Trump & Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” would be one of the largest wealth transfers from the working class to the wealthy in U.S. history. But how would it affect YOU? We built a calculator. Plug in your info to see what it’d mean for your finances. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int... - ThreadSky

jacobbogage.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Trump & Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” would be one of the largest wealth transfers from the working class to the wealthy in U.S. history.

But how would it affect YOU?

We built a calculator.

Plug in your info to see what it’d mean for your finances.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/trump-big-beautiful-bill-your-taxes-cuts/

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grandpadavid.bsky.social•1 day ago

Serious question: can this factor in the future cost of the need to raise money to service the (greatly) increased national debt? I guess that would depend on how future budgets are structured.

cypressvh.bsky.social•1 day ago

Things that seem like they are a public service should not be stuck behind paywalls.

esbaldwin.bsky.social•1 day ago

Please gift this article. I gave up my WaPo subscription when Bezos bent the knee.

theenettiemac.bsky.social•1 day ago

Gifting article.

https://wapo.st/4ni2usr

carolm2691.bsky.social•1 day ago

It would be helpful if others could access the links you post without subscribing to the publication!

omnigeek.bsky.social•1 day ago

Interesting, but did Penn factor in that offloading costs down to the states will increase state taxes to pay for it? Or that changing it may lead to paying more for health insurance as insurers raise group rate plans and employers can't absorb all of that?

madamadelaseer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well, since most of us are at or below the poverty level we stand to loose.

vjm4democracy.bsky.social•1 day ago

But you didn’t ‘gift’ it so that non-subscribers can play?!!

sbwriter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Incomprehensible article. Is "total change" more taxes or less? Your graph shows that no one loses from the bill. How is that possible? Retired guy with $90K of income gets a $4K bigger deduction and his taxes fall by more than $5K? Basically, the bill wipes out most of his taxes? How?

stateside.bsky.social•1 day ago

Haha they put it behind a paywall so everyone can’t do the calculations.

jerseypatrick.bsky.social•1 day ago

We have to pay Bezos to see how much we will lose? NAY, as the Brits say.

coyoteblue.bsky.social•1 day ago

You can't even view a gift link without signing in.

europeaninsf.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Paywalled

bewildered37.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump’s MAGA base includes ICE’s Gestapo, Military deployed against U.S. Citizens, a corrupt SCOTUS, & millions of Neo-Nazis who hate People of Color. Led by lifelong racist Donald Trump, these MAGAts are trying to convert the USA into a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy.

406inthelou.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

federalistosx.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is a shitty visualization, using absolute $ instead of % change (how people will experience losses) and skewed to people earning above the median household income (about $78k). A single senior earning $90k? This is unserious.

meemawsezwhut.bsky.social•1 day ago

We shouldn't prep politely.

Polite is so 2012

The only normal reaction is RAGE and RESISTANCE and possibly a very very French way to regain national sanity

Wouldn't it be amazing if the wealthy felt the fear the rest of us deal with on the daily

jimhoover017.bsky.social•1 day ago

Are there "rich people, click here" "everyone else, click here" buttons?

adavelikeanyother.bsky.social•1 day ago

Of course, we must have a WaPo subscription to use it. A gifted link would be more appropriate when sharing.

tarethen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can you make it free to use instead of behind a paywall?

owlgoddess24.bsky.social•1 day ago

You know what: someone needs to make a tv game show where live folks come on, give all their financials and then, have to guess how much they will be screwed by Republican policies. Could do it for all policies, not just tax.

The announcer can say, “And our contestant loses….EVERYTHING (or DIES).

thedailyrobin.bsky.social•1 day ago

AND

You were lied to America and MAGA bought the LIE's

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckglxwp5x03o

optifum.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m a bit disappointed that your calculator doesn’t at least include Virginia and Maryland. You think this is strictly local?

jacobbogage.bsky.social•1 day ago

It does! You can select your own state!

optifum.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh I see. I’m used to a drop-down menu, not a fill-in.

bkelsey91.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bezos let you do this?

itriedtotellyall.bsky.social•1 day ago

Paywall

mnehlsta.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does it include whether you or a family member need access to a rural hospital or ACA marketplace plan? Whether anyone meaningful to you is immunocompromised, brown-skinned, not easily gender classified and compliant to prevailing norms? No judgment meant. only broadening context.

lurkermclurkface.bsky.social•1 day ago

My family will do well with this, and I still want it killed because you can't calculate the damage to society it will cause.

emerald-aly.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, I have no dependents and I'm not on any government aid. But I'm also not a sociopath -- this bill can die in a fire.

emerald-aly.bsky.social•1 day ago

I get it, journalists gotta eat, too, but it's ironic as hell for this particular article to be paywalled.

nonrev321.bsky.social•1 day ago

Before anyone gets excited on what would be a great public and civic service..... its behind a paywall unless you create a WP account.

c0sm0s.bsky.social•1 day ago

Feels like you got away with this because Bezos was distracted by his wedding. Save a copy while you can.

rabid-child.bsky.social•1 day ago

The graphic looks like a board game with anime characters.

catharsis23.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dang so tech assholes in Silicon Valley get $20k+ while regular folks get maybe $2k. Seems bs

all1worde.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Bezo could give everyone free access to WaPo and give all you employees raises from now on with no affect his lifestyle, but he rather get the money and more importantly the personal data of everyone. Applaud the effort, but it does a disservice to everyone you hope to help with the information.

all1worde.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Especially because if you plug in his numbers, he is probably in the top ten of all beneficiaries of this. He could probably cover all WaPo’s losses with how much he will be enriched by this.

sethdmichaels.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is cool, but it's somewhat limiting to set the max income at 450k because people who make more than that are going to be even bigger beneficiaries

geeska.bsky.social•1 day ago

No interest in feeding the Bezos machine

glenn-florence.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep. And who needs a calculator for what everyone knows is a bill that is designed to destroy our country and feed the rich? Sick of the me, me, me mentality. It fucks OUR country. End of story.

powertothepeople2.bsky.social•1 day ago

You have to make an account to read an article for “free”… that’s some Bezos shit.

withoutpause.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can't even see the full article in the 'free' version after being subscribed. The revolution will not be televised. It will be paywalled.

beerzieboy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bozos has enough money to make the Washington Post a free service. He does not.

carolmacpherson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Pay wall

jacobbogage.bsky.social•1 day ago

We made some profiles of taxpayers.

Tara is low-income and relies on Medicaid and SNAP. She’s got two kids.

She’d be $870 worse off because of cuts to benefit programs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/trump-big-beautiful-bill-your-taxes-cuts/

wohinjetzt.bsky.social•1 day ago

While ignoring a large part of the population- single people with no children.

builttoshill.bsky.social•1 day ago

She looks pretty happy compared to the real people hurt by taxes.

jacobbogage.bsky.social•1 day ago

Meet Aaron. Very wealth taxpayer.

This bill is a windfall for him.

He’s $22,000 better off. The gains largely come from SALT and the extension of tax rates for the uber wealthy. And they’re paid for by cutting into antipoverty programs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/trump-big-beautiful-bill-your-taxes-cuts/

jacobbogage.bsky.social•1 day ago

Now go plug in YOUR info!

Here’s what the median taxpayer would look like:
- $70k income
- no dependents
- no SALT

Better off by about $1,800.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/trump-big-beautiful-bill-your-taxes-cuts/

cr0wgrrl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Love to try it but it's behind a paywall and the Post, overall, is giving us way too shoddy reporting on Trump to pay to see this, even though I'd be interested in the results.

seekingtheroot.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is an interesting and worthwhile analysis. But it's critical not to use it without recognizing the broader impact of the bill--on others who would hurt, and on the deficit, healthcare, and the economy in general, all of which would hurt the median taxpayer probably more than they gain.

tobellz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can't really model the effects of destabilization as people lose housing and rural hospitals close.

sigmundine.bsky.social•1 day ago

Gift the article.

jacobbogage.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think if you’d really like to read it, consider making a free account or subscribing.

It costs money to make resources like this — and you clearly think it’s valuable and worth your time.

So just think about it. Thanks.

ladyasrai.bsky.social•1 day ago

Do you always act like a patronizing scold for common practices online or do you just find women to do it at?

You could have made this suggestion on your own wall and been fine.

Don't actually bother responding. I just wanted you to know that what you did was a red flag viewable from orbit.

sigmundine.bsky.social•1 day ago

I gift The NY Times every time I share it because I’m generous. You apparently are not. So forget about it.

jacobbogage.bsky.social•1 day ago

We teamed up with the good folks at the Penn Wharton Budget Model to build this calculator.

They’re the gold standard in modeling dynamic economic effects.

The takeaway: there are clear winners and losers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/trump-big-beautiful-bill-your-taxes-cuts/

ericjmorey.com•1 day ago

Seems like this doesn't include the context of the import taxes or the the impact of loss of access to healthcare due to healthcare facilities closing or the loss of income of employees at those facilities.

ericjmorey.com•1 day ago

The bill takes from healthcare and community support to give to ICE and law enforcement and billionaires while exploding the debt. It's a disaster for the median earner even if your limited review says they may end up with a larger number in their cash flow.

jacobbogage.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is modeled on the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill.

It’s of course changed quite a bit in the Senate, and now Republicans are fighting amongst themselves.

Here’s what they can’t seem to agree on:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/25/trump-tax-bill-disagreements/

adavelikeanyother.bsky.social•1 day ago

Many, if not most, users abandoned WaPo months ago). My money isn't going back to them. All said, WaPo links are useless with subscription.

jacobbogage.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m Jacob Bogage, @washingtonpost.com’s economics geek in Congress. I spend every day doing stuff like this.

Got a news tip? Contact me securely on Signal: @jacobbogage.87

xandr-clark.bsky.social•1 day ago

One Big Brutal Bill.

Furthermore, 86 47.

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