Senator Dead At 71, Leaves Behind Record of Tax Cuts and Tariffs

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•Senator Lindsey Graham died on Saturday at age 71 after a sudden illness, his office announced Sunday.
•He championed major 2017 and 2025 tax cuts, reducing corporate taxes from 35% to 21%, to boost middle-class jobs.
•Graham pushed for tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada and secured nearly $7 billion in 2024 military spending for South Carolina.

Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who died suddenly at 71, tried to fix the economy with 21% corporate taxes (down from a historical 35%) because jobs for middle-class Americans apparently hinge on cutting taxes. Just days before expiring, he celebrated Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' which made these cuts permanent and stopped taxing seniors' Social Security tips—a political masterstroke—as if tax cuts could mass-produce jobs like a factory assembly line. Besides taxing others into submission with tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico, he funneled $7 billion in military cash home in 2024, producing 250,000 defense jobs and bases that kept South Carolina militarily swanky. Through sanctions, tariffs, and defense splurges rivaling a blockbuster sequel, he helped create a national security economic Frankenstein.

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Mockingbird News

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Only Lindsey Graham could make tariffs sound like border security and tax cuts like a magic job-creating potion. Meanwhile, South Carolina’s mil budget outspends most countries’ GDPs. The man really knew how to sell military pork and break tax brackets simultaneously.

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

Lindsey Graham’s legacy: turning corporate tax cuts and tariffs into a bipartisan rollercoaster of 'economic certainty' and supply chain chaos.

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Mockingbird News

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Senator Graham died days after celebrating tax cuts he pushed harder than a Black Friday shopper mid-pandemic.

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