Monthly Archives: November 2017

Committee for a Responsible Budget, November 15, 2017

Under the Senate’s tax plan, the nation’s DEBT would EXCEED THE SIZE OF THE ECONOMY by 2028.

 

Luke 16:11

“So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, 

who will trust you with true riches?”

 

 

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), November 16, 2017

“I get sick and tired of the richest people in this country getting richer and richer.”

 

1 Timothy 6:17

“Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God.”

 

 

Quinnipiac University National Poll, November 15, 2017

A majority of American voters say that the Republican tax plan favors the rich at the expense of the middle class (59% to 33%).

 

Proverbs 22:16

“One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.”

 

 

Congressional Budget Office, November 14, 2017

The proposed GOP tax bill would trigger automatic Medicare cuts of $25 billion in 2018.

 

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor
    will also cry out and not be answered.

 

 

Donald Trump, May 5, 2016

  “I’m the king of debt. I love debt…I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal.”

 

Proverbs 22:7

  “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.”

 

 

President Donald Trump, September 13, 2017

  “And the rich will not be gaining at all with this [tax] plan.”

 

Psalm 101:7

  “No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.”

 

 

AL Senate Candidate Roy Moore, September, 2017

“Our foundation has been shaken. Crime, corruption, immorality, abortion, sodomy, sexual perversion sweep our land.”

 

Romans 2:3

“So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?”

 

 

CBS News Poll, November 1, 2017

“Most Americans want to see TAX INCREASES for large corporations (56%) and for the wealthy (58%).”

 

Proverbs 22:16

“One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.”

 

 

Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), November 7, 2017

“We have a president who seems to take pleasure in dividing us.”

 

Luke 11:17 

“‘Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall.’”

 

 

 

Joaquín Ramírez, survivor of Texas mass shooting, November 7, 2017

“I don’t know how the shooter got such weapons. I don’t know how he had such cruelty in his heart.”

 

Psalm 11:5 

 “The wicked, those who love violence, [the Lord] hates with a passion.”