WASHINGTON (Washington Insider Magazine) – When a Republican senator and rumoured presidential candidate argued that tax increases in his own “11 point plan to rescue America” were “Democratic talking points,” he found himself in hot water.
On Fox News Sunday, his interviewer exclaimed, “No, no, it’s in the plan!” “It’s all part of the plan!”
Rick Scott, is a former healthcare CEO from Florida, guilty to 14 charges linked to fraudulent acts at his organisation. ” Most happened under Scott’s leadership,” according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
When Scott was governor of Florida, his administration presided over the effective freezing of $70 million in federal money available for tackling the state’s HIV issue, according to the Guardian.
Scott defeated an incumbent Democrat for a Senate seat in the year 2018 and currently serves as chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which is attempting to take control of the Senate in the midterm elections.
Scott issued an “11 Point Plan to Rescue America” last month. It recommends that more Americans pay federal income tax, and it claims that Congress might “sunset” social security and Medicare in five years, allowing them to expire.
The plan was quickly slammed.
Scott’s plan, according to the nonpartisan Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy (Itep), “would increase taxes by more than $1,000 on average for the poorest 40% of Americans.”
Itep also mentioned the impact Scott’s plan would have on Republican heartlands, saying that the states most affected would be “Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Georgia, New Mexico, South Carolina, and… Florida,” where “more than 40% of residents would face tax increases.”
They would not have as part of their agenda a package that raised taxes on half of the Americans and sunsets Medicare and social security within five years, said the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell.
A Washington Post columnist, Dana Milbank, believes Scott has delivered Democrats a much-needed election-year gift.
“All Democrats need to do is repeat Scott’s own words,” he tweeted, referring to a plan that would also decrease trade with China and cut tax-gathering resources.
Why would he propose something like that in an election year, asked John Roberts of Fox News Sunday asked Scott.
Roberts, according to Scott, was repeating “Democrat talking points.”
“No, no, it’s in the plan!”
“Roberts explained. “It’s all part of the plan!” ”
“But here’s the thing about reality for a second,” Scott remarked.
“But, Senator, wait a minute,” Roberts responded. This isn’t a Democratic talking point at all! It’s all part of the plan! ”
They needed to talk about exactly how they were going to fix Social Security and Medicare every year, Scott said, adding that no one that he knew of wanted to sunset.
“Here’s what’s unfair about my tax plan,” he added. They had people who could go to work but had figured out how to get the government to pay for them. That was not the case. They needed to have their skin in the game. It made no difference to him if it was a dollar. This was something they should all be working on together.
Scott is supposedly Donald Trump’s preference to succeed McConnell as Senate leader, although there is no indication that this will happen.
Scott was asked if he was labelling McConnell a coward in a Wall Street Journal editorial titled “Why I’m Defying Beltway Cowardice.” He sidestepped the subject by claiming he needed to “get something done.”
“We’ve got to fix this,” he continued, referring to “the woke left” and Democratic policies on immigration and energy. You don’t modify it unless you have a strategy.”
