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The $11T gap between White House and economists on Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill
- zug_zug 1y agoIt's very rare that I see an article on a topic like this that seems to be succinct, not assume any existing knowledge, and make me leave feeling more informed in < 80 seconds. Maybe personal taste, but I love it.
- thomassmith65 1y agoIt's also one of the rare articles whose NYT-style scroll-hijacking is a benefit rather than a nuisance.
- pjc50 1y agoThis is about as close as mainstream journalism can get to saying "the President has made up the numbers".
- Taikonerd 1y agoThis makes me so mad. Not just that DOGE and friends cut all sorts of important programs. And not just that the savings were routed directly into tax cuts for the rich. I mean, yes, those things, but also the sheer disregard for the facts. "Those numbers make us look bad, so they're false. I can't provide you with any details, they're just wrong somehow. Don't worry about it."
- bentt 1y agoSo when things are grim in 2028 what’s the plan for the election? Blame Obama?
- dkkergoog 1y ago[dead]
- os2warpman 1y ago>what’s the plan for the election? Boogeyman. It's always a boogeyman. Recently, we've had transgendered people, antifa, DEI, migrants, and sleepy joe. As the acute impact wears off they switch to something else based on A-B testing of which generates the most fear. It'll be something, but what? Honestly my bet is on black people. They're going to go full-on racist. We'll probably see shit about phrenology, genetics, and degeneracy with the historically successful (to their target audience) descriptors of vermin and leeches. All of this bullshit to lower taxes for billionaires and enable their successionist libertarian microstate fantasies.
- krapp 1y agoIt's going to be all of the above and they'll probably start talking about AOC's kill list again.
- jfengel 1y agoThe remarkable part: it's going to work. It would have worked in 2020, too. It took a full-on global pandemic to stop it, and that only briefly. The formula works, and it keeps on working.
- Mobius01 1y agoIf we go by prior behavior, blame the Biden administration, blame our trading partners and allies (if we have any left by then), then democratic states, then immigrants, then minorities and the more vulnerable in society… eventually they may turn on their own escape goats. It’s hard to believe a superpower could self-sabotage so throughly.
- firejake308 1y agoWhite House doing girl math now. In the words of Two Minute Papers, what a time to be alive