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GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid

www.commondreams.org GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid | Common Dreams

"House Republican leadership put a giant bullseye on Medicaid, with the intent to strip Americans of their healthcare benefits to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations."

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3d ago

GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid

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‘Want to be slightly richer, while we speed run a revolution?’
- Hoarding a bunch of US dollars while giving everyone every incentive to disconnect from the US economy.
  It's like they think the economic world order is a law of nature.
  We could all stop using money today, and decide on a whole different system, and they'd have nothing again but our hatred.
  Keep pushing, morons.
  
  That's what I've been saying, just don't understand their end-game here, their wealth comes from the stock market and strength of the dollar, which both depend on US stability, but they're just absolutely nuking that. Do they still think they'll be fine when society at large crumbles around them? Sure, they can afford bunkers and shit, so they'll get by for a while longer (maybe) than everyone else, but then what? I just don't get it, they seriously seem to believe they can take a sledgehammer to the government of one of the largest economies in the world, and.......profit?!?!? Idiots, hope they burn.
  
  yeah at this point I'm not gonna be satisfied with "defeating them at the polls" and Bidening things up for a few years. There need to be real consequences here.
  
  You’re absolutely right. They really don’t understand that once they have all the money, people just switch to something else and everything they hoarded becomes worthless.
  
  The only real value is in our resources, labor, and manufacturing capability, and those will still be here.
  This is why I've always considered "capital flight" an empty threat. Let capital leave.... They've done more harm by staying and slowly moving all of our production capacity overseas.
  These idiots think destroying the systems will hurt us, they're so bought into their own bullshit. That's the silver lining in all this, we'll build back stronger.
- There will be no revolution.
  
  Revolution is inevitable. It’s a matter of when, not if.
  
  You should print this out on a Cricut and throw it up on Etsy as a digital product for a nice secondary passive income stream...
  
  That is because you are conflating the current climate, with the future climate. Trust that everything will continue to get worse for everyone and we are accelerating the decline. There is a limit to what people will take, to say otherwise is to ignore all of human history.
  
  I'm 43. I grew up poor in the south. I've been watching this happen my entire life. Those of you that think this can somehow be fixed, you're where I was 20 years ago. Talks of change and revolution and power in the hands of the people has been around for about as long as "we the people" have. We're to comfortable, by design, in our misery and outrage. We will not give up our meager comforts to show the people in power we're tired of it. The revolutionist mindset is fostered by the ruling class, knowing full well we're all too complacent, afraid and just comfortable with it all to challenge their rule.
  
  So you say we are just comfortable enough to allow it. Do you believe this system is maintaining a status quo of comfort? No everything is actively getting worse. If things are getting worse, then how will they maintain "just comfortable enough". Even if it was the case that we COULD maintain this minimum standard of comfort, do you believe those greedy cunts will be satisfied with that. No, they will still demand a bigger piece of the pie. So the system is bound to get worse, and eventually hardship will outweigh comfort.
  Your viewpoint is one of the lobster in the water slowly having the water turned up, you have seen a lifetime of no one caring that the water is getting hotter, so you can only assume it will carry on that way forever. My opinion is one of historical context, knowing that the temp will never stop rising, and eventually the water gets too hot and the lobsters climb out of the pot and attack. I'm not saying its coming soon, but it is coming, we are on that path.

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