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Hecuba's daughter12/25/2017 9:43:53 am PST

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re: #247 Anymouse 🌹

From No More Mister Nice Blog, an article on wealthy people grousing about the tax bill. Turns out wealthy people in blue states don’t like it very much.

Wasn’t Trump always resentful that the elite of New York society never really accepted him? So this is real payback. OTOH, I don’t know how much influence Trump had on this particular bill as opposed to Ryan and McConnell, but I have to suspect, given the treatment of real estate pass-through it may have been quite deliberate. And the Republicans hate blue states anyway and want to punish them. A few days ago someone posted on this site an Eichenwald article(?) twitter (?) that showed someone earning 20 million per year would be getting a 200,000 tax increase in a blue state and a 400,000 tax decrease in a red state. My income taxes are definitely increasing and my state Illinois has modest income taxes.

My fervent hope is that every blue state Republican loses in 2018 and that it’s a bloodbath nationwide.