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November 02, 2017 03:55 PM UTC

Gardner Won't Answer Question About Tax Cuts for Millionaires

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(The man has never met a question he wouldn’t avoid — Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Sen. Cory Gardner (R).

What will the Republican tax bill do for people who make $1 million or more? That’s turned into a contentious issue in recent weeks, as the GOP weighs the political liability that might result from lowering taxes on the super rich.

To his credit, KNUS radio host Dan Caplis, a Trump conservative, put the question to U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) yesterday.

Asked by Caplis (here at 9:35) if he supports cutting taxes “for earners of a $1 million or more per year net taxable income,” Gardner said he hasn’t yet decided on that aspect of the tax bill.

Gardner: Look, I’d like to see tax relief. I’d like to see us do the most powerful thing we can when it comes to policy to drive this economy, and I’m going to make my decisions on what I support based on that lens.”

Gardner said the U.S. Senate “will be putting its own bill forward, and still [the possible tax cut for top earners] is going to be one of those negotiated points.”

Gardner did not say if he’d be involved in the negotiations or whether he’d fight to reduce taxes on those making $1 million annually.

Gardner said he wasn’t sure if the final House bill would lower tax rates for super big earners, and it turns out that the bill, released today, kept the highest rate at 39.6 percent for individuals earning above $500,000 and couples earning over $1 million.

The Senate tax-reform bill is expected to be out as early as next week.

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8 thoughts on “Gardner Won’t Answer Question About Tax Cuts for Millionaires

  1. What's the over/under on his "I haven't decided" comments for this piece of trash legislation?  Like it is going to be a big SURPRISE how he votes.

  2. Asked if his real name was actually Cory Gardner, the evasive, elusive, suddenly microphone-shy Senator's Spokesatron 3000 responded:

    “That fact has not yet been independently verified, has been taken under ill-advisement, is being subjected to a bit of scrutiny and researched superficially, and has become the subject of an immediately delayed, laxly exhaustive, narrowly wide-ranging, generically specific but intensely unfocused three-year investigation by a gray-ribbon committee which has yet to be empaneled, but will be eventually once a group of ten GOP senators who have seen all of Donald Trump’s tax returns and are able correctly to identify the capitol of South Dakota can be located, and all requisite, desperately needed, demonstrably unnecessary funding can be appropriated, misappropriated, and disappropriated. Or not. Too. Also. Especially if there’s an ‘r’ in that month.

    Upon their findings — if any, ever — following a few additional years of poll-testing and staff members’ moistened fingers being held aloft, it’s semi-likely that Senator ‘Gardner’ — if that's really his name — will be more than happy and deeply saddened to almost definitely, quite nearly certainly and partially completely confirm, more or less, sort of, to the extent impossible, that perhaps his name is, in fact, something or other. Or something altogether different. Or not. Or maybe it was two other guys. Probably. We don’t know yet. IM me. What was your question again?

    OK, who’s next please — oh, and would anybody like a pretzel? We’ve got thousands of ’em. Big ones. Baked ’em ourselves.”

  3. Will he answer why religious organizations will now be tax-exempt for their political campaigning?

    Will he issue a statement about the continued carried interest allowance?

    And by this, I mean will he voice an actual support or oppostion opinion instead of his pre-recorded "I don't know abou that…"?

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