The average person wouldn't give a flying fart in the wind if tax cuts were funded by eliminating red tape, and removing things that actually didn't make things safer, or more secure in availability. That said, I see no changes to medicaid to indicate things have gotten better for serving citizens, to me it looks like a Congress that is only useful to pass budgets, is cutting essential services and this is a recreation of Ronnie Reagans tax cuts that left mentally ill individuals to fend for themselves and die under a bridge from pneumonia. But, you have to understand Ronnie was fighting the soviets so your uncle that worked for 40 years paying into the system before their sanity shattered certainly didn't mind losing their housing and begging just to put a warm meal in their belly. Let alone the potential fall out from cutting red tape that is there to protect people, and literally ANYONE that wants to bypass it is either making working conditions, products safety, and/or public safety worse. This should make it apparent to the average person the Republican party is NOT your friend. And they are no more patriotic than any idiot that can drape themselves in the flag while "born in the USA" plays over the PA.
politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
$2 trillion in deeply harmful cuts through 2034 in programs and services for families and communities, including cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and student loans.
Any vestiges of actually good things the federal government does are being wittled away. F***ing pathetic
Didn't you hear? They're telling us the government doesn't work.
Here's an example, straight from their policies!
That’s Republicanism 101 - clamor incessantly about broken government, then break it after gaining office to say “I told you so”!
If only we could have stopped this somehow
You still could, but it requires taking to the streets in protest. The days are ticking away as he consolidates his power. It won't always be an option.
I appreciate the protests that are happening, but protests won't do much until polling changes.
Pretty sure Trump just made a thinly veiled threat on the life of the Governor of Maine while declaring that, "I am the federal law".
You're asking a lot of people for very little return.
I know people who voted for Trump because they thought these tax cuts would apply to them. With them not being super rich, it’s never going to happen. Can’t convince them otherwise though.
It's because they all think that they're temporarily inconvenienced billionaires, with rivers of money about to pour in, any time now.. any day... so of course they vote for anything that will benefit them based on their expectation of being part of that group
Last time they gave a few $1000 that expired after a few years. They'll probably do something similar again.
and yet, conservatives will eat it up. while screaming cry more libs, and crying about owning the left whatever they think that means as majority poor members of the working class 💀 you can't make this shit up
I haven't heard them explaining this. Have they said that this will help the rich pay the poor, or have they dropped all pretence yet?
Conservatives don't care, all they hear is "Donald trump is winning and that's great!"
Nazis are fucking stupid.
Might be time to just worry about state taxes and not federal.
Yup. Good luck getting a federal refund check this year if you're eligible.
You file up to five years ago for your taxes. I'm sitting this one out for federal.
First, if there's one thing the federal government is good at doing, it's getting normal people to pay their taxes. Besides, you've probably already had the taxes withheld from your payroll and you're just stalling on the end of year balancing of books.
Second, I know nobody has told them yet, but we print the money. Not paying your taxes is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts them. If anything it just gives them a valid excuse to go after the people they wanted to go after anyway.
Don't change to their whims.
This is bad advice.
Im nobody's role modal, and I never said I advise doing anything. I said good luck and this is what I'm doing.
Wow look at all the corruption they're uncovering, that's crazy how much money they are saving us Americans. I can't wait to recoup my money the government is saving...