In the whirl wind of current events that swarm around U.S politics, an unfair piece of legislation pertaining to taxes is in the process of trying to be passed, but this piece of legislation is unlikely to get passed due to the bill favoring corporations instead of the lower and middle classes. This piece of legislation would provide big businesses with lower tax rates, and would push higher and lower middle class families into a higher tax bracket, and in addition with being pushed into a higher tax bracket, families would receive less benefits from the government (New York Times). This bill should not be passed  because it doesn't favor the citizens of the United States, instead it favors big business, and will leave the lower and middle classes with a higher rate of taxation with fewer benefits. To me that is an unfair arrangement, especially when governmental programs will be cut, even though we will be paying higher taxes. Instead of a bill that favors corporations, we need to put a bill in place that will actually benefit the general public. Our government actually needs to start caring about it citizens rather than putting all their energy into corporations that are already extremely rich. One good thing does come out of this bill if it does get passed, that would be that taxation on alcohol would decrease, so at least while the general public will be paying higher taxes, we can at least purchase cheaper drinks.
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In the article, "This Isn't a Gun Situation", written by my fellow classmate Lauren Peterson, she criticizes Donald Trumps approach to the issue of gun control. She effectively portrays both sides of the argument on whether gun control is a mental issue/ people issue, or actually a gun issue. She does this with statistics based on how many deaths occur in other countries due to guns, and points out the fact that, "US leads World death by gun with a outstanding number of 27 deaths/day by guns and the second most are Canada and Greece with a number of 5 deaths/day by guns" (Peterson). " This provides Peterson with credibility and further advances her argument that, "The President of the United States of America, needs to do his job and protect his people from these mentally unstable people whom are buying guns and committing these horrendous terrorist attacks" (Peterson). She also uses current events such as the Las Vegas shooting, and the Sutherland shooting to convince her audience to support her side of the argument. Peterson's article/ commentary is well written, credible, and she is super convincing when it comes to getting her audience to support her side of the argument. 

     In the article, “A Tax Cut that Lifts the Economy? Opinions are Split”, written by Patricia Cohen, she reports on the fact that the Republican administration wants to cut taxes dramatically in hopes to revitalize the economy. Although this tax cut seems like a benefit for the economy, promoting business and investment, this tax cut could ultimately have negative effects on the lower and middle classes of the United States. This tax reform that the Republican administration wants to put into effect could just end up driving an even bigger gap between the wealthy 1% of the United States, and the middle and lower classes. Economists are skeptical of this tax deduction because they don’t see how this plan is going to cause a spur of growth in the United States economy when, “Interest rates are already at bargain-basement levels, plenty of potential investment capital is sloshing around, and the official jobless rate is at lows not seen in many years” (Cohen). Most importantly with the deduction of taxes being lowered this will cause the United States to go even more into debt, and have to cut governmental aid programs for the lower and middle classes because, “The cost of the tax package will inevitably deepen the deficit and lead to spending cuts that are likely to hit low- and middle-income workers” (Cohen). Also, another fact to point out as to why this tax reform could be for the worse is the fact that, “New low rates and breaks will not be sustainable over the long term if they do not provide enough money to run the government” (Cohen). Even though the lowering of tax rates could promote new business investment, and create more jobs, it seems as though this tax reform would only benefit the wealthiest of the United States, and the middle and lower classes would get the shorter end of the stick with tax cuts to government aid programs. We need to find a way to where ALL classes will benefit from a tax reform, not just big businesses that don’t care about the everyday average American. “Business folks won’t describe it like this, but I think the best way to describe what it means to be more competitive is to describe it in terms of increasing the standard of living of the American people” (Michael J/Cohen).