They all be just taken off the gravy train.
Get paid by the hour, buy there own healthcare, pay out of pocket for the right to live and spend your own damn money for transportation.
Any funds accumulated for any reason should be considered income and taxed accordingly.
The GOP doesn’t care if their budget balances. They’ll wait until Dems are in power before they scream about the deficit they created.
Wait, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this movie before.
Maybe we should give them what they want. Best read of the day, IMO:
God forbid those who used governmental services the most have to pay their fair share!
Considering that we are involved in two wars, I would consider returning to the tax rates of the early 50’s.
Best read of the day if you buy the premises that: we could have a de facto secession of blue states constitutionally, which is not possible; and the Democrats are moribund because of election losses.
Never fails - it’s going to be the fault of the “establishment” for those who think they know better than everyone else, no matter if the facts show definitively that the GOP has spent a lot of years and energy making it harder and harder for minorities to vote, and gerrymandering the election map to the point where Congress is almost frozen into place.
When it comes to bashing the Democratic Party, there are those on the left who just decide that things are the way they believe they are, not the way the facts show that they are.
This is one fucking country and there is no legal way to go back to the Articles of Confederation.
We fought a war that settled most of the questions about Federalism. We had another near civil war in the 1960s that settled the question further. This is one country and the states have to follow federal law and the constitution.
All that idea of states rights would do is turn the US into the Balkans and that is not a good thing.
I’m sure some of his oligrach pals will throw some money at the problem…for more “considerations”.
making politically painful cuts to a lengthy list of popular domestic
These cuts aren’t politically painful, they’re literally physically and mentally painful. People are going to suffer and it will be real, the GOP won’t feel any of that pain.
No but plenty of Trump voters will feel it.
Granted, he pushes the thesis too far, but I think you’re missing the underlying point. Maybe the only way to get back onto a reasonably progressive track is to give the red state voters a good, healthy dose of exactly what they voted for, and see how they like it. The blue staters, living in the true economic engines of the nation, can ride it out.
Edit: I’m reminded of what happened in Alabama and Georgia when those states decided to clamp down on “illegals.” They were quite successful, so successful, in fact, that when it came time to harvest the crops, there was no one there to do the work, and a lot of produce ended up rotting in the fields. We’re going to need some more of that kind of education, since pure reason clearly isn’t working.
I especially love the part of “The money has to come from somewhere” line that asks which is more important, entitlement programs or defending the country/border…
You’re slashing the Coast Guard’s budget by 14% numbnuts, We actively protect the country/border and you’re taking money from our already small budget to pay for a dumbass wall and tax cuts for the rich. How fucking dumb can you be?
I’m afraid we will all find out over the next four, long years.
The numbnuts in question was the republican nitwit you quoted.