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Andy Reed's avatar

You forgot to mention the additional impetus the Republicans, especially the billionaire, banker, and connected global, classes have in increasing the debt.

WHO FINANCES THIS $4 TRILLION IN NEW DEBT, and earns interest on those loans? Those same effing billionaires, bankers, and connected global investors from Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, and elsewhere who own the current $35 trillion in debt. THEY will collect interest every year to the tune of 8% to 10% of the $320 billion (the 8% of the budget).

That means that those corrupt crooks on the right will collect $32 billion every year for the duration of this budget -- unless Democrats

A) win the elections of 2026;

B) win the presidency and trifecta in 2028;

C) repudiate the entire budgetary philosophy of the right wing by re-instituting 50%, 75% and 90% marginal tax rates, as well as cutting the interest rate the nation will pay to 1% per annum, with all the debt held by the people -- so that interest payments will go into the treasury instead of Elon's and Peter Thiel's pockets.

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Rick Sjolin (AKA: BearGriz72)'s avatar

***ALL*OF*THIS***

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Evelyn Scolman Lemoine's avatar

Boy. This really nails it. They now have the gift that will keep on giving to limit the money that's available for programs that support the people. Despicable--and I'm sure right on plan for Vought.

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FeministAnger's avatar

Wait! I am so confused! He is a Christian!!!! wwwwwhhhhhhhahahahahaaa!!!!!

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foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

I'll always wonder why, when asked for a favorite Bible verse, Frumpy Stumpy Lumpy Dumpy Grumpy Trumpy could not even come up with The Golden Rule.

And apparently, not one of these "Christian" cultists of his even noticed. (Or cared...)

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FeministAnger's avatar

Christians keep proving atheists like myself correct.😂😂😂

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foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

FeministAnger,

I suspect you have more belief in a higher power than GAWD-DADDY and most of his cultists do.

Seeing as how HATE isn't all that much higher than shit, and hate seems to sum up their superpower.

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Tim Matchette's avatar

Right on.

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Murray Smart's avatar

AND they want Americans DEAD so they do NOT have to spend any money on them!!! That is why they turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to anyone saying do not do this!!! They WANT PEOPLE DEAD so they can shrink any obligation......NO PEOPLE = NO PAYMENTS TO MAKE. Plus - OVERWHELM the system FINANCIALLY so it CANNOT function and there you go - IT COLLAPSES and then it is GONE!!!! That is what they want to do to - Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security - DROWNED IT IN DEBT AND DRIVE IT OUT OF EXISTENCE!!! Russell Vought and Project 2025 are coming for everyone in America that is not them. So Americans have a choice to make: Russell Vought and the Goons and Thugs of Project 2025 OR the rest of us!!!!!!!! Russel Vought and ALL the Goons and Thugs behind Project 2025 MUST be dealt with and gotten rid of for good!!!!!!!!!

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Clarity…. LWest's avatar

Follow the money

Project 2025:

Heritage Foundation, Heritage Action Plan for America,, Project 2025, MAGA, American companies donors to far right ideology, BBB 2025, Russell VOUGHT, Kevin Roberts, STEPHEN Miller, January 6, 2021, insurrectionist, pardoned insurrectionist, America First Policy Institute, Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA, billionaires, corporations, greed, corruption, power, GOP.

Heritage foundation available in 32 languages, heritage action plan for America available in 31 languages, project 2025 available in 7 languages.

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David Clark's avatar

It really is amazing just how much the Reich hates us all. It is not enough for them to have most the money, they also want us to suffer. My entire life they have spent trying to destroy the Middle Class, not because the Middle Class is a threat to them but instead because they all look down on us. Trump falls right into this and always has. This is why he never pays anyone, I thinks he is above having to pay and for the most part, 76 million Americans have agreed with him. The USA recovered from the Great Depression and from WWII but the Reich is doing everything in their power to take us all right back threw that horror and for no other reason than they feel superior to the rest so ignorance and greed are running the show and have been for quite a while. Think back and remember just how Reagan kissed the asses of the Uber Rich while screwing all the rest of us. 10% unemployment didn't hurt the rich like it hurt us. Under Reagan the Reich tripled the National Debt. Anyone tells you he was a great president either wasn't there, was rich and got the huge tax cuts that hurt us all or is just simply a fool.

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Patricia Biswanger's avatar

Once again, we've been outsmarted.

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Cliff Schecter's avatar

Sadly, also out-invested, out-dedicated, out-worked & out-imagined

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Jane Davies's avatar

Is it true that the Big Bill passed Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors? A friend of mine received an email stating that.

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foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

True!

Historically BAD!

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Patricia Biswanger's avatar

All of us on Social Security got that email. It's not true. The only tax relief for seniors is an increase in the exemption from taxes for Social Security income.

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N Jackson's avatar

And the exemptions are only good until 2028. After that, not sure how the taxation on SSI will work since Social Security will be running out of funds to pay any SSI. Low income seniors do not pay taxes on SSI currently. And rich seniors don’t get the exemption but they will get other tax benefits.

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Allen BECK's avatar

Well if you haven’t bought a side arm and a long gun of the same calibre, you should because I think we’re headed for a civil war, and if the billionaires millionaires think we’re gonna be slaves, we’re gonna have to fight to prove them wrong. Looks like we are headed for a 21st century version of the Russian revolution.

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