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FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class

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To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class

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A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.
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    Don’t forget the new tax plan also includes tax increases for us plebs too!

    Cut benefits, increase payments! Good job Magoos!

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      National sales tax incoming.

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        Don’t start giving Mango Mussolini any ideas.

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          What do you think Tariffs are? It’s the Trump Sales Tax.

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            I thought the Trump sales tax was the $64B crypto rug-pull he did on his sycophants.

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              Well, that was the opt-in stuff. There are other things that will get everyone, not just his dumbass supporters.

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              Nah that’s just him defrauding the people who voted for them after they are no longer of use to him.

              Voters are of no consequence on a second term when your political party is literally a cult of personality. I can’t believe the republican party sold out so quickly for a cash grab like this.

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            Yup and expect some things to get expensive starting as early as this Saturday:

            https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-30/trump-says-he-ll-hit-canada-mexico-with-25-tariffs-on-saturday?leadSource=reddit_wall

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              Why does this joyless asshole insist on dropping political bullshit on Saturdays and holidays? I guess misery really does love company.

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                Idk but if he does it, things are about to get ugly. We’re (Canada) threatening to cut off power to places like NY and Wisconsin in retaliation. Ontario is also in an election cycle and the incumbent (conservative ironically) is running on a platform of being the toughest person to fight the US on this stuff, so he’s really going to fight it.

                We’re all going to really be hurt by this shit

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                  We’re all going to really be hurt by this shit

                  Indeed. I love our maple syrup cartel neighbors. Sweet death is vastly preferred to this mutually assured destruction of ‘tariff’ sales tax bullshit.

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          Oh they’ve been proposing that for years.

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            Oh I know, just making jokes to compensate for the crushingly depressive state of things.

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      But the price for food is down… It is, right?

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        Its going to double or tripple if we deport or scare half the ag workforce away and don’t offer an exorbitant wage to do the time sensitive work leading to food rotting

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          He’ll probably just use prisoners.

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