So decades of tax cuts for billionaires didn't create more jobs, didn't result in wealth for the middle class, didn't upscale manufacuting , didn't bring benefits like healthcare and higher education. Billionaires squirlled their money. Thats a Republican failure.
This is Trump's id/psyche:
'Adloff Hitler Collection of Speeches 1923-1945' per Trump's first wife was on his nightstand. One dated 4/10/1923 stated that economic policy needed a sword, compared democracy to a boil needing removal, racism, and people needed to "..hate, hate and once again hate."
Arguably the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American people is the concept of "trickle down economics." If anything it was "trickle on economics."
Augusta GA airport at the Masters Tournament. So many private jets they couldn’t accept any more. Yes, the rich need a tax break and the rest of us don’t need Medicaid or Social Security.
Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.
They wouldn't have to go to as high a rate as Clinton used, they could do a halfway point. There are many things that could be done that apparently will not be done.
That made sense under Biden too, but nothing was done then either. It's come to the point where I don't trust either side anymore (four Dems voted to kill women's power to vote!) There are only a handful of politicians I still trust.
I haven't trusted either side since November 6th. Though to be fair, Biden would have needed Congress to make the rich pay their share. Which he did do to an extent with, I believe, the Inflation Reduction Act after Manchin killed the Build Back Better Act which would have done the job.
The plan of Project 2025 and its Billionaire Proponents all along has been to burn it all down - with only Dictatorship to remain.
BUT EVIL ALWAYS PLANTS THE SEEDS OF ITS OWN DESTRUCTION.
THERE WILL BE A RECKONING!
Morning Joe likes to suck up to Mike, I can’t figure out why. What a pair of clowns. Social Security is paid for separately out of payroll taxes, the program has nothing to do with the cumulative national debt. Mike knows this, but the Republican playbook says, pretend otherwise.
I stop watching because of Joe’s pontificating. I would like for them to replace Joe and Mika with Willy. You can watch him roll his eyes when Joe starts.
Ummm, you are right that SS is taxed separately, but it is included in the unified budget and the deficit. The trust fund surplus is just IOUs from the government to SS. There is no pile of money. The answer is to increase taxes on the wealthy.
Both of these guys are benefiting from $Trump's tax scam plan that gives huge tax breaks to men like them!
The ONLY way the maga party can reel in the deficit and balance the budget is by cutting OUR benefits and Medicaid.
The DEIA Working Class party is going to pay for the Oligarch class to play
Why not cut the salaries and benefits of those you elected? It’s the peoples’ money after all and they can reduce the salaries and benefits as they aware the boss!
We should make sure we die in front of the White House. With my last dime, I will make that trip so when I die of starvation or lack of medical care, they have to walk past my corpse.
What does he mean by cuts? It’s our money? We paid into it. Not paying at least what we paid into it, plus what our employers have paid into, plus interest over the years we have been contributing is theft. I sure hope he isn’t planning to steal our money.
It does not increase the deficit. It doesn't get a dollar from taxes, it's our money we invested in ourselves. But MAGA is too fucking STOOPID to realize this! Yes, I misspelled stupid because I want the igits who don't know the difference between they're, there and their to understand!
Once the Republicans cut Medicare, Social Security and Veterans benefits also, there will be no more health care systems. People need to assess their priorities. Do they need a politician or do they need a doctor?
Time to put those old fucks on an ice berg and set it adrift in the arctic sea. What is different from that, here? There are more humane ways to kill off unwanted burdens on society. Like hanging politicians.
Hey. I'm just saying what cutting medicaid to those seniors in homes is similar to. I didn't invent that.
Making repercussions real for those making decisions for us is also what I'm saying here.
I agree. everything about this is disgusting.
Tough to enforce. Especially when people have to work multiple jobs
It's going to cause a massive crash in the system with a shutdown of homes to care for the large boomer population and their kids working to death to survive that can't take them.
Just another impending disaster
Only 30 of US states have filial laws. I am in one, MO. that does not. I took care of my parents. My father at 92 lived with me. He had Lewy body dementia. It was the most exhausting, backbreaking thing i've ever done, but I did it & not because it was the law. I am 72, & don't expect it of my kids
Oh my goodness.Thank you so much for saying that. Unless you've gone through it, you just don't know how insane taking care of somebody with that particular form of dementia is. You made my day💓 thank you so much
I agree that it’s not realistic to rule out cuts to social security, Medicaid and Medicare since we all know you rich right wingers have been itching to slash all of them for decades. We know you’ll do it if you can get away with it.
Social Security was paid into by the people who are going to use it for the rest of their lives that is not free money. it's like people putting money into savings you can't just take that away from them it's not your money to take
Have any cuts been made to Elon’s subsidies? Any cuts to Congress budgets? Any cuts to Trump’s golf games? Any cuts to Congress healthcare or pensions? Hmmm odd.
I wouldn't worry about this. Most republicans are hardcore christians and they will take care of their fellow neighbors. It's in the bible so they gotta follow that right.
Pretend mountain man lumberjack needs to be cut off from congress, and forced to get a real working job where you’re not paid to lie and screw over people. The horror.
It is absolutely unrealistic, unreasonable, and untenable to Cut Social Security that provides a lifeline abd critical funds to Americans while billionaires and millionaires get more tax cuts more money abd simply take take take
The legs on NY-17 Rep Lawler seat just broke, looks like his position on SS, Medicare, Medicaid will lose him his seat in the midterms. NY deserves better, much better.
and shitstain pundits won't correct that Social Security 100% funds itself with dedicated revenue stream that republicans steal to give to their filthy rich donors
In a March 2025 White House statement, Trump reaffirmed his commitment not to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. Does that count for anything, or do we just have to accept the President lied?
Some of us knew he was a lying POS from the get go. He finally might be losing some support. He refuses any public meeting with us, his constituents. He knows it would make for some very ugly TV.
You rethuglican prick why must the working class always have to bare the burden for tax cuts to fuckin robber barrons, who don't even need it, make them pay there fair share, you blood suckin leeches are good for nothing, a pox on all your houses, and may the fate of 1789 France be yours.
If they do that, their magic maga world will come down around them.
People who are already burning the candle at both ends to take care of their senior parents will come out in droves.
What they don't get is that we paid into it for our retirement otherwise they can just raise the federal tax rate. This isn't a tax, this is our savings and they are robbing us of it.
The fine people of the Lower Hudson Valley, the choice was between him and an African-American who was according to all the commercials an antisemitic supporter of Hamas...
But truth of the matter, it was the tax cut that sealed the deal...
According to commercials.. 🤔 I wonder if there is any regret. I live in a blue bubble. But the uber wealthy tech bros here leaned into Trump also because of tax cuts. And they started moving their HQs to Texas 😂 I’m not sure how happy they are now with a recession coming at us full speed.
How about we stop handing out massive tax breaks to billionaires? The GOP’s plan to take from working families and give to the ultra-rich is outrageous, and yet, thanks to Fox News, Main Street has been sold on the lie that it’s the only way forward
How about someone pointing out that SS and Medicare are self-funding. It comes from current FICA taxes. It does not come from the general tax fund. It can neither increase nor decrease the debt. It has nothing to do with the deficit. The FICA funds cannot be used for anything else.
It absolutely is if you simply make greedy billionaires pay their share. Republicans are going to steal our money. They’d steal money from their own parents, grandparents and constituents under the guise of fiscal responsibly so we shouldn’t be surprised.
But it is you bribed SOB , these safety insurance programs need to be expanded just like political bribery needs removed and if your caught taking political bribery for favors fir 4,8 etc. years its not a tip its shoukd be a tip too prison !
Grandma’s $65/day social security isn’t the issue, it’s Elon’s $8,000,000/day for exploding rockets. Tax the rich & make them pay, lift their cap on paying into social security, make them pay every month of the year, then make it waste and illegal if they take social security when not needed.
It is entirely logical and reasonable to use money for US citizens when it actually belongs specifically to those citizens as it was deposited by themselves solely for their benefit.
Raise, or better yet, get rid of the earnings cap on Social Security and Medicare and then you wouldn’t have to even think about cutting Social Security and Medicare. Also, get rid of tax loopholes that are designed to allow rich people/corps to pay lower taxes than middle class.
Wife and I pay 24%.Every raise I get I add money to taxes.I claim 0 dependants married filing single still doesn't take enough.Don't make anywhere close to a half million.1st yr tax changes I pd over $8K. I still pay close to 4k/yr. I'm married with a child and house.These fvcks pay 1%, now want SS
Why don’t we eliminate trumps golf trips every weekend costing taxpayers 30 million a weekend. Leave your hands off of social security that’s not yours to mess with
Yet they're throwing away $26BILLION contributed by undoc immigrants. And we have to pay $6M a year to ENSLAVE 🤬 200 people & $40M to send 400 people to Guantanamo to torture them outside the US.
What a wonderful country - so proud. WTF I want to smack that smirk off that jerk's face.
No cuts! How about taxing the rich to pay their fair share. How about cutting salaries to the House and Senate politicians and how about cutting their benefits.
The problem with the Republicans is that the way to attack the debt is the exact opposite of what they want to do. The wealthy need to pay their share of taxes. They do not deserve nor need a tax cut.
How is it realistic that Elon Musk is getting more billion dollar subsidies whilst crucial programs are being cut? We have a literal rapist in the white house as the President of the US, anything is possible.
Remember that scene in Die Hard 3 where Bruce Willis realises all the tariff nonsense, immigrant bashing, hate speech for minorities and rants about coal and cars was all just to distract everyone from the massive heist from public spending to fund billionaire tax breaks and rampant insider trading?
These departments are crucial to those who rely on them. Fucking tax billionaires what they SHOULD be paying and don’t allow loopholes. Then cutting programs won’t even be a consideration.
Liars gonna lie. Didn’t the MAGATs say at Biden’s State of the Union that he was lying about them wanting to cut Social Security ? The lying MAGATs are sickening. If their lips are moving…..
Bitch cut your pay & health care. The most unqualified, unethical & incompetent administration & Republican party. Social security is not an entitlement, people worked for that money and Medicare. Hurting the most vulnerable by the party of family values. A big fu to you & your cronies
I'm imagining they sit in a circle with the talking Stick coming up with ideas on how to grift Social Security Medicare Medicaid poor people all people
Then don't give huge tax cuts to the wealthy! People will literally die without those programs. All so people who have more $$ than they can spend in a lifetime, have even more.
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'Adloff Hitler Collection of Speeches 1923-1945' per Trump's first wife was on his nightstand. One dated 4/10/1923 stated that economic policy needed a sword, compared democracy to a boil needing removal, racism, and people needed to "..hate, hate and once again hate."
It's what happens when people vote their racial resentment rather than their economic interests...
They wouldn't have to go to as high a rate as Clinton used, they could do a halfway point. There are many things that could be done that apparently will not be done.
Then tax the wealthy their fair share and voila...everything is solvent again and 🇺🇸 can pay down some debt.
BUT EVIL ALWAYS PLANTS THE SEEDS OF ITS OWN DESTRUCTION.
THERE WILL BE A RECKONING!
The ONLY way the maga party can reel in the deficit and balance the budget is by cutting OUR benefits and Medicaid.
The DEIA Working Class party is going to pay for the Oligarch class to play
Who do you need more, a doctor or a politician?
Who do you need more, a farmer or a politician?
Results should be front page news across the globe.
That is until they get sick.
Then they will see the truth .
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Making repercussions real for those making decisions for us is also what I'm saying here.
I agree. everything about this is disgusting.
It's going to cause a massive crash in the system with a shutdown of homes to care for the large boomer population and their kids working to death to survive that can't take them.
Just another impending disaster
Oh but then they probably wouldn’t funnel all that money into your greedy hands.
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Let's try that solution.
Oh, and end the Republican trickle down scam.
People who are already burning the candle at both ends to take care of their senior parents will come out in droves.
But truth of the matter, it was the tax cut that sealed the deal...
https://dccc.org/elon-musks-favorite-congressperson-mike-lawler/
https://bsky.app/profile/shamballa-warrior.bsky.social/post/3lmnd3ox6ks2z
Also...my dude...lose the chin-pelt you look like an asshole.
KEEP YOUR GD HANDS OFF MY SOCIAL SECURITY!!!!!!!!
We seniors have canes, and we know how to use them!
What a wonderful country - so proud. WTF I want to smack that smirk off that jerk's face.
Especially that LAST PART. ✋🏼💥
Paycheck for my 42 yrs of work, you greedy bastards take a pay cut!
Social Security, Medicare and the VA are the real enemies of 'the people'.
I hope all those 'enemies' are listening!
😒
#TaxTheChurches
Problem solved.
Leave our Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid alone!
Jerk!
https://youtu.be/LKPNDE-MwF4?si=KFU82QKd8DSRx8dg
These departments are crucial to those who rely on them. Fucking tax billionaires what they SHOULD be paying and don’t allow loopholes. Then cutting programs won’t even be a consideration.
Families know this. Sometimes you need to get a second job to make ends meet when your spending is more than your current income.
The wealthy have gotten a free ride for too long.
did they vote for this?
how does this makes their lives better?
I'm imagining they sit in a circle with the talking Stick coming up with ideas on how to grift Social Security Medicare Medicaid poor people all people