To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class
To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class
A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.
Surely this will make groceries more affordable.
I'm shocked.
Your tax returns, Sir.
See, this right here is the MAIN AGENDA of the qon elitists.
All the other identity politics bullshit is largely red meat for his dipshit base. Sure, there are true believers like Bannon and Miller that are for that, but this is the MAIN thing: sending more money to the already extremely and obscenely affluent, and fucking the 99%.
Well, that and crashing the economy to steal everything they don't already own for a pittance.
dumbfucks voted for this. jesus fucking christ.
You guys gotta get out of this teamsport mindset.
It's not just them feeling the pinch. It's real people that you probably care about. And we're all in the shit together.
Luigis needed
What ya waiting for?
Crippling back pain that ruins my life anyways
the only answer. don't care about how we got here. no need to highlight their hypocrisy. we move forward from here. keep making the calls until it's deafening.
Chopping off the head of a hydra is not an answer.
Who is feeding it?
Hey, I've seen this one
I dont think these people realize how close they are to being ripped apart in the street by an angry mob...and I kind of hope they don't realize it until its too late.
You're way more optimistic than me about the future of America.
For real. I talk with my friends about the tipping point, and this unfortunately ain't it by a mile. MAGAts don't make up the entirety of R voters, but not one MAGAt would give a shit if D voters started getting rounded up. It's been an incredibly thorough brainwashing effort by whoever spearheaded the effort. R used to mean small government, states rights! Now it means fuck Joe Biden, fuck your feelings, fuck work culture. And it all feels like it happened so fast. Say what you want about Bush, but the sentiment among those who voted for him wasn't this open hostility that we have today.
The only thing getting ripped apart are his pants so they can kiss his ass raw
Are they though? Are they? Or is everyone too focused on not upsetting the status quo to even throw a pebble in protest?
Give it a few months. Also it will be a situation of critical mass. Seemingly nothing until it hits the tipping point, then suddenly massive
Really? The people affected by this wanted this turd in the office or at least didn't have a problem enough with him to go vote for someone else.
Because the people who need this money are leading rough, rough lives already and often don't have the time or energy to properly learn politics. They're the kind of people who can't afford to miss work or looking after their family to vote.
They're victims of their circumstances and now they're going to suffer more for it. They're not the enemies here.
The angry mob came when they didn't win the election 4 years ago.
Don't forget the new tax plan also includes tax increases for us plebs too!
Cut benefits, increase payments! Good job Magoos!
I knew this would happen and loads of people on lemmy accused me of “fearmongering” or “only caring about myself” when I said I’d vote Harris
"Kamala Harris is not the perfect progressive candidate in every way. How can I possibly vote for her? I'll sit this one out. That'll show 'em!"
Trump won because the people that voted for him actually like him, they aren't choosing the lesser of two evils or whatever nonsense. The democrats message of "at least we aren't as bad" was awfully inspiring.
Hey democrats, if you win what will you do with that power? Change nothing? Cool!
Blame the democrats for getting tight lipped about literally anything anyone cared about.
I voted for her because she was the lesser evil, but describing her as just “not the perfect progressive candidate in every way” is a gross misrepresentation. She was probably the most right leaning Democratic candidate to run in a general election and was openly adopting many of the Republican stances. There were basically two Republicans running.
With me, at least, they have moved on to, "you care more about your gay daughter than Palestinians!" Which... yeah. That's called parenting. Along with, "why are you worried about a queer genocide that hasn't happened yet?!" Because I don't want to chance it? People can be such assholes.
It’s like yeah.
If both candidates mean gaza is fucked, but one of them means hundreds of thousands of extra unnecessary deaths to disabled people, homeless people, migrants, poor people, queer and trans people etc.
Of fucking course I’ll pick the least bad option instead of being apathetic about it. Especially since I’m a disabled poor person who has had bouts of homelessness.
That’s nuts. “Only voting for yourself” is usually a trump vote. Generally, a Left-wing voter asks “What’s best for everyone?” and a Right-wing voter asks “What’s best for me?”
Of course, the Democrat party isn’t left-wing (more like middle-right) but still, it’s a far less selfish vote than trump.
I don't know about your life, but my life is made better by the acceptance and participation of all sorts of people. I'm selfishly voting for Democrats because I have 4 daughter and a gay son.
My wife and I make enough money and I could be happy on less if it improved the environment around me by improving the lives of the people I share the world with. Those brown people would be a hell of a lot less scary to us white people if so many of them weren't in desperate financial straits, and if we didn't teach them to expect hatred and cruelty from us.
I'm a selfish-as-fuck-left-wing-voter.
cutting taxes for the wealthy could risk damaging the populist image that Trump has cultivated.
It's never seemed to damage his image with his supporters before. He could hold them down and shit into their mouths and they'd find a reason to think it was an ok thing to do
He wouldn't need to hold them down. They would be lining up for it.
LMFAO, WHAT BENEFITS?!?!?
While I agree the US does a fraction of what they could: Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
WIC
HUD
ESG
COC
Department of Education
The list goes on and on. If you think there aren't a LOT of social programs that they can cut, you are in for a very, very rough time.
Buddy, I'm being sarcastic here. I KNOW they're gonna destroy tons of public services like that. The cruelty is the point.
I sympathize with the commentor who you are responding to although I know my present crap life could always get worse and probably will. Just doesn't feel like much to lose
Hmm interesting how all the efficiency that they are introducing requires cutting benefits. Almost as if they were pleasing the 1% or something.
What I'm hearing is... the rich get richer. Hmmm...
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows
almost as if it were billionaires working for the benefit of other billionaires...
Idk how it hasn't occurred to these billionaires yet that some of those few benefits are what keeping people from going full Luigi. They keep fucking around.
This is dumb, you can do America First policies and have FDR-type socialism, or Nordic model policies, together. American permanent residents and citizens should get benefits they pay for via their taxes. Simple.
It is dumb, as long as your goal is to be as rich as possible and not be as powerful as possible
You will generate better profit from a rich population; they'll also advocate for your business if you openly support their ascension, and you'd lose nothing in profits by doing so
But you do lose power. Power over people, and the benefit of doubt that the government won't strike down on you if you appease, and the people will have more important shit to focus on now that their benefits are gone
Both parties did this, republicans can do it more outwardly without causing a split in parties
America is the land of wealth not well-being. Would you want to live out your retirement in America or Denmark?
The country already has too many homeless, this would make it worse.
Why would you be homeless when you could just
perform slave laborgrow organic lettuce on aisolated off-the-gridtech-freecampfarm in Kansas?That's the plan for people "addicted" to (prescribed) amphetamines and ssri's, right? What is that, like, 1 in 3 millennials? (no shade I'm in that group)
Why not
sendoffer the homeless to go there too, if it's so great?
If you slash OUR services, then you slash OUR taxes. You want to save the rich money, stop spending their taxes on bombs to rip the legs of little kids in Palestine, you ain't spending my money on propping up their system, you're using my money to help US citizens first. I'll set an appointment with the cheese turd, might execute his secret service first just so he fuckibg listens for once. Also it's not illegal to threaten secret service like it is the president. Hi secret service guy, I look forward to beating you to death so I can get to your boss for a genuine conversation where he realizes he is not all that powerful without you idiots pointing guns for him. See you soon shit squat.