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Most of the people I talk to seem to have one thing they are holding on to as the thing they'll get out of their vote. Like "he's going to eliminate the income
by russdill 2y ago
Most of the people I talk to seem to have one thing they are holding on to as the thing they'll get out of their vote. Like "he's going to eliminate the income taxes I pay on my social security" etc
The thing is almost never true, and even if he were is a horrible self centered justification.
- thrance 2y agoHe already passed tax cuts, but only for the wealthy. Literally reversed Robinhood.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> he already passed tax cuts, but only for the wealthy Well, they’re about to expire and their extension hasn’t been passed yet. But yes. I’m getting a tax cut while the farmers who voted for him get tariffed out of their export markets. Sort of wild.
- mexicocitinluez 2y agoThe next tax cuts are why they're going ham tryign to find things to cut because it's going to blow an enormous whole in the deficit.
- cloverich 2y agoWell technically the existing tax cuts already did blow a whole in the budget; its keeping them that's at play here. Its one of the reasons Trump was popular amongst his base - he cut taxes but didn't cut spending, so many people got a tax boost without any austerity. People can hand wave the spending as spurious Democrat led initiatives because there's no real discussion amongst the base about how to actually cover the tax losses. The actual choices are one of: cut medicaid, cut medicare, cut military, cut social security, raise taxes. Tariffs would technically work to if they result in higher prices, but then they seem equivalent to raising taxes (very generally) so not sure if its worth breaking out.
- mexicocitinluez 2y agoYea the existing ones extending is what I was referring to when I said "new" which obviously isn't the right word for extending existing ones.