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Rick Scott LEAKS the Republican Plan /// 11 Point Plan for an AMERICAN DYSTOPIA
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11:39Now PlayingProfessor Jonathan Bick and David discuss a couple of the points in Rick Scott's 11 point plan to rescue America. The GOP is not happy their game plan is leaked before the mid-term elections. Mitch McConnell does damage control.
(Episode 1328)
Thom Hartmann piece-
GOP's new plan: Raise taxes on working people, end Social Security and Medicare
Rick Scott believes he can get elected president on a program of making inequality great again. He may be right. Republicans want to raise taxes on poor and working-class Americans, end Social Security and Medicare, jack up pollution and corporate profits, all while continuing to pamper their billionaire donor base.
This time it's the guy in charge of getting Republican senators elected and re-elected, Florida Sen. Rick Scott.
You may remember him as the guy who ran the company convicted of the largest Medicare fraud in the history of America, who then took his money and ran for governor of Florida, where he prevented the state from expanding Medicaid for low-income Floridians for all the years he ran the state.
Now he's the second-richest guy in the senate and, IMHO, the leading candidate for the GOP nomination for president in 2024. And, true to form, he's echoing the sentiments of the richest guy in the Senate, Mitt Romney, the last guy before Trump to have that nomination.
"There are 47 percent who are with him," Romney said of Barack Obama's voters back in 2012, "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. These are people who pay no income tax."
Low income working people in America generally pay a higher percentage of their income as taxes than do most of our billionaires and multi-multi-millionaires. They pay Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, property taxes, sales taxes and taxes in the form of fees for everything from a driver's license to road tolls to annual car inspections.
As Romney pointed out, though, about 47 percent of Americans in 2012 made so little money that, after applying the standard deduction, they paid no income tax.
POLITICO-Sen. Rick Scott sparred with “Fox News Sunday” host John Roberts over the contents of Scott’s recently released “Rescue America” plan.
Discussing the plan, the Florida Republican accused Roberts of repeating Democratic talking points while Roberts insisted he was quoting directly from the language in Scott’s own 11-step policy plan.
“You recently put out an 11-point plan to rescue America,” Roberts said to Scott, while displaying text excerpts on the screen.
“Two of the big points of which are, ‘All Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game, even if a small amount. Currently over half of Americans pay no income tax.’ It also says: ‘All federal legislation sunsets in five years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.’ So that would raise taxes on half of Americans and potentially sunset programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Why would you propose something like that in an election year?”
Scott responded: “That’s, of course, the Democrat talking points.”
Roberts replied: ‘No, it’s in the plan! It’s in the plan!” As Scott continued to push back, Roberts added: “Hang on, senator, it’s not a Democratic talking point, it’s in the plan.”
Scott then retrenched and explained his thinking on those issues, adding: “Go through it, everybody’s not going to agree with everything, 120 policy points. Let’s be bold; go to rescueamerica.com, give me your ideas.”
Released last month, Scott’s plan was seen as a potential framework for helping Republicans regain control of the U.S. Senate in this year’s midterm elections along the lines of Newt Gingrich’s 1994 “Contract With America.” Scott is the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
“Hopefully, by doing this, we’ll have more of a conversation about what Republicans are going to get done. Because when we get the majority, I want to get something done,” Scott said at the time.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been critical of parts of the plan.
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