Too bad he won’t do anything.
What, exactly, is within his sole power to do?
The answer is: Nothing. The president (or even the executive branch) has no power over tax laws whatsoever. That’s 100% Congress. The president can only sign into law or veto what Congress sends them. Aside from Executive Orders (which are still subject to judicial review), all the president can do is call for things.
And he is only calling for it now because it wouldn’t have made sense to do it any earlier. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (better known as the Trump Tax Cuts for the Wealthy), became effective in 2018 and is the law until 2025 when they’re due to be renewed or replaced. Biden took office in 2021 and the current year is 2024.
instead of ranting about “illegals”
The “ranting about illegals” statement is completley disingenuous and quite literally spreading right-wing propaganda.
From the official transcript of the damn speech (or rant as you’re calling it):
REPRESENTATIVE GREENE: What about Laken Riley?
(Cross-talk.)
AUDIENCE: Booo —
REPRESENTATIVE GREENE: Say her name!
THE PRESIDENT: (The President holds up a pin reading “Say Her Name, Laken Riley.”) Lanken — Lanken (Laken) Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed.
REPRESENTATIVE GREENE: By an illegal!
THE PRESIDENT: By an illegal. That’s right. But how many of thousands of people are being killed by legals?
That’s it. That’s the “rant”. Basically trapped into responding to Empty G’s heckling, fell into it, and now it’s a right-wing talking point.
Here’s the full transcript if you don’t trust my copy/paste skills: https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/
Plant very convincing notes in the lapels of every fortune 500 companies CEOs?
I mean, that’s close.
Tax reform has to be implemented by Congress. All he can do is call for it. And good luck with that out of the current Congress. The only chance of that happening is if Dems get the House back and get a bigger/actual majority in the Senate.
An actual majority in both houses plus the President’s signature is all it takes to actually change tax rates for the wealthy — you can do it under reconciliation. The problem for Democrats is that there have long been a few who are bought off, so it takes more than a bare majority to do it.
What, exactly, is within his sole power to do?
Called on congress to block the rail strike: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-calls-on-congress-to-block-potential-railroad-strike
Walks back his own campaign promise for $50k forgiveness: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/539139-biden-balks-at-50k-student-loan-forgiveness-plan/
Goes around congress to sell weapons to Israel: https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/politics/biden-congress-israel-military-aid/index.html
Forced federal workers back to office: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/13/politics/in-person-work-biden-administration/index.html
Increased the defense budget: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/politics/defense-budget-biden-administration/index.html
Fuck Joe Biden.
I’m not a fan of Biden either, but he’s going to get my vote this presidential election due to their being no alternative.
There are more elections than just the presidential one that you should be voting in. Vote in all of your local ones and state level ones. The more progressive people that we can push through the chain the more stuff we can get passed that will help people and the more likely we are to get a more progressive president in the future.
The more progressive people that we can push through the chain
Never going to happen. Establishment Democrats will sabotage their efforts because there is literally zero repercussions for doing so. They fuck us over and then people like you insist we have to vote for them anyway.
No.
Yeah, not like we can have a president who thinks on his feet…
Better to have one that just says random offensive things without thinking.
trump does it intentionally, so it’s 100% cool for Biden to do it “accidentally” and I’m an asshole for wanting better for America.
Yeah, not like we can have a president who thinks on his feet…
So first it was him “ranting about illegals” and after that was fact-checked, now it’s he can’t think on his feet. Way to move the goalposts! 👍
and I’m an asshole for wanting better for America.
I didn’t call you an asshole. You threw and jumped on that grenade all by yourself.
Well, at least you learned what an implication is…
Figured you’d know already with a Dennis background.
I don’t think there’s anything else I can teach you, at least I’m done putting effort in.
