes, Clintons (they wish), you-get-the-drift are obsessed with eliminating it. That way their worthless heirs pay nothing to inherit. Beyond absurd! T and R to the usual suspects!! 🙂
Beyond! Like they need the money!
Bernie Sanders vs. Ted Cruz: Who Won the Tax Debate? [POLL]
Currently sitting at 79% Sanders.
In tax debate, Ted Cruz aims to make Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren the face of Democrats
Thanks Ted!
Ted SS-is-a-Ponzi-scheme Cruz. He thinks Warren is liberal? Is there a better phrase than ‘genetically stupid’ to describe this cretin?
Haha, Cruz sounds like a fake preacher half the time, and spouts lies and puts words in people’s mouths the other half of the time.
Cash In: Sanders Leads Pack in Fundraising
Bernie Sanders leads Joe Biden in 2020 New Hampshire poll
Bernie Sanders Is Coming to Somerville
DNC resolution pressures Sanders to join Democrats
Yes “runs around” and “screaming” tells me all I need to know about this Mulholland joker.
Mulholland saying that Bernie is “screaming at people” is pure unadulterated bullshit meant to trigger HC supporters who can’t handle Bernie’s message so resort to shallow attacks about Bernie ‘wagging’ his finger and whatnot.
Also, Mulholland sure didn’t gain too many fans on the left side of the spectrum by saying this:
Not to mention that the fact that TPTB do everything they can to KEEP the number of “teams” to two, which is part of why so little progress happens! They get to keep up with the ‘us vs. them’ false scenario. Both major parties LOVE that! Good for fundraising and keeping people in line.
Another thing. Hey! Mulholland! I thought you ‘resist’ people were all about impeaching Trump! Shouldn’t you have said that 2020 will be a battle against Pence?!
Standing on the Sidelines, unlike Sec Clinton who is helping elect a Mayor in Birmingham, elect a mayor in Atlanta, holding televised debates for MCA, Taxes, etc. Putting on press conferences on gun bump bans, ripping into GOP corruption on the house floor, speaking at womens conferences as well as travelling promoting local candidates, etc, etc. Sideline Sanders…yeah, that so fits….
At this point I almost wish the Bernie would take a break and rest up!
But I’m glad to hear that he’s now focusing more on local races.
Bernie Sanders Shouldn’t Become a Democrat
The truth is that the Democratic Party needs the Vermont Senator more than he needs them.
uh huh
Bernie has more money right now than the whole DNC. Almost twice as many people like Bernie (57%) than identify as Democrats (30%).
Seems like we’re more of a party than the DNC is.
May I ask? How can DNC raise $46 million (in first nine months of 2017) and only have $6.8 million in ‘cash on hand’?
Here’s hoping Turd Wayer Mulholland bites the dust. He can also take the DNC and stick it where the sun don’t shine!!
Rewarding Brazile for her giving the questions to Hillary in advance shows that the DNC has learned absolutely nothing. Tom Perez magnifies his incompetence with this maneuver! This surely will help the anemic fundraising!
How Climate Change and Wars Are Increasing World Hunger
Natural Laws in action regarding human overpopulation. BTW, WWJD?
Sorry you’ll have to click the link for the charts:
Two Graphs Explain Why California’s Wildfires Will Only Get Worse
September 2017: Earth’s 4th Warmest September on Record
By appointing Pruitt to lead the EPA Trump is attempting to MAHA (make America HOTTER again).
Boss brought up a golf course that burned up that just a week earlier had held a PGA event (if I got him right), said that he’d seen Fox news covering that fire and said they called it a “crime scene”. So he was under impression that the fire had been set intentionally.
Very misleading of Fox, they are contributing to climate change denial!
Of course Fox is very good at contributing to ignorance in general..
Mnuchin Gives Away the Game: “It’s Very Hard Not to Give Tax Cuts to the Wealthy”
Nothing like still another arrogant, stupid, rich biped! UGH!
Leonardo DiCaprio Invests in Plant-Based Food Company
I love peas and I love beets, so maybe I’ll try this if it’s not too expensive (I rarely eat beef as it is). Has anyone every tried them? I just googled and the burgers go for around $12/lb apparently.
The closest plant item that tasted like beef that I’ve ever had was some grilled portobella mushrooms. They way they were prepared, if you closed your eyes you could have been fooled into thinking you were eating grilled steak.
Portobello Mushrooms Grilled Like a Steak
Grill, slice, serve over greens, yum.
DiCaprio is very smart, plus he’s gaining more and more green cred.
He worked with Thom Hartmann on The 11th Hour years ago, and has been doing good things for the climate for probably even longer. Wish more stars would find the time to care about something. It’s not like Leo’s lacking in the ‘having fun’ department either.
World’s First Floating Wind Farm Will Power 20,000 Homes
Why Are Incarcerated Women Battling California Wildfires for as Little as $1 a Day?
Video @ Link
Warnings of ‘Big Pharma Coup’ as Trump Considers Drug Exec. for Health Secretary
With media reports indicating that President Donald Trump is leaning toward selecting former pharmaceutical industry executive Alex Azar to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen warned in a statement Wednesday that Azar’s appointment would essentially complete “Big Pharma’s coup of the healthcare sphere.”
“Just days after denouncing ‘out-of-control’ drug prices, President Donald Trump appears set to show he doesn’t mean it by naming a former pharmaceutical company executive to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,” said Public Citizen president Robert Weissman. “In his public statements, Alex Azar has made clear that he is opposed to measures to restrain drug company profiteering and limit improper marketing and favors weaker drug safety approval standards.”
Azar spent a decade as an executive with the pharma giant Eli Lilly, where he directed the company’s sales operations. Before joining Eli Lilly, Azar served as deputy secretary of the HHS under George W. Bush.
As Politico reports, Azar also happens to be “one of the many drug industry executives” who contributed to Trump’s presidential campaign—a fact that runs counter to the president’s frequent criticism of elected officials who take cash from pharma executives.
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