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GOP tax bill would cost poor Americans $1,600 a year and boost highest earners by $12,000, CBO says
  • These numbers should be taken with a massive grain of salt.

    The bill is far too expansive to give reliable estimates. Even those in similar income brackets will realize very different outcomes, depending on their individual circumstances. But yes, generally the poor and working class will suffer financially, and the wealthy will benefit. Those closest to either end of the wealth spectrum will see the greatest of these effects, which will be far beyond the figures predicted here.

  • Israel strikes Iran, no US involvement, US officials say
  • Do you not think that deciding to commit a war crime by intentionally targeting and murdering over 200,000 civilians, was perhaps a bad call?

    Or perhaps intentionally targeting journalists, doctors, first responders, schools, hospitals, entire apartment buildings, is actually acceptable because the conflict will supposedly end sooner?

  • Israel strikes Iran, no US involvement, US officials say
  • That type of flawed logic is exactly what led to atomic bombs being used to kill hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians, and is Israel's supposed justification for their barbaric campaign against Palestinians.

  • Newsom brands Trump a ‘dictator’ after National Guard deployed
  • Their official plan to "combat" Trump is to do nothing to stop him, then fundraise off the chaos he creates. They're not actually trying to stand in his way, nor do they want to. They only care about the outcome of the next election, and more chaos means more donations. They don't care if working people are bankrupted or suffer in the meantime, because they've literally said they're now relying on funding from megadonors instead. Megadonors who share many financial interests with conservatives...

    This, of course, is all built on the (flawed) assumption that the next elections are totally guaranteed to occur and will be super normal, completely ignoring the entire Jan 6 affair and aftermath, the sprint toward the far-right, fascism, and authoritarianism, and that SCOTUS declared POTUS to be basically god-king.

    It's clearly either controlled opposition, dereliction of duty, sheer stupidity, or all of the above.

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