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You should probably be asking Biden then,
(Sep 10, 2020) Joe Biden pledges to roll back Trump's corporate tax cuts on 'day one,'
(March 22, 2021) Why Biden won’t be able to totally undo Trump’s tax cuts
(September 13, 2021) Democrats Hope To Undo Many Trump Tax Cuts To Fund Biden's $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan
(Aug 11, 2022) Democrats ran on undoing Trump's tax cuts for the rich. But they're here to stay.
(June 18, 2024) Biden ramps up push to end Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy, highlighting the choice in the 2024 election
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I read the comments above, I saw @ModestMeme@lemm.ee with 18 upvotes and 1 downvote. I was confused and decided to look up an article so I'm not just blindly tucking something false into the back of my head (conservative relatives and area, I have to have my shit together when I'm talking in public around here).
I just spent the last 2 hours, for you beautiful fuckers, going down all these rabbit holes and reading article after article and constructing this timeline instead of making fried rice. Please don't be like ModestMeme and at least put one singular link up if you're trying to declare something as factual. You might find in your search that you were misinformed and let everyone know for the love of god. We need to keep our facts and shit together so we can all push forward together without misconstruing how we got here in the first place.
Holy fucking receipts mackerel! Well done. This is going into my archive for future reference. 🙏
On a less exciting note, this perfectly demonstrates how the ratchet works. Republicans take a step benefiting the owner class, then Democrats plan to undo it but somehow fail keeping a veneer of plausible deniability. Rinse and repeat while the working class gets poorer and poorer.
Yeah, I made sure to present the tax numbers because it's a two step back, one step forward as always. It might not even matter though. Still got ModestMeme and others defending the situation. I'm just so fucking flabbergasted. Like if they're working for them I get it, some random person just deciding that no matter what they say it's not their fault? And they don't understand how people could vote for Trump?!?
Unfortunately, that seems to be the process. You make arguments, hope it gets someone's brain gears turning a bit. Maybe next time around they do or say something different. One doesn't deprogram from any single online comment. I'm pretty sure that a few years ago I'd have thought and said what ModestMeme did.
The President can’t write a law or simply decree a law to be over. That’s up to Congress. Not the President.
Congress did indeed have a couple years of the slimmest margin of Democratic control. But Democrats aren’t all the same. There is a range of ideology and ultimately they’re not in lock step with each other. And in some cases, they behave not strictly as a Democrat normally would behave, or as those here on Lemmy want them to behave. Joe Manchin, Krysten Sinema, and those in the so-called Blue Dog Coalition. Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard was another “Democrat” from this time period who wasn’t as left wing as we wished for…
You can blame the broad range of “Democrats” all you want. You can view a president as having direct control over law all you want. But that doesn’t account for individual differences within a party that with such a slim margin, can derail national progress. Vote. Every election. Especially the small ones. Good candidates start at the local level.
Jesus ModestMeme..... I think your stupidity broke my brain
The President can’t write a law or simply decree a law to be over. That’s up to Congress. Not the President.
You can view a president as having direct control over law all you want.
> BIDEN: No, no, no, no, I'd make the changes on the corporate taxes on day one.
IT"S A MOTHER FUCKING TRANSCRIPT OF HIS EXACT WORDS!!! HE"S THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE REPRESENTING THE DNC AS A WHOLE!!
This is the exact problem people have with the democratic party that you just seem to hand wave away. They're saying whatever shit they want and NOT FOLLOWING THROUGH BECAUSE IT WAS A HOLLOW PROMISE THEY LIED ABOUT AND NEVER SHOULD HAVE SAID!!
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/what-is-an-executive-order-and-how-does-it-work#%3A%7E%3Atext=Statutes+have+to+be+passed%2Cspending%2C+and+certain+war+powers.
Biden can ask of Congress anything on day one -as any president can- but he can not write a law. You can take Biden’s words to mean that he himself was going to decree a change to the tax code or you can accept that his words were confined to his executive powers to ask Congress to do this.
I don’t know why sooo many people confuse the power of the president with that of a dictator. If a president can decree a law then why the fuck do we have a Congress?!
Ok the link didn’t load as expected… Fourth paragraph is the relevant part on law. The rest of the article is pretty interesting as well.