DAYTON, Ohio—The U.S. Senate Republicans’ chaotic late-night vote Friday to overhaul the tax system widened the country’s partisan divisions Saturday — sparking a political grudge match that lawmakers vowed to carry into next year’s midterm elections. Democrats see an opening for an attack on U.S. President Donald Trump and Republicans as allies of the wealthy and Wall Street interests. Republicans were “deluding themselves,” said former Obama strategist David Axelrod, to think that voters would reward them for a tax cut. That makes it slightly less popular than the 1993 tax increase that helped Republicans seize Congress from President Bill Clinton’s Democrats. “That’s because we’re going to cut taxes on American businesses so they will compete for workers, they’ll raise salaries.”Democrats see it differently, with the tax bill at the centre of their increasingly populist campaign.

Source: thestar December 03, 2017 03:00 UTC