You know, the more time passes, the more I’m wondering if Trump lied when he said he wouldn’t touch Medicare / Medicaid. Surely he wouldn’t break a promise…
They could tax billionaires who benefit from public infrastructure like roads and laws and citizens at work and who won’t change their lifestyle for the lesser by paying taxes at all and it would fund most of the country.
billionaires who benefit from public infrastructure like roads
Oh, the billionaires don’t use up the roads: they fly from their overpriced condos’ helipad to their private yachts’ helipad to their mansions in the Hamptons and private-jet to their resorts on the Cote d’Azur.
Those people never touch the ground - literally as well as figuratively.
They do impose an insane cost on our environment however.
I meant more so their businesses that use trucks to ship things and deliver. Also having employees get to work, literally anything outside lol.
Shall they never have to travel as those filthy poors do.
They still use air traffic controllers, which is a government paid job if I’m not mistaken. The government would also back them up if their private jet or heli encountered an emergency and had to land due to a failure with the aircraft. The government regulates when and how their private planes have to be inspected and ready to fly. The government provides the water that the employees that gas up and maintain the aircraft use, and the roads that get them there.
So they may believe they don’t need the government, but it’s a big part of almost everything we do everywhere.
Children of Kali when?
The whole reason they want to cut medicaid is to justify their tax cuts for billionaires, so I don’t think that will help their depraved goal.
What Can House Republicans Cut Instead of Medicaid? Not Much.
Peak NYT headlining there.
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if the plan is to run up a massive debt now and then push the responsibility for dealing with that debt onto democrats if they win control after midterms.
It’s actually worse than that. Who stands to get hurt the most from a severe downturn? Small/medium business owners. Who stands to wind up on top? Billionaires that can take the hit and then some. So as all these startups and medium sized businesses start going under, who’s there to buy the business on the cheap? Billionaires. Then they think they can turn around and recover the economy and make even more billions. The problem is that the US economy is teetering on the edge of a precipice that it can never return to if we lose the dollar standard and petro-dollar.
Who stands to wind up on top? Billionaires that can take the hit and then some
Billionaires make money when the economy works well, and make a fuckton more money when it doesn’t
Billionaires never take any hit. It’s only honest people with real jobs who get hurt.
Oh absolutely. It’s not a real hit by any means. But what they want is a bigger version of the wealth transfer that happened at each of these last “bumps”.
Oh, you mean the Two Santa Claus tactic that they’ve been using for literally decades?
That’s not a conspiracy theory; that’s just normal. I’m pretty sure what Trump is planning is even worse than that.
That’s what they’ve done at least since Reagan so…
Trump a liar? Surely not. /s
I have a feeling that chart isn’t being very genuine.
How come? The federal government is basically defense and insurance. Everything else is a rounding error. (Which is why you can’t actually cut $2 trillion without cutting defense spending, social security, or Medicaid/Medicare.)
Because that chart doesn’t show defense… Its Medicare, Medicaid, and then 4 blocks of (other)
Spending overseen by the House Committee On Energy and Commerce
instructs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the program, to cut spending by $880 billion over the next decade
Non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/Fb5zB
There’s actually a shitton of things they could cut, both NYT and US government just refuse to even consider cutting all the subsidies the U.S. gives to companies posting profits of billions of dollars. There’s absolutely something in the $850 billion dollars given to the U.S. military that could be cut, but it is considered sacrosanct to these bastards.
There are other things but the interest is not there.
