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All government except kings and dictators*
This is it, folks. The best and the brightest of the GOP are in power in the House and what was the first thing they came up with? A 30% tax on all retail sales. Awesome. That's gonna really help reelection. >

Oh, they're counting on us to forget all about the whole thing by then. 
They expected people to get over the Roe v. Wade decision after the leak and before it was struck down after all. We were suppose to put January 6th out of our minds as well.
Edit: and they'll be right about people forgetting the things that were brought forward and didn't pass, because there'll be a fuckton of that. It's only getting started. >


Oh, they're counting on us to forget all about the whole thing by then.

But wouldn't it have been smarter to just not publicly entertain the idea in the first place? Their actions make me doubt their cunning. >

They’ll blame it on the dems. Not sure how or why. But somehow it’s the left’s fault. Always is, right? >

On r/conservative their article submission on the M&M's thing stated that the 'woke mob' is the reason. The M&M's literally did something 'woke' and the 'woke mob' disapproved and that's why the spokescandies were removed, not because of conservative backlash. The conservative backlash is real and we can point to it (Tucker Carlson) and the 'woke mob' is nowhere to be found. >

Replace “woke” with “Jew” and conservative circles read like 1930s Germany. >

For once I'd like a conservative to just say "Yeah, ya got me". >

A fucking 30% sales tax?!? These people are fucking idiots. >

😂 Man, that’s gonna be really popular with those rust belt and southern states. >

"I didn't think my sales tax would go up! This is Biden's fault!" >

They know it's the GoP. I had a huge row with some wing nut friends of mine who kept arguing "it would be fair." (the latest Fox talking point). Most get paid under the table labor jobs and have no idea what fed taxes is, let alone FICA but think it's a "great idea." Until I had them define "All goods and services." Imagine paying a 30% tax for every food item, Netflix, for your can opener, automobiles, gas, to snow mobile repair. Oh and don't forget State and local tax. This plan would also kill FICA (payroll tax), goodbye Social Security and Medicare. Any republican collecting disability or retirement can kiss it goodbye >

And the rich would use LLCs and nonprofits to avoid paying the taxes. >

And the poor cant afford anything as it is so they wouldn't have to pay. The % collected goes down, programs are cut, recession happens ns cause no one ia able to afford anything or wants to avoid paying for "luxury items" no need to produce more, recession turns into a full fledged depression all within a year. >

Meanwhile hedge funds would short sell the dying companies to make even more money, while buying up any and all competition to consolidate th3 monopoly already in place. Further stripping resources and influence away from the poor. 
What should REALLY be scaring people are the hedge funds and foreign interest buying up land / property,  while the heritage foundation plants across the judiciary are prominently placed to argue for, "original interpretations" of the constitution. 
Good bye suffrage. Hello white wealthy land owners, (and foreign investors who own / helped them get in power) becoming the only ones allowed to vote.
That is their end game. Going back to feudalism.
I wouldn't be suprised if that point they push for generational debt.
Meaning, you inherit all family "debt and obligations." Putting grandchildren not even born, into permanent wage slave serfdom. >

That's definitely a concern, but some 60-70% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and all it takes is three missed meals. >

Step one: Only land owners can vote. Everybody else is "renting."
Step two: Use patriot act and surveillance state apparatus to subjugate Middle and Upper Middle class into a police state.
Step three: criminalize homelessness and joblessness, then squeeze everyone out of property ownership, and drop wages to practically zero while making "cost of living" beyond affordable for that wage.
Step four: make people homeless. 
Remember that slavery clause from the 13th ammendment?
Oops sorry. Tinfoil hat slipped. /s >

I think you missed where I said all it takes is three missed meals. That is a common saying that if a large amount of people miss three meals because they can't afford it, they are likely to revolt. 60-70% of Americans starting a revolution because they are literally starving to death isn't something that can be ignored. >


House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday told reporters he opposes legislation to abolish the IRS and replace federal taxes with a 30% sales tax.

Republican tax policy:  a single mom paying 30% sales tax on a gallon of milk while the wealthy pay nothing on multiple sources of income >

Yup.  Sales tax is regressive this would be a giant fuck you to average Americans. It also allows rich people that earn well above subsistance level to squirrel away wealth because they aren't being taxed until they spend it, which poor people don't have the luxury of doing 
Whoever came up with this idea is an active enemy of the people they say they represent. There is no reason to even propose this other than greed by the wealthy. >

Actually there are sound economic reasons for proposing a sales tax, which is why most of Europe uses this method to pay for government. >

And what are those reasons? >

When you tax something, you make it more expensive, which causes people (or companies) to do less of it than they otherwise would. The argument is that if we have to tax something (and thereby discourage it), we should tax consumption instead of income and investment.
I’m being downvoted because people think this is a Republican idea because this particular example was pushed by a few right wing republicans. 
But the general notion of a national sales tax is very much a democratic idea - which by the way is why McCarthy refuses to even hold a vote. But we see plenty of smaller examples in things like the gasoline tax, or taxes on cigarettes and alcohol and marijuana, all of which originated from democrats. >

So if taxing an item is used to discourage people from buying it (ie taxes on cigarettes and alcohol), wouldn't a general sales tax slow down spending? >

I would think it depends on whether there are many/any non-taxed outlets.  Money on exists to be spent. >

How do you say fuck the poor without saying fuck the poor? National Sales Tax. >

Just pointing out, Republicans have found plenty of other ways to say "fuck the poor" >

Please, paying to avoid the draft started in 1863. >

GOP: Screwing Over You & Me Since 1863 >

You know something is a bad idea when McCarthy shoots the idea down. Marge and the rest of her Goon Squad will be bellowing for his dismissal any moment now. >

We're already forced into this circus. May just as well hope some clowns start fighting for entertainment. >


Why it matters: The move effectively kills the legislation, which was part of a deal McCarthy made with hardliners in his conference to secure the speakership earlier this month.
What we're hearing: Top Republicans told Axios that McCarthy's agreement only guaranteed the bill would get a hearing in committee — but that doesn't guarantee a floor vote.

I'm guessing that the "hardliners" will not be too happy with this simply because McCarthy agreed to hear it in committee and nothing more.  They aren't pushing this bill for fun - they very much want to pass this.  I'm hoping this pisses off at least one of them enough that they decide to put McCarthy's speakership up for a vote. >

And those hardliners are idiots.  It's a Speaker's job to protect his conference from being forced to vote on bills that make them look horrible to voters, and have no chance of passing anyway.
It would be political malpractice for McCarthy to allow a floor vote on this. >

I like the way you pretend McCarthy is a normal politician who cares about looking horrible to voters. >

Well, in his malformed way, that is exactly what he's trying to do.
Were this to go to the floor the voting public would get to see just how shitty the Republican caucus is as a whole. By killing it in committee he is shielding his base from the truth, the truth that most house Republicans would vote for this.
There is no freedom caucus group of hardliners anymore, they are all hardliners.
And the proof will be that no four or five Republicans in the house are going to split off in the next two years to pass any sane legislation beyond the debt ceiling votes. >


the truth that most house Republicans would vote for this.

But not enough of them to pass it.  So exposing them to the public on this issue provides no benefit.  Even one of such limited mental capacity as McCarthy realizes this. >

GOP: The system is broken. How can we make it even worse? >

Given they think all government is bad, it’s kinda the point >

All government except kings and dictators* >

The hardliners are going to throw a fit. >

We might see a new speaker very soon.... >

There's a wonderfully cynical political novel.  'The Fools In Town Are On Our Side' by Ross Thomas.  In it, an ex-CIA agent is hired to make a small Southern city "so corrupt, even the pimps will vote for reform."
At this point, it looks like the GOP is trying to show how incompetent it can be. >

Nothing says, "I have no idea what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck" more than this idea. >

Oh they know. They want to grind us into the ground even further >

This is a distraction. They float an idea that is easy to hate, easy to shoot down. Then they come to an “agreement” which is way worse than we would have originally been okay with that further hurts the middle and lower class, but hey, at least it’s not a 30% sales tax right? >

Overton Window in action. It'll be the Democrats who propose a 10% compromise and get shelled in the end. >

I’m disappointed only in that this would have sunk the GOP for a decade. But a more regressive ‘up yours’ to non-rich Americans is hard to imagine >

Oh there's plenty more to come, and probably much worse to boot. >

I mean they would like to bring back chattel slavery >

Feudalism is on the table. >

Probably the first smart thing he's done as speaker. It would be political suicide. Absolutely psychopathic idea, legitimately revolution-triggering. >

Hey you know how you're mostly paying somewhere between 12 and 24 percent on your income? Scrap that, pay 30% on all goods you purchase but trust us it's cheaper >

If they excluded gas, food and grocery items, I’d be less resistant to this. I don’t buy much outside of that but rich folks do. That’d be worth losing all income taxes. Our government would go broke though, rich folks would just spend their money outside the US and find other loopholes. >

That's the thing. Rich people don't pay taxes anyway so in order to generate revenue to cover the losses from removing income taxes, they have to tax things poor people buy-- namely gas and food. >

Good. Horrifically bad idea to even be floated. Why aren’t we talking about a windfall profit tax? Oh yeah, because the GOP is nakedly corrupt and somehow the idiots in this country keep electing them >

It would create absolute chaos as well.
A world in which businesses start offering cash prices to avoid paying sales taxes, and the IRS is abolished regardless, so whose gonna stop this from snowballing through the US?  It would DECIMATE American tax revenues and programs that rely on them. >

how does using cash avoid having to pay sales tax? >

It's a common tactic that smaller businesses use to underreport revenue to the IRS.
Accept payment in cash, pay employees in cash, now that revenue doesn't exist on paper so they don't pay tax on that portion. It used to be fairly common for businesses to offer a discount for paying in cash for this exact reason. 
It's absolutely illegal, but it's not entirely uncommon, although it's less common these days. >

that's just tax fraud, not "cash prices" >

Yeah, but tax fraud is easier to commit when you deal with cash compared to card/checks. That's why some businesses do it. >

Half of Americans are too poor to pay income tax. So shifting to a national sales tax that EVERYONE would be forced to pay would be extremely regressive. >

How about a national tax on billionaires making money through manipulating the New York stock exchange or making billions through the Caymans?
Go after them and maybe your popularity will sto1p nosediving >

I can't believe McCarthy actually shit it down but I also can't believe how blatantly against the working class the GQP is and how oblivious their base is... 30%?!?!? People with kids get thousands of dollars back in their returns, people count on those returns to prop their year up correctly, this will push millions into poverty and they fuckin know it. >

National Sales Tax is one of the stupidest things to come along. Proposed way back by Steve Forbes, presidential candidate. Remember him? >

Hummmm, so let me understand this. GOP is pushing to make a majority of the people pay more in taxes (middle class and poorer), while also making it harder for people to vote? Slow trickle towards taxation without representation or to put it more simply, slavery. >

Again, no idea on how to govern. >

Sounds like a good way to create a recession, though. >

Yes, when your economy is built on consumption, taxing consumption might cause people to consume less. >

Here's an idea: what about a transacional tax on every transaction on Wall Street, and stop trying to shift all tax burdens on weary Americans who are losing purchasing power to inflation and watching our costs go up daily?
Think about it: each day, the New York Stock Exchange averages 38.3 million transactions, which is almost 10 billion transactions per year. Let's pretend that every transaction accrues a flat 1 cent tax. That would generate $100 million in revenue in one year (and perhaps have regulatory effect to reign in market manipulation by bot activity, thereby decreasing that number somewhat... But I digress).
So then, what if it weren't a flat tax? What if the accumulation of wealth by the wealthy didn't also starve the economy? Food for thought. >

Sadly 100 million is a rounding error in the American economy and tax collections. That would do nothing but hurt average working Americans with retirement savings. >

And there's the rub: there is no security in retirement if the only option available through most employers is a 401k. All of the retirement eggs have been placed in the Wall Street basket. Companies do not offer pensions, congress continues to cut social security, and having money in retirement is being peddled as "personal responsibility" for workers, not a right for citizens. Business "leaders" are out of touch, insane, and spoiled rotten; something's gotta give.
Capitalism has become a suicide pact. >

This never had a chance of passing. It's the sort of bill Republicans often float just to set the bar super low, so that when they float a different, slightly less shitty bill, they can convince their followers to support it. Think of it as adjusting the overton window for this sort of issue. >

Can we get a democratic representative to propose an amendment that:
This sales tax only applies to things that cost over 10,000*the federal minimum wage? >

Absolutely!  Oh btw the minimum wage is now $.01 lol >

These idiots actually proposed this, and should be pilloried. But no, all we hear about is Biden coming to take their gas stoves, which was never proposed by any Democratic politician. >

get ready for nothing to happen in the house.  not because dems block the bills but because the gop doesn't get along with itself. >

I’m convinced the entire GOP is just a long-running ‘Bad Idea’ jeans commercial. >

So I ran TaxCaster on $ 150,000 in net income and 150,000 in spending. The sales tax comes out higher. The nice news is all IRAs effectively become Roth IRAs with tax free withdrawals. >

That shouldn’t have a penalty tax anyway. I think it’s bullshit that they get to rake you an extra automatic 10% on it, regardless of income, if you find yourself in hardship and need to withdraw early. Very little qualifies for a “hardship” withdrawal and they didn’t do anything retroactive for covid even outside of the first year. Jack squat for folks in 2021 who had to withdraw from 401ks to make ends meet. Just a fuck you, pay up! For no reason, other than you’re not fucking old yet, even though it’s your money. >

Tax the banks.   Supposedly thats where the money is. >

Surprise!  They can't raise funds in any way, because they're grifters and bullshitters.  They have an allergy against fiscal responsibility.  
I thought they would find a way to make an exception, because this one would be regressive and would screw the poor.  But nope!  They're incompetent, all the way to the bone. >

Lol. If people think this is okay, ima need you to go to Illinois and buy some marijuana to see how a 30% sales tax actually effects prices. Out your damn mind >

With city taxes here in LA it comes out pretty close to 50% extra >

What does Marge want? >

This bill eliminates all other taxes, not just income tax.
Like payroll taxes. Or the capital gains tax for trading stocks. Now citizens would pay these via sales tax, instead of corporations and investors. Anyone currently in one of the lower income brackets - most people - would be paying more, while business owners and investors pay less.
McCarthy is right to kill this bill. >

Raising the price of all consumer goods, to own the libs. This is what happens when you elect insurrectionist to leadership. >

When the best policy you have is too stupid >

This was the best idea they could come up with.  They will only get worse from here. >

McCarthy better start packing up his Speaker's office. >

Yeah sure let’s just model our tax code after speeding tickets. >

Wow. What a moron this guy. Not eligible to run even a group of chickens. He is given the reins to direct the country. >

To his credit, he killed the bill. Because it’s half baked and idiotic. Pretty sad when even the other R’s in the room can see how stupid it is. >

As a group, the party is fucking clueless >

Doesn’t this effectively discourage people from participating in the economy? >

Yes. And rich folks will go spend their money outside the US while us poors are raked for another 30fucking% on our groceries. On top of them doubling over the last few years. 
I almost want them to do it, they’d collapse the whole fucking country. Don’t tease me with a good time here, guys! >

Remember, it takes just one member to call forth a vote to vacate the Speaker seat! Come on crazies, do it! >

A long popular stupid Republican idea. A 30% sales tax on working Americans. A house add 30% a new car add 30%. It would make the crash of 29 look like a hiccup. >

Sales taxes are regressive and hurt the poor disproportionately. >

Pretty much all Republican policies are regressive and hurt the poor disproportionately. “We hate the poors” might as well be their fucking slogan. >

It was never going to pass.  A 30% sales tax wouldn't even generate the revenue to cover our military spending from 10 years ago.
The vast majority of our wealth is tied up in individuals who don't spend a lot of their money and would have loopholes to get around the tax they'd have to pay. >

Perhaps people noticed buying stocks were not subject to the tax and the flat rate (30%) would be a 400% increase for the bottom 90%. who spend virtually all their income each year (average savings rate is around 5%) while the Uberrich get by living like kings on 30% of their income with 70% being exempt under the GOPer deal? >

It would make sense to tax stock sales.  It’d fix the HFT problem immediately, and go a long way to fixing a lot of other ways stock market methods allow money to leave the stock market.   You’d just have to be careful on ensuing that the tax burden for derivatives are placed on the parties leveraging them and not the people who own the underlying assets, that are often unaware that their assets are being lent to devalue themselves by their asset managers. >

Right you are, and I'd favor getting rid of "derivatives" that do not somehow involve OWNERSHIP of the underlying assets (pretty sure this would be a new kind of "derivative"). The jrbush crash was fueled biggly by the Mortgage BACKED Securities not having any backing, i.e., there was no legal basis for using the property as collateral because the owner of the derivative could not prove in court they owned the mortgage. >

Anyone with half a brain knows it will tank the economy....espically anyone one in business >

Convince me. >

Legislation baby >

Even the meek GOP majority knows this is a non-starter. >

Talk is one thing actions are another. >

Sales taxes are notoriously regressive, perfect for the GOP agenda. >

Only chickens balk. >

It was a stupid idea anyway. >

I’m I’m >

Maybe he does have a brain. >

This is all such stupid theater. No chance in hell any of this survives the senate or the President's veto, but its interesting seeing the GOP clawing at itself for a change. >

Well yeah.  They napkin mathed what it would potentially do to the military budget. >

The only good thing he has done since becoming Speaker >

Spoiler alert: the only legislation McCarthy will ever pass will be budgetary necessities that Dems will be forced to drag through. >

Up next they will make it illegal to barter. >

They will claim that this a ‘small government’ move, but it’s only for their small brain constituents. The rest of us know that they need to money for their paychecks, and we know on how damaging this move will be for everyone. >

Wait, so he has 1 brain cell. >

Never seen a man go through a day so fast >

Smart move Kevin… >

This is going to be the next two years. McCarthy will throw up these trial balloons on tax hikes or social security reductions or taking away rights from women and when they are hated by the general public, he'll pull them and say it was only an idea. >

I feel like a lot of Republicanism involves having a slight angle to defend but the 30% national sales tax is an absolute joke >

30% less money for the 99% would start the real crazy shit. I want to move away so bad. >

Since poor and lower-middle income families live paychecks to paycheck, this would raise tax on income to 30%. Seems fair, right? >

It’s a stupid idea. >

Nice deceptive headline there. >

What should it say, do you think? >

This is it, folks. The best and the brightest of the GOP are in power in the House and what was the first thing they came up with? A 30% tax on all retail sales. Awesome. That's gonna really help reelection. >

Oh, they're counting on us to forget all about the whole thing by then. 
They expected people to get over the Roe v. Wade decision after the leak and before it was struck down after all. We were suppose to put January 6th out of our minds as well.
Edit: and they'll be right about people forgetting the things that were brought forward and didn't pass, because there'll be a fuckton of that. It's only getting started. >


Oh, they're counting on us to forget all about the whole thing by then.

But wouldn't it have been smarter to just not publicly entertain the idea in the first place? Their actions make me doubt their cunning. >

They’ll blame it on the dems. Not sure how or why. But somehow it’s the left’s fault. Always is, right? >

On r/conservative their article submission on the M&M's thing stated that the 'woke mob' is the reason. The M&M's literally did something 'woke' and the 'woke mob' disapproved and that's why the spokescandies were removed, not because of conservative backlash. The conservative backlash is real and we can point to it (Tucker Carlson) and the 'woke mob' is nowhere to be found. >

Replace “woke” with “Jew” and conservative circles read like 1930s Germany. >

For once I'd like a conservative to just say "Yeah, ya got me". >

A fucking 30% sales tax?!? These people are fucking idiots. >

😂 Man, that’s gonna be really popular with those rust belt and southern states. >

"I didn't think my sales tax would go up! This is Biden's fault!" >

They know it's the GoP. I had a huge row with some wing nut friends of mine who kept arguing "it would be fair." (the latest Fox talking point). Most get paid under the table labor jobs and have no idea what fed taxes is, let alone FICA but think it's a "great idea." Until I had them define "All goods and services." Imagine paying a 30% tax for every food item, Netflix, for your can opener, automobiles, gas, to snow mobile repair. Oh and don't forget State and local tax. This plan would also kill FICA (payroll tax), goodbye Social Security and Medicare. Any republican collecting disability or retirement can kiss it goodbye >

And the rich would use LLCs and nonprofits to avoid paying the taxes. >

And the poor cant afford anything as it is so they wouldn't have to pay. The % collected goes down, programs are cut, recession happens ns cause no one ia able to afford anything or wants to avoid paying for "luxury items" no need to produce more, recession turns into a full fledged depression all within a year. >

Meanwhile hedge funds would short sell the dying companies to make even more money, while buying up any and all competition to consolidate th3 monopoly already in place. Further stripping resources and influence away from the poor. 
What should REALLY be scaring people are the hedge funds and foreign interest buying up land / property,  while the heritage foundation plants across the judiciary are prominently placed to argue for, "original interpretations" of the constitution. 
Good bye suffrage. Hello white wealthy land owners, (and foreign investors who own / helped them get in power) becoming the only ones allowed to vote.
That is their end game. Going back to feudalism.
I wouldn't be suprised if that point they push for generational debt.
Meaning, you inherit all family "debt and obligations." Putting grandchildren not even born, into permanent wage slave serfdom. >

That's definitely a concern, but some 60-70% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and all it takes is three missed meals. >

Step one: Only land owners can vote. Everybody else is "renting."
Step two: Use patriot act and surveillance state apparatus to subjugate Middle and Upper Middle class into a police state.
Step three: criminalize homelessness and joblessness, then squeeze everyone out of property ownership, and drop wages to practically zero while making "cost of living" beyond affordable for that wage.
Step four: make people homeless. 
Remember that slavery clause from the 13th ammendment?
Oops sorry. Tinfoil hat slipped. /s >

I think you missed where I said all it takes is three missed meals. That is a common saying that if a large amount of people miss three meals because they can't afford it, they are likely to revolt. 60-70% of Americans starting a revolution because they are literally starving to death isn't something that can be ignored. >


House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday told reporters he opposes legislation to abolish the IRS and replace federal taxes with a 30% sales tax.

Republican tax policy:  a single mom paying 30% sales tax on a gallon of milk while the wealthy pay nothing on multiple sources of income >

Yup.  Sales tax is regressive this would be a giant fuck you to average Americans. It also allows rich people that earn well above subsistance level to squirrel away wealth because they aren't being taxed until they spend it, which poor people don't have the luxury of doing 
Whoever came up with this idea is an active enemy of the people they say they represent. There is no reason to even propose this other than greed by the wealthy. >

Actually there are sound economic reasons for proposing a sales tax, which is why most of Europe uses this method to pay for government. >

And what are those reasons? >

When you tax something, you make it more expensive, which causes people (or companies) to do less of it than they otherwise would. The argument is that if we have to tax something (and thereby discourage it), we should tax consumption instead of income and investment.
I’m being downvoted because people think this is a Republican idea because this particular example was pushed by a few right wing republicans. 
But the general notion of a national sales tax is very much a democratic idea - which by the way is why McCarthy refuses to even hold a vote. But we see plenty of smaller examples in things like the gasoline tax, or taxes on cigarettes and alcohol and marijuana, all of which originated from democrats. >

So if taxing an item is used to discourage people from buying it (ie taxes on cigarettes and alcohol), wouldn't a general sales tax slow down spending? >

I would think it depends on whether there are many/any non-taxed outlets.  Money on exists to be spent. >

How do you say fuck the poor without saying fuck the poor? National Sales Tax. >

Just pointing out, Republicans have found plenty of other ways to say "fuck the poor" >

Please, paying to avoid the draft started in 1863. >

GOP: Screwing Over You & Me Since 1863 >

You know something is a bad idea when McCarthy shoots the idea down. Marge and the rest of her Goon Squad will be bellowing for his dismissal any moment now. >

We're already forced into this circus. May just as well hope some clowns start fighting for entertainment. >


Why it matters: The move effectively kills the legislation, which was part of a deal McCarthy made with hardliners in his conference to secure the speakership earlier this month.
What we're hearing: Top Republicans told Axios that McCarthy's agreement only guaranteed the bill would get a hearing in committee — but that doesn't guarantee a floor vote.

I'm guessing that the "hardliners" will not be too happy with this simply because McCarthy agreed to hear it in committee and nothing more.  They aren't pushing this bill for fun - they very much want to pass this.  I'm hoping this pisses off at least one of them enough that they decide to put McCarthy's speakership up for a vote. >

And those hardliners are idiots.  It's a Speaker's job to protect his conference from being forced to vote on bills that make them look horrible to voters, and have no chance of passing anyway.
It would be political malpractice for McCarthy to allow a floor vote on this. >

I like the way you pretend McCarthy is a normal politician who cares about looking horrible to voters. >

Well, in his malformed way, that is exactly what he's trying to do.
Were this to go to the floor the voting public would get to see just how shitty the Republican caucus is as a whole. By killing it in committee he is shielding his base from the truth, the truth that most house Republicans would vote for this.
There is no freedom caucus group of hardliners anymore, they are all hardliners.
And the proof will be that no four or five Republicans in the house are going to split off in the next two years to pass any sane legislation beyond the debt ceiling votes. >


the truth that most house Republicans would vote for this.

But not enough of them to pass it.  So exposing them to the public on this issue provides no benefit.  Even one of such limited mental capacity as McCarthy realizes this. >

GOP: The system is broken. How can we make it even worse? >

Given they think all government is bad, it’s kinda the point