Comment by ozmodiar
15 days ago
One thing they do is allow him to raise taxes on the middle class and poor, who will be paying those tarrifs, while lowering the taxes for the rich. Everyone's talking about some 3D chess when "more money for the rich" has always been the only consistent Republican policy.
> when "more money for the rich" has always been the only consistent Republican policy.
You probably want to be more careful with how you phrase that. The Republican party passed the Civil Rights Act and ended slavery, among other things.
Those may not be the type of Republicans you are thinking of today, but they still had that little (R) next to their names.
> The Republican party passed the Civil Rights Act
Way more Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for it than Republicans (to be fair the Democrats held the Senate 67-33). A Democratic president signed it. His Democratic predecessor asked for it. How do you figure "the Republicans did it"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_pa...