This series, titled Trump Dump, features outlandish, untrue quotes from Donald Trump, MAGA supporters, and Right Wing media. If you come across a quote for this series, please send it to me with a link to the news story that contains the relevant quote.
This is the single most important economic issue of the day — this is pass/fail. If we do not fix these tax cuts, if we do not renew and extend, then we will be facing an economic calamity and, as always with financial instability, that falls on the middle and working-class people.
We will see a gigantic middle-class tax increase. We will see a child tax credit cap. We will see the deductions halved … it has the potential for a sudden stop. And, as I said, traditionally with these sudden stops, it falls on working Americans.
— President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury chief, billionaire Scott Bessent, as reported by Raw Story
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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