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$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!
Oh the government works... Just not for us. Especially since it's went fully rogue
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
The government has always been run by the wealthy, half-assedly protecting workers rights at best. The only logical choice remains - unionization.
The logical choice was to not let trump win, to keep things moving forward and to make progress.
There are a lot of accelerationists in the crowd and they don't appreciate how bad accelerationism makes things. It's a shame.
Things weren't moving forward though, that's exactly how we lost the support of the working class. Inequality and cost of living have been going up every decade.
Bit late for that. I think at this point what you need is a revolution.
What if we win - will we just try again, but voting harder until we need revolution again? With our current demographics, it could easily become a right wing revolution too.
We need a new power structure centered around workers, and always have. This is where capitalism leads.
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.
very little return
Seriously?! Stopping the march of fascism is "very little return"?! You understand that this will get worse and worse, right? It might not seem that bad now, but they'll haul away more and more minority populations, steal more power, start wars, and oppress everyone else. You're not fighting against what conditions are like now. You're fighting against what they will be when he takes full control.
There is only one way out of fascism, and that's by fighting with everything you've got. But it seems like once you finally realize this, it'll be too late.
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.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a great way of exposing that attitude through the Ferengi. Quark, the proprietor of Quark's Bar, mistreats his employees again, and they are pissed. Station chief Miles O'brian tries to rally them to form a union of bar workers and to strike, and one of them, Rom, actually says:
Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters.
The lie of the "american dream" - don't rally against rich people, for you might once become one of them^[your chance might be less than one in a trillion].
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
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.
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.
It's needs to have people there to do everything. You know, instead of all of them being fired.
Maybe the one with the greatest personal consequences, and also the one that's the most routine for them, is not the place you should test first.
I just don't do withholding and invest the money until tax day. It's a higher return, and they won't take your refund to pay overdue student loans.
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...