It’s only been a day since NRSC Chairman Rick Scott released the 11 point plan that Senate Republicans will pass if they retake the majority, and the bad headlines are already piling up.
When Senator Scott released the Senate Republicans’ agenda, he probably thought that everyone would react the same way his wealthy donors did. Unfortunately for him and Senate Republicans, Americans see right through his plan and know that it will allow greedy corporations to continue to price gouge to exacerbate inflation, raise taxes on half of all Americans, specifically single mothers and retirees, and make it easier for the wealthy and corporations to cheat on their taxes.
We can only imagine these were not the reviews Rick Scott was hoping to wake up to this morning:
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“[I] don’t understand embracing or saddling [the] GOP with a tax increase.”
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“Scott — the wealthiest member of Congress, with a fortune of a quarter-billion dollars, who was chief executive of a hospital chain that committed the largest Medicare fraud in history to that date — thinks it’s too hard for rich people to cheat on their taxes.”
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“In the economic section of his plan, Scott also proposed that “all Americans should pay some income tax to have skin in the game, even if a small amount”—a point Democrats zeroed in on as a threat to increase taxes on the lowest-income Americans and working class.”
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“Here’s the pledge that really takes the cake: “All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.” Presumably this would include the Social Security Act, the Medicare law, the Civil Rights Act, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the immigration and criminal laws Scott is so determined to enforce with the maximum degree of viciousness.”
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“The 11-point plan calls for new taxes on tens of millions of Americans, by rekindling the same issue that led Mitt Romney to stumble into his “47 percent” gaffe.”
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“Privately, officials from some top Republican Senate campaigns mocked the plan, questioning why the Florida Republican senator released it in the first place — and why the GOP would ever suggest raising taxes at all during a midterm year”
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“There’s also a call to “prohibit debt ceiling increases absent a declaration of war.” So it’s a call to default on the federal debt, which isn’t good for the economy. Or—and this would be the more fun read—he’s saying that in order to get his vote on a necessary debt ceiling increase, he’s first going to need to see that declaration of war.”
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