Redfish
Diamond Member
Election Rattles Congressional Republicans, and Their Agenda, While Buoying Democrats
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are in a bit of a bind.
Strong dissatisfaction with President Trump and the Republican-led Congress, as reflected in stunning election losses around the country on Tuesday, is certain to intensify the already-fevered push for a tax overhaul to prove that the party controlling Washington can finally get something done.
But passage of the proposal, which would drastically shrink the state and local tax deduction, would simultaneously put at grave risk the seats of Republicans in higher-tax states such as California, New York and New Jersey — the very lawmakers essential to maintaining the Republican hold on Congress.
“Tax cuts sound great, but tax cuts for the rest of the country while my constituents are getting a tax increase is a loser and it is wrong,” said Representative Peter King, Republican of New York.
He said the middle-class and blue-collar voters in his Long Island district who supported Mr. Trump last year now felt betrayed at the prospect of losing deductions that many of them rely on to hold their federal taxes down in a region with stiff local property and income taxes.
fake news, keep it up. those are the same people that told you Hillary had a 97% chance of winning.