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To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class

www.propublica.org To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class

A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.

One GOP proposal takes aim squarely at parents raising children on their own by eliminating the “head of household” filing status to reap some $200B more in taxes over a decade from single parents and other adults caring for dependents on their own.

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So increase prices on the poor and then cut their benefits. Frankly, I'm here for it. Quickest way to turn your blue collar base against you is to make sure that they go hungry. Go on Trump. Give them a reason to write "Let them eat cake" in your blood.
- Are you kidding? They'll blame Biden.
  
  True, but at least they’ll suffer for it?
  At this point, I’ve largely embraced apathy:
  
  Agreed, fuck those dick heads.
  I hope their families starve because they're too uneducated to get a job.
  
  It's obviously all Obama's fault!
- More likely outcome - they'll use this to enrage the base, point them at POC, LGBTQ, non-xtians, liberals, etc...and promise them a pardon.
- Nah Faux News will instruct them to think it’s Obama’s fault somehow.
- You say this like they would turn on him. Don't underestimate their "I'd eat shit so libs would have to smell my breath" mentality.
- This might work if all major news networks and social media weren’t propaganda machines of the maga regime. The administration will blame immigrants or democrats or trans people for every hardship that republican voters experience.

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