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tiltdeac said:
WTF is all this talk about waiters making 40k? 90th percentile of waiter pay is $18.49 an hour including tips per the BLS, which at 40 hours a week is $38K a year. Median is $20k.
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lol @ waiters reporting all their tips to the BLS
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
This is just theatre now, the whole thing is a joke.
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Seems like y'all had a lot of well reasoned responses yesterday. #fairandbalanced

palmab03 said:
All they're doing is agreeing to debate, why does doing that make someone a coward?
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tiltdeac said:
They aren't voting to agree to debate. They are voting to avoid the debate. By voting on a MTP they are saying we don't need to have hearings, we don't need to have experts weigh in, we don't need to have the various amendments scored, we don't need to tell the public what we are doing, hell, we don't even need to know what is in this bill that could affects millions of lives, jobs, and 1/6 of the economy before we vote on it... we're good.
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RJKarl said:
Because she allegedly was a hard no on the bill. Why waste time debating something you know will harm your state?
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palmab03 said:
So now people aren't even able to debate a change? This is a pretty terrible take.
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Deacsfan27 said:
Palma, can you write 3 things that this vote changed today and the impact it could have? Just 3 bullet points about what today means.
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warak said:
shame

not an ounce of compassion in the GOP.




they are going to let all of their rubes die poor and sick.
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TownieDeac said:
Just fuck the GOP so hard

Buncha damn cowards
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They are voting on things where the outcome is already known, so what's the point of the vote except for theatre? It's the same tactic the original Obamacare repeal efforts had where the end results were always to be vetoed by Obama. This time the same game but with the ability to actually pass something, but because that something is so fucking awful they play the ok your turn to oppose, ok now your turn. They can turn around and tell the dumb fucks that make up this country hey we tried but those democrats errr but aren't you in control, hey what's that a gay man and a Muslim holding hands!
 
They need to spend the required 20 debate hours doing something. Plus now Rand Paul can say "hey, I tried..." which is apparently all he wanted all along.

Apparently the plan is to vote through *something* and then have Paul Ryan and McConnell negotiate a deal. No one knows what that will be, but then the pressure to not be the person that holds up the thing they all campaigned on will really kick in.
 
CHDeac said:
Super skinny option coming,,,,

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-senate-aims-for-a-skinny-obamacare-repeal-as-other-options-fail/ar-AAoSovf?li=BBnb7Kz

Republicans said they were still trying to work out what would be in a skinny repeal, which could simply eliminate mandates requiring individuals and employers to obtain or provide health insurance, and abolish a tax on medical device manufacturers.
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Re: The employer mandate: It only applies to companies of 50 people or larger, so how many companies of that size would revert to no benefits anyways?
 
 
Besides the coverage losses, it looks like skinny repeal would require 60 votes. Not enough on budget savings.
 
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