It wouldn’t be hard to protect Medicaid and funding to rural hospitals and still reduce our nation’s ballooning debt and deficit. The Rs would just have to make the wealthy and corporations pay slightly more in taxes. (PS Rs are never serious about the debt and deficit when they are in power).
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Why should a CEO pull $50m a year and 95% of it come in the form of unearned income though ISOs that avoid paying into FICA?
Counter messaging for the middle class.
-protect health care
-tax cut to help offset Trump’s sales tax increase
-invest in future
-reduce deficit
I’ve lived through enough R presidencies to know that wrecking the economy is a feature, not a bug. And I’m damn sick of it.
Congress created “PAYGO” which puts automatic, artificial restraints on spending.
These are the important questions.
Fed budget is not a household budget.
Congress needs to spend to invest in the welfare of the people. Limiting factor is inflation caused by not enough productive capacity in economy available to meet demand.
Call The Capitol switchboard and you can leave msgs now. Fill those answering machines to the brim.
Get a drink. Take a seat. Call during commercials.
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Why should rich Rs care about that?
AXE CARTELS, get real pricing. Helps VA, Medi, ALL #PublicOption
$30K or $3K for hernia surgery?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-drives-five-hours-for-surgery-insurance-wont-cover-hernia-surgery-central-texas-2019-10-11/
Reagan's entire agenda was predicated around lowering taxes and eliminating non defense govt programs.
The highest tax rate for individuals was 28% in 1988. It has been 37% since 2019.
The top marginal tax rate before that was 50%. And 70% prior to 1981. I said that rates were much higher for most of his Presidency and should be at that level again.
As for "sanewashing in the extreme," hyperbole is a sign of binary thinking.
Reagan is not an example of appropriate tax policy. He cut the highest rate by 43 points. And beat into the voters' minds that all taxes are bad.
I wouldn't use him as an example when talking about raising taxes.
The problem is taxes, period. Not just on the wealthy & corporations. Yes, we need higher tax rates on the highest earners, but they NEED to go up on middle earners as well.
*Everyone* has been cutting taxes since Clinton; you can't keep cutting revenue w/out creating a huge deficit.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxes-compare-internationally
Don’t Tear Me Up
One of my favorite Mick songs w/ or
w/o the Stones.
“Life is a bitch
But it's way too short
Unlike a politician
It just can't be bought”
As Senate votes on budget to KILL AMERICANS, ask yourself this: Who is paying off GOP?! 🖕🏻🇷🇺!!
https://youtu.be/CQEFlJhkhA8?...
Only now the spots are starting to show. I hate it here. Smh.
We need to be clear - their corporate handlers would never allow that to happen.
It is just a sound bite to them.
Slightly more is the operative phrase here.
Why are uber-rich people so averse to paying their fair share to help the country that MADE THEM WEALTHY?!?
They have so much they wouldn't even notice paying a few cents more on the dollar...the greed is strong with these people.
She realizes that poor people like getting free healthcare but thinks other don’t.
From the party that scrubbed “universal healthcare & public option” from their 2024 platform in exchange for “access” to unaffordable healthcare.
You lost for a reason you’ll never understand.
C'mon D. Doo your job.
it's just a tactic to block social programs
It’s not a tax break, it’s a SUBSIDY.
Trump wants all Americans to pay rich people to be richer.
Say rich people want us to do that for them.
Say they need more yachts.
But tell them to pull their own bootstraps up.
We need to get rid of Insurance Companies.....
Stop the Trump Tax Cuts which cause trillions in waste to pad the rich's bank accounts. And stop the attack on social services to give them those tax cuts! Shame on the GOP bowing down to the rich.
#DemsUnite!
#MakeSomeNoise! 💥
3rd Claire here with a huge agree !!
A handful of people hoarding wealth like dragons while the rest of the population suffers is absolutely evil.
The refuse to pay (actual) living wages in the economy their draconian hoarding has caused endless inflation.
#ImpeachTrump
#ImpeachConvictRemove
@fsfp.bsky.social
https://impeachtrumpagain.org
I called Hawley’s office and gave him hell. I ended the call saying: As long as Senator McCaskill was in Office, Missourians didn’t worry about the betrayal of cuts to Social Security Medicaid/Medicare coddling the rich.
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Bush Jr. pass a Trojan Horse Tax cut plan that has accumulated debt.
All the national debt is from Republicans tax cut policies.
All our benefits have been slashed for tax cuts the RICH benefit in our takeover.
🤔
And THAT is still a bridge too far...
Healthcare for all - take Wall Street death panels out of American taxpayer healthcare systems. NOW
For 3 months, twisting in the wind.
They WILL all die there.
CECOT is the noose.
None had gang affiliations. Most legal immigrants with no criminal record.
What Made America Great?
LYNCHING.
They simply dont care if rural areas get care or not.
It's all about what Rs are going to get.
Greed and cruelty is the point.
They ignore the Constitution on life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for anyone else.
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They only represent themselves & their rich donors...making MAGAS in Congress RICHER.
And Trump? He only seeks more money, power, & control while on a mission of VENGEANCE & trying to make America WHITE thru "deportations".
You gotta try this one:
Flourless Chocolate Espresso Cake Recipe - Martha Stewart
https://www.marthastewart.com/1012740/flourless-chocolate-espresso-cake
oh and by the way, thank you for your amazing work to protect our democracy! You are a true American hero!
They will not endure.
We will endure.
And we will win.
“First they ignore you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Really, Claire? You have nothing better to do with your time...?