Need To Know: Republicans Are Using Their Tax Plan to Try and Cripple Obamacare – News

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Here at MERRY JANE we’re convinced that the world revolves around cannabis. From politics to culture, civil rights to economics, you can find keef dusted across every facet of modern life. But in these increasingly divided times, where natural disasters go damn-near ignored for two months and Twitter fingers have almost literally become trigger fingers, it’s become increasingly important to highlight the most pressing news outside of the cannabis space. In a bi-weekly round-up MERRY JANE will break down the stories making waves in media, politics, technology, and culture  keeping you up to date on what’s making our world tick. Here’s what you Need To Know.

In the U.S., the GOP’s tax plan just got a whole lot worse. If you thought that cutting corporate taxes from 35 to 20 percent while dropping deductions for charitable giving and slashing Medicaid was bad, Senate Republicans want you to hold their beer.

In an effort to create enough funding to pay for their wealth-padding tax cuts, appease their orange-tinted Commander in Chief, and now try to finally keep their longstanding, and so far unsuccessful, promise to end…

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