GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid
GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid | Common Dreams
Well, he promised tax breaks. If anyone had the illusion that this would benefit lower income brackets, then congratulations: you have officially become senile. Because it follows the same path he did with the last tax breaks: More money for the rich, less for the rest.
Everyone in America is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire/billionaire. This tax breaks will surely benefit me some day
Because it follows the same path he did with the last tax breaks: More money for the rich, less for the rest.
Not a single maga ever believed me when I told them that, and they won't believe it now either.
Their heads are so far up Trump's ass they know what he has for dinner.
This infuriates me more than anything else, but the Republicans were very clear on their intentions and were elected democratically.
It sucks that we don't have a legit opposition party that actually cares about the poor and working class.
During the campaign Trump repeatedly said he wouldn't mess with Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. Towards the end of the campaign he stopped saying Medicaid. But just last week he was asked about cuts and said he wouldn't touch Medicaid.
I guess it's all true because Congress is going to cut all three.
A bunch of trump admin people wrote project 2025 with the heritage foundation. Trump himself is a well known liar and was under criminal prosecution.
We knew it would be tax cuts for the richest, again. At this point its still surprising that people are dumb enough to believe his words over his actions..
We did, it was Bernie. And we burned him :(
What the Dems did to Bernie, and the procedures and rules they built around preventing another uncrowned presidential contender, is largely why I think it's useless to vote for either of the two major parties. Sometimes it's fun to think about how far forward the nation would be if he'd have had EO power, though.
No. Instead the “opposition” party is doing everything they can to chastize their own base for flooding their phone lines demanding they do something to stop the madness.
Yup. They're doubling down on performative bullshit, as always.
All while groveling on bent knee to the tech asshats that are paying trump off.
The problem was:
It sucks that we have a society overflowing with braindead losers.
America will get what they voted for. Fucked.
I have no sympathy for anyone who ever voted Trump, but the point has to be made that until voting is mandatory and they actually hold genuine primaries that allow voters to have a say, it's taking things too far to blame every American for this outcome. The last few presidential elections have been laughably thin pretenses of democracy.
I didn't vote for this everyone needs to stop putting us in a box...many of us did not want this and we're stuck with these jerks. Alot of Americans are good people we just got taken over. America needs help from other countries.
I'm an American who works primarily with Canadians. Their opinions are very eye opening.
The nuance you're missing is based in American exceptionalism. You are no different than a Russian citizen, stuck under a government you/I hate. Focus on what you and your family can control.
The United States has been collapsing for decades. A force like Trump became an inevitablity after you allowed education standards to be destroyed, right-wing propoganda to run rampant, and billionaires to be held unaccountable for their roles in crashing the U.S. economy.
The number of Americans who have actually been fighting to prevent us from getting to this point is a very, very small group. You voted for this, regardless of whether or not you voted for the orange fascist or the controlled opposition. We're here now because the American people have consistently voted for this inevitability for decades.
get fucked
I hope Trump personally empties your 401k to thank your country's complacency
We didn't vote for capitalist ownership of our news. We didn't vote for an entrenched two party system. We didn't vote for citizens united. This country began going down the drain in the 80s, were just circling the drain currently.
Who could have possibly foreseen this hilariously predictable outcome?!
What the fuck did people think would happen to all the cost savings that doge is supposedly doing? You think that money was just going to sit in government bank accounts or something?
Some, forget which other than Meidas Touch, said that was exactly what the "cuts" were going to do, pay for Trumps tax breaks
America had a class war. And Americans lost.
Never thought I'd say it but here goes: Americans are very classy.
Everyday Americans will not stand for these games
I got a bridge to sell this guy!
Rural poor living off welfare - "About time somebody did something about those no good n welfare queens"
Bonus points if from state that receives the most payments from other states.
I've seen Democrats cackle with glee every time a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast, because "That'll show those stupid climate change deniers!"
And I've seen Republicans making the "keep an aspirin between your knees" joke about abortion every chance they get.
This feels like a country full of people who absolutely despise one another. I don't know how you operate a social safety net under those conditions.
Good GOD how I wish that everyday Americans will not stand for it. If that was the case the 2A guys would show up fully kitted out AND the police and military would be by their side since it screws everyone over.
But that is not going to happen.
American friends, what are you waiting for to deploy your guillotines?
Sure we are getting fucked all over the world but it seems that you are having it way worse...
Sorry can’t afford a guillotine, too preoccupied with trying to get enough overtime to afford basic necessities to be starting a revolution nobody else will show up for 🤷♀️
Honestly, this is probably people forgetting the size of the country.
The people who deserve the guillotine are in Washington d.c. the vast majority of the country is very, very fucking far away. California to Washington DC is 4 times the distance from London to Berlin.
4,495 kilometers away.
If we were all within a 4 hour drive of our capital, we could riot or protest as an entire country where the people in power are. But asking the entire USA to protest at once is an enormous undertaking. People are just so fucking far away from the people making the decisions and doing the harm.
We are so broke as a country living paycheck to paycheck people can't take a week off work to go to a protest and no one is organizing the travel of all these people to the capital. We should have groups organizing buses from every corner of the country to Washington and building some infrastructure for people to live and camp indefinitely causing every politician in Washington to know our opinion and demand them to work for us again.
We're too poor and too far away from the capitol. It would take days for me to drive to Washington D.C. and if I miss that much work I'll lose my home and other things. Then nothing will change and I'll be homeless for a while :(
‘Want to be slightly richer, while we speed run a revolution?’
Hoarding a bunch of US dollars while giving everyone every incentive to disconnect from the US economy.
It's like they think the economic world order is a law of nature.
We could all stop using money today, and decide on a whole different system, and they'd have nothing again but our hatred.
Keep pushing, morons.
There will be no revolution.
Revolution is inevitable. It’s a matter of when, not if.
That is because you are conflating the current climate, with the future climate. Trust that everything will continue to get worse for everyone and we are accelerating the decline. There is a limit to what people will take, to say otherwise is to ignore all of human history.
Ah yes, republicans with the ol’ trickle-down economics… always works, right?! Right?!
Piss on the little guy economics.
100% of the time it works exactly as it's supposed to. Incidentally it's never been accurately advertised.
My biggest frustration is not that Trump won, it's that as best i can tell these things are not even penetrating into the infosphere of maga. They are not only gleefully celebrating what they think he's doing, they are also seemingly completely ignorant of what they surely must not realize he's doing.
"We're winning! We're winning! We're making those little liberal piggies squeal!"
That's all that matters. Policies are a fucking joke. They're not real. It's all vibes-based politicking.
I don't know what to think about that. I don't think that low income Republican voters will feel the face eating of the leopards they voted for as what it is.
And I'm not even American, but I can see that this exact same thing is going to happen here in Europe/Germany as well. People will vote for the extreme right parties that have all their propaganda on how they are going to give money to the small people and make the country more secure - and at the same time their political programs and past behavior screams "we will give tax cuts mainly to the ultra rich and never cared about the low income people".
And they still get voted for. We just love us some good old fashioned fascism. Maybe I need to change my mindset and just be like "let's gooooo"
Left parties are also to blame for this. I always vote for the left party but lately I am not OK with about 70% of their agenda.
A rising number of people are concerned about immigration but left parties just ignore that and pushes for more immigration.
Immigration causes lot of issues. You see many immigrants pick pocketers in touristic areas, you hear a lot of crime cases involving immigrants, many prostitutes are immigrants and are exploited. It is maybe few but why adding more crimes when we already have enough of it.
Many immigrants rely on welfare and are eligible as some immigrants do not allow their wives to work and having multiple children is a norm. Left parties always vote against any restrictions.
They push salaries down and causes unemployment. Many do not want to work on underpaid jobs like in restaurants. But immigrants are OK to take those jobs and push salaries down.
So people see that left parties are doing nothing for this, left parties do not want upset their base which contain a lot of people from immigration. So people go to right and far right parties.
Good morning everyone!
Is this a new, shorter style season or an OG 15 week The Apprentice season?
AI is looping You’re_Fired.DALL-X.quicktime.mov and everyone else has been fired by mid season or flailing to compete offscreen every episode.
There’s a laugh track and commercials.
Maybe a shortened season without writers during the strike. Pretty sure we'll see Snooki in a cabinet position before it's all said and done.
Time to fuckin do something
Know how we can directly trace the enshitification of the United States in many ways back to the Reagan administration?
Yeah, we just did that to ourselves again. But probably worse.
Realistically, we're going to spend the remainder of our lives witnessing the further enshitification of this nation.
Reagan was a big jump in shit, but before that Nixon did a ton of damage, and before that Reconstruction didn't hold the traitors accountable for their treason, and before that the Founding Fathers wrote a document that assumed everyone was going to play fair, and before that....
Lets also remember that the dems have watch the build up of shit on our shoes from GOP jumping into cowpies over and over, but they fail to grab a stick and clean it off, all they do is slap a sparkly sticker on the shit covered boot. The entire government is complicit. We took the guardrails off of the capitalists and this is just the death throes of a system built to favor economic gain for the few that need nothing at the cost of a standard of living for those that actually generate the value.
These Republicans are worse than locusts.
Last I heard you could eat locust too
Locusts are at least honest when they come to destroy everything.
I hate the language around the federal budget. First, how budget figures are reporting in 10 year intervals, when everything else is reported in 1 year intervals. So everything sounds 10 times bigger. When like only 5% of the population ever looks at the federal budget, this creates a TON of confusion.
Second, how reductions in tax (like to the rich) are reported as "giveaways". Taxes go in, not out. That's a reduction in revenue, not an expenditure or liability. You can say, "shift the tax burden even more onto the lower and middle classes". Then it's actually accurate. Getting fired from your job is not an expense, it's a loss of income. Same thing.
It might be semantically incorrect but it is still a decrease in tax for the rich which given the current disparity in wealth frankly is barely a distinction at all.
Oh I can feel the trickle!
The title of this is a misleading simplification. $4.5 tn is not "Tax Giveaway to the Rich". It's a maximum cap on total tax cuts that could be in this budget. It is likely to include renewal of 2017 income tax cuts and increased child tax credit - both of these were popular and not just "for rich".
They may also raise SALT cap which benefits higher income people from states with high property taxes. Living in one myself, I can tell you that you don't need a mansion in a top school district to pay much more than $10k in property taxes. So this one is not just for billionaires for sure, but maybe from upper middle class.
There are promises Trump made to eliminate income taxes on tips and social security, which are obviously not beneficial only to rich. But I heard it would cost a lot, especially SS one. Not sure if $4.5tn is enough.
Unfortunately, it looks like proposed spending cuts to Medicaid and food stamps are favored by GOP and may be easy to pass, but they don't cover tax cuts by a big margin. So they can hurt people in need, and still have to balloon national debt even more.
Think of it as redirecting the food assistance to leopards, feeding them poor maga faces.
You will be paying for them in tariffs.
MAGA will blame this on Democrats.
It is on the Democrats, they are also on team kleptocrat. It's past time to wake up!
Whatevs…. Democrats lost the election and Congress. It’s team fascists now. But sure, gripe about the people who very specifically didn’t do this shit.
you must be one of the green voters!
I don't know why this is heavily downvoted. The DNC leadership will benefit from the social safety nets being destroyed along with republicans. Shitty candidates with shitty platforms is as good as endorsing fascists.
Downvote me too, if you must. The underlying problem of only having two viable parties will persist.
Bernie was my guy, but had he won, he wouldnt rule through executive order and would have faced opposition from "both sides"
My god, the downvotes on your comment show just how many on the left are just as ignorant as the MAGA's. Neither party represents the american people anymore. They both serve their capitalist sponsors. The only difference between the GOP and Dems, is that the Dems pretend to care while doing nothing to undue the 30 years of unrestricting capitalism "At least we arnt assholes like the GOP", and the GOP are glaringly transparent about how they dont give 2 fucks about us and just say "Hey you, stupid fucking yokel, that minority group its trendy to hate this decade is the reason you're not a billionaire"
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But as long as you keep getting conned into voting for wedge issues while never demanding anything else, you keep the system working as intended.