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Republicans are trying to pass the GOP tax overhaul by spending millions of dollars to persuade voters to support the new tax bill. However, Americans do not seem to like the bill. They believe that the bill would mostly help the rich elite and not the middle-class. A decent amount of Republicans were against it as only 60% approved, while 15% disapproved and 26% were unsure.
Furthermore, GOP donors are becoming impatient as there have been no huge victories by the Republican party concerning Obamacare and taxes. They told the Republican party to not contact them until it has done something noteworthy in the government.
I think that the people's view on the new GOP bill is good as people started to see the corruption inside the government. The cynical view concerning this new bill could help shape the government up into a better place if there is more backlash from the public.
Discussion: What is your view concerning this new GOP tax bill? What do you think the public should do about this bill?
Source:
LA Times
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I think the public sees this as a plan designed primarily and disproportionally to help the wealthy. In an article by the Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/11/gop-tax-bill-unpopular/546668/, it was pointed out that the big money donors who are disenamored with the GOP at the moment are the principle pressure behind this tax measure, and why the GOP has decided to go against the American public in their tax plan. I think this relates heavily to a lot of what we just studied, specifically the theory of elitism and the influence of money in politics. It seems here that GOP leaders who's campaigns are funded by big money donors are being heavily influenced by them, which has resulted in the current plan. While this may not be the only explanation, it does fit in nicely to the elitist theory and does hold a lot of ground in the situation. I think this might spell bad news for the GOP, because while campaigns are expensive, going so starkly against public opinion in this case and so clearly favoring the wealthy will be bad with voters, and might end up going agains them in the end.
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