The only people who matter weigh in on their Dear Leader’s tax cutsby digby
I know you were dying to hear what Trump voters think about the Trump tax cuts and the AP comes through! They are the most important people in the whole wide world, after all. I know it will shock you to learn that they like ’em.
“I believe we’re in the process of making America great,” Martel said, echoing Trump’s campaign slogan. “We’re changing a lot of the policies that were done with Obama, and I’m not really concerned about how it was done and finding out what’s in the bill after it was passed.”
Rich George, a farmer outside Detroit who boards horses, expressed hope that the tax plan’s provisions for the wealthy will ultimately help him because they will benefit his upper-income clients. He dismisses studies that show the tax plan will swell federal deficits by more than $1 trillion over a decade, even after accounting for any additional economic growth the tax cuts help produce.
“When they talk about, ‘This is going to add trillions of dollars to the deficit,’ I know it’s not going to happen,” George said. “You’re going to give people more money. They’re going to do more business. There’s going to be more people employed. There’s going to be more commerce. Manufacturing is going to go up.”
Some Trump supporters in Iowa said that for now at least, they were choosing to focus on the bright side.
“They needed to get a legislative win,” Heather Kruse, a 34-year-old physician in an affluent Des Moines suburb, said of Republicans.
She acknowledged that the tax plan’s passage was “hastily done.”
Like many voters, Kruse said she didn’t know most of the details and was disappointed by the reports that it won’t likely help the middle class much. But Kruse said she was cautiously hopeful that the benefits of lower taxes for companies would resonate beyond corporate America.
“If that’s true that it makes us more competitive in the global market, I can see that being a positive thing,” she said,
There were a few who were skeptical. But for the most part they trust their Dear Leader is helping them. And they are the only people who matter.
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