The nasty party is just for the rich

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In 2011, through ALEC’s influence, Indiana became the first state to prohibit its cities and towns from raising their minimum wages. About 20 states have followed its lead. And in 2012, Indiana was at the leading edge of a new wave of union-busting “right-to-work” legislation. The laws allow workers to benefit from union representation without paying union dues. 

Pence was likely thinking of these reforms, and of the cut in the state income tax he spearheaded, when he proclaimed in 2014 that Indiana was “blazing a trail for low taxes, balanced budgets and economic freedom in the Midwest.” In truth, Indiana was blazing a trail to the bottom. The state’s poverty rate rose by more than one third from 2007 to 2013, and the median household income declined nearly 11 percent. Indiana performed worse than any neighboring state on both counts.

The Right-Wing Machine Behind the Curtain

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CSR payments go to insurers to help defray the cost of offering plans to low-income Americans . Without the roughly $8 billion in annual payments, many health-policy experts have said, the marketplaces would see a flood of insurer exits and steeper price increases for Americans getting insurance through the marketplaces.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said at a press conference on Wednesday that the bill would not include these payments. "CSRs, we're not doing that," Ryan said.

Obamacare cost sharing, CSR payments government shutdown - Business Insider

Of course they're not doing that, heck these are handouts to the poor, let them sell their iPhones and buy unsubsidized insurance before they complain about high premiums and deductibles. 

We're the nasty party, we're prepared to risk a government shutdown for this, you gotta have principles!

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And $10 an hour minimum wage is waaaay to generous according to the Nasty Party..

On the day that thousands of St. Louis workers get pay cuts due to a new state law, Mayor Lyda Krewson, faith leaders and others will gather in support of a higher wage. A $10 minimum wage in St. Louis went into effect in May after a two-year court battle. Days later, the Republican-led Missouri Legislature passed a bill that requires a $7.70 per hour minimum wage statewide. Republican Gov. Eric Greitens signed the measure, which is among several laws that became effective Monday. Kansas City voters this month approved a higher wage, though that vote is essentially nullified by the new state law. Supporters of the higher wage in St. Louis plan an afternoon protest, during which the Democratic mayor is expected to announce a plan moving forward.

New state law lowers St. Louis minimum wage from $10 to $7.70 per hour | FOX2now.com

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Certainly not for working people..

Billionaire Joe Ricketts announced Thursday that New York City news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist are shutting down, citing financial struggles just a week after employees voted to unionize.  Reporters and editors at DNAinfo and Gothamist voted to unionize last week. Local news sites owned by Ricketts in Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago will also go dark. The websites' archives have also been completely wiped, leaving no trace of past articles. “DNAinfo is, at the end of the day, a business, and businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure,” Ricketts wrote in a letter posted to the websites. “And while we made progress toward building DNAinfo into a successful business, in the end, that progress hasn’t been sufficient to support the tremendous effort and expense needed to produce the type of journalism on which the company was founded."

DNAinfo, Gothamist shut down by CEO | TheHill

Financial struggles or the vote to unionize..

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The policies are all geared to favoring the rich donor class and the noises is all white identity policy:

One of the most pernicious things to happen to the GOP caucus today is that the party’s leaders seem to have convinced the rank-and-file that future electoral success hinges on delivering on the promise of major legislation. Actual Republicans running actual campaigns like Ed Gillespie know that the winning ticket is identity politics for white people and nothing to do with policy.

Republicans should admit to themselves they mostly don’t want big change - Vox

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All just a coincidence, or..

Bob Corker, the Senate’s lone Republican holdout on the GOP tax-reform bill, flipped his vote to yes after the legislation was finalized on Friday. “After great thought and consideration, I believe that this once-in-a-generation opportunity to make U.S. businesses domestically more productive and internationally more competitive is one we should not miss,” Corker, a commercial real estate magnate who’s retiring from the Senate at the end of next year, said in a statement. A day later, the International Business Times revealed that a last-minute provision in the bill, granting a major tax deduction to owners of real estate partnerships, would benefit Corker by about $1.2 million per year.

Corker, who is already under federal investigation for alleged insider trading involving a real-estate firm, spent the weekend making a series of less-than-convincing statements justifying his switch. He first told IBT that he hadn’t read the bill. Then he wrote an angry letter to Senate leaders questioning how this provision got into the bill. As #CorkerKickback trended on Twitter, the senator also claimed that the language was part of the House version of the legislation. Experts rejected that. “This new language can’t be found in either the House-passed or Senate-passed bills,” Matt Gardner of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy told IBT. Corker originally opposed the tax bill because of its impact on the federal budget deficit.

The Republican Tax Bill Is a Gift to the Washington “Blob” | New Republic