GOP leaders have done their best to sweep an ugly – politically toxic ― secret under the rug: under current Congressional rules, their tax plan would force a quarter-trillion dollar cut in Medicare starting next year. Over ten years that amounts to a quarter-trillion dollars of Medicare cuts right at the same time that the baby boom generation is demanding more and more from Medicare. George Bush made the same kinds of promises when he got Congress to pass the Bush tax cuts after he was elected in 2000. And the ads that explain how they voted to cut Medicare to give tax cuts to the rich will be downright deadly. The combination of the GOP tax bill and their continued attempt to take away people’s health care will turn that wind into a gale.

Source: Huffington Post November 28, 2017 13:41 UTC