Guest post by Joe Hoft
(Above picture from 2010 when Democrats voted for the largest tax increase in US history – Obamacare.)
Democrats are at it again. On November 16, 2017, the US House voted on the tax cut and jobs act.
227 Republicans voted for tax cuts for working Americans.
0 Democrats voted for tax cuts for working Americans.
On December 2, 2017, the US Senate voted 51 – 49 for the tax cut and jobs act.
51 Republicans voted for tax cuts for working Americans.
0 Democrats voted for tax cuts for working Americans.
On December 4, 2017, the US House voted to send the Tax Cut to conference.
222 Republicans voted for the tax cuts for working Americans.
0 Democrats voted for the tax cuts for working Americans.
In total up to today, over the past two months, the US Congress voted for tax cuts for US citizens three times. Every one of these votes was needed in order to lower taxes for hard working Americans!
Republicans have garnered 500 votes for tax breaks for Americans while Democrats have not raised one single vote for tax cuts for Americans. On the other hand, Democrats have unanimously voted for tax increases by 425 votes.
Today the House and the Senate are expected to vote again on Trump’s tax cuts.
The US House just passed tax cuts for the working class.
191 Democrats voted against tax cuts for the House tax bill.
227 Republicans voted for the enormous tax cuts.
That increased the total to 616 Democratic votes against the Middle Class tax cuts.
UPDATE: On Tuesday night the US Senate voted for the historic Middle Class tax cuts.
51 Republicans voted for the tax cuts to the Middle Class.
ZERO Democrats voted for the cuts. All 48 Democrats voted against the historic Middle Class tax cuts.
This gives us the Grand total:
664 Democrat Party votes AGAINST Middle Class tax cuts.
And ** 0 ** Democratic votes were cast for the historic tax cuts.
NOT ONE SINGLE DEMOCRAT BROKE RANKS TO BRING RELIEF TO THE MIDDLE CLASS!
(This does not include the GOP House do-over for the vote on Tuesday)