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March 29, 2024

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Deciphering GOP catchphrases

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The Republican Party and its supporters have come up with lots of catchy buzz phrases. Here is a good one: “Broadening the tax base.”

Now, doesn’t that sound like a great idea? What broadening the tax base means is forcing the working poor (people earning under $12,000 annually) to pay income taxes. It also means eliminating the most common middle-class tax deductions. The benefit will be giving more tax cuts to the wealthy.

It will also continue to allow CEOs, such as Mitt Romney, to accumulate $100 million in an IRA and pay no taxes while the rest of us have a cap of $6,000 per year that we can contribute.

IRS rules enable corporations such as Wells Fargo, General Electric and Boeing, to pay no income taxes after reporting billions in profits. Now how does broadening the tax base benefit the middle class?

Another favorite buzz phrase is “saving Medicare.” Sounds heroic, doesn’t it? What it actually means is eliminating guaranteed health care for seniors and replacing it with a voucher program that will drive up the profits for the health insurance companies while adding additional costs for seniors.

Seniors cannot afford these additional costs, and this action will potentially flood the current population of 50 million people without health care by adding these seniors with no Medicare.

Does that sound like saving Medicare? What happened to the guarantee? What a lie.

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