Which one is harder?

[Axtremus]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/15/tax-day-republicans-sell-big-beautiful-bill-00871677

The headline there is "... Republicans struggling to sell their cuts."

So a question popped into my mind: which one is harder? Selling a tax cut or bankrupting a casino?

Your thoughts?

[Bernard]

A recent Fox News poll found that seven in 10 voters believe their tax burden is too high, largely because the wealthy aren’t paying enough,

Not just that, but because wages are way too low.

Seems strange to me the article didn't mention the other items in the big ugly bill, like cuts to medicaid, medicare, SNAP, etc. to cover the cost of big tax breaks for the wealthy.

I hope it has become clearer to the average non-politically involved person that the modus operandi of the gop--their overall mindset--is not one that looks out for the average citizen. It is not one that takes into account the changes that have occurred in the past 100 years, but is one that tries to sell a pipe dream about the 'good old days'. Everything that man in the oval office and his administration and the gop have done the past year and a quarter has made life much worse for average Americans, and many people across the globe.

Vote them out!

[Daniel]

"Trickle down economics" was proved to be a hoax a very, very long time ago now. Yet it happened when the term was coined, ans has been happening ever since. Even the sometimes vaunted (although less so now) Obama administration engaged in it.

As to cuts-- they can't be "sold." They don't sell. It has to be something like bait and switch, distract, or outright lie.

This why it is said that austerity is "imposed." Yes, exactly.

Social Security, Medicare, etc. are overwhelmingly popular. It seems the politicians have chosen a death by a thousand cuts (sic) approach to attempting to kill them.