{"id":135736,"date":"2017-12-24T15:07:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T22:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135736"},"modified":"2018-01-08T07:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:30:41","slug":"white-house-merry-christmas-many-happy-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/24\/white-house-merry-christmas-many-happy-tax-returns.html","title":{"rendered":"A White House Merry Christmas to Some, and Many Happy Tax Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless all of a sudden a lot of lower- and middle-class people suddenly became members of Mar-a-Lago, there seems to be a contradiction between Trump’s previous vigorous assertions that the GOP tax cuts were only benefiting those groups, and were of no help to the rich, and his present crowing to the Donor Class<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Trump kicked off his holiday weekend at Mar-a-Lago Friday night at a dinner where he told friends, “You all just got a lot richer,” referencing the sweeping tax overhaul he signed into law hours earlier. Mr. Trump directed those comments to friends dining nearby at the exclusive club — including to two friends at a table near the president’s who described the remark to CBS News — as he began his final days of his first year in office in what has become known as the “Winter White House.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump had previously averred<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to cost me a fortune, this thing, believe me,\u201d he said last month in Missouri while pitching the GOP tax bill. \u201cThis is not good for me. Me, it\u2019s not so \u2014 I have some very wealthy friends. Not so happy with me, but that\u2019s OK. You know, I keep hearing Schumer: \u2018This is for the wealthy.\u2019 Well, if it is, my friends don\u2019t know about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess now they do.<\/p>\n

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\n“You all just got a lot richer,” Trump tells friends, referencing tax overhaul – CBS News<\/a><\/span>
\nTrump kicked off his holiday weekend at Mar-a-Lago Friday night at a dinner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Unless all of a sudden a lot of lower- and middle-class people suddenly became members of Mar-a-Lago, there seems to be a contradiction between Trump’s previous vigorous assertions that the GOP tax cuts were only benefiting those groups, and were of no help to the rich, and his present crowing to the Donor Class. President … Continue reading “A White House Merry Christmas to Some, and Many Happy Tax Returns”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,358,376,1071],"tags":[1316,1247],"class_list":["post-135736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","category-trump","tag-plutocracy","tag-taxcuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unnamed-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133293,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/mar-a-lago-gets-a-vacation-at-new-jerseys-expense.html","url_meta":{"origin":135736,"position":0},"title":"Mar-a-Lago gets a vacation, at New Jersey's expense","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Apr-17 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"And I mean literal expense.Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida country club resort and regular weekend getaway, will be shutting down for the season (who knew?), and the President is expected to instead spend his weekends at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.(I mean, he could spend his time, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133338,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/its-good-to-make-money-off-the-winter-white-house.html","url_meta":{"origin":135736,"position":1},"title":"it's GOOD to make money off the "Winter White House"","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Apr-17 5:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The problem here is that there are reasonable cases to be made on both sides. 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