Dear Friends:
Today, Tuesday
December 19, 2017
during the afternoon, the House of Representatives passed the GOP tax-overhaul
bill on a voting of 227 against 203.
During the evening,
the Senate is voting the same bill that it is a overhaul version of the
previous Senate and House bills plus all the changes made due to the requests
of some Senators and Representatives.
Democrats didn’t
vote in the House of Representatives and they will not vote in the Senate for
the bill according to the information that is public.
Normally, in these
cases some of the members of the opposition work together with majority and
they vote for the bill. In this opportunity the refuse to was total.
But the interesting
issue is that also 12 Republicans of the House of the Representatives dissented
with the bill and they didn’t vote the overhaul version.
In the Senate, after
a series of negotiations the GOP Senators who voted for “no” in the first session,
in the end agreed.
In summary, during
all the current year, the Congress was blocked in its actions for a series of
fissures.
And nothing
indicates that the situation will change during the next year. This implies
that fissures will continue and maybe they will extend because 2018 is
middle-term election year.
Domingo A. Trassens
Email: d.a.trassens@gmail.com
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Tax-Overhaul Bill Heads to Senate
More fissures in
Congress: In the House of Representatives, there are 12 dissenting Republicans
about the tax code bill.
(In other words, 12
Republican Representatives voted together with all the Democrat Representatives
against the tax bill. However, the bill passed 227 against 203. The 227 were
the other Republican Representatives.)
12/19/2017 09:30:47 PM
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There is possible
that existed collusion (x) between Trump Campaign and Russia. However, Donald Trump won the presidential election
due to his persuasive techniques.
(x) Collusion:
secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose.
(Merriam Webster Dictionary)
12/19/2017 05:33:38 PM
(In the last few
days, everybody is talking about the “WannaCry” cyber-attack and some sources
confirmed that the attack was perpetrated for North Korean hackers.)
My comment: We
cannot expect the North Koreans send us lovely messages.
We are in the middle
of a “cold war” with North Korea and this cyber-attack was only part of this
conflict.
12/19/2017 05:18:20 PM
2 Recommendations
(Due to all the
problems U.S. has with the Chinese, some of the WSJ readers suggest to cut our
relationships with them.)
My comment: Today,
in the economic sense, China needs us and we need from Chinese. This
makes very difficult to cut completely the political relationships because the commercial
relationships are interlaced.
Chinese don't
buy commodities from US, but they have all the technology licenses
that are from US. If we cut with them, our companies will lose all the
royalties, but they will continue working with our technology.
Without IBM, HP
and Microsoft, China couldn't build the huge IT
infrastructure they have today.
12/19/2017 04:51:08 PM
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After we read a
series of analysis from experts, the conclusion is that the new tax code bill
is not a “Christmas gift”. It is only a new tax code with pros and cons.
12/19/2017 02:55:40 PM
5 Recommendations
The questions
related to the derailed Amtrak train are three:
- Was it a human
mistake?
- Was it a technical
problem?
- Was it a technical
problem and human mistake?
After the
investigation we will not the truth.
12/19/2017 02:47:31 PM
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