Originally published at: Senate Republicans Propose Gutting Medicaid Further To Make Trump Tax Cuts Permanent
The Senate Finance Committee, which oversees changes made to taxes and social safety net programs like Medicare and Medicaid, dropped their portion of edits to House Republicans’ reconciliation package on Monday afternoon. Committee Republicans propose steeper cuts to certain programs, including Medicaid and the Child Tax Credit, in order to make President Donald Trump’s 2017…
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Right wing morons still do not get it that the tax breaks for billionaires IS. The. Problem! They have not earned it, they do not deserve it.
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Oh, they get it. That’s the point.
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And has anyone asked these vicious people about the deficit? All these cuts to social safety net programs are not going to pay for the tax cuts. Bastards.
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Can’t wait for those campaign ads when they all need reelecting. Too afraid of the demented felon, but not afraid at all of their constituents.
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This is the big opportunity for the MAGA fascists to kill off the poors and make billionaires richer, along with forcibly imposing a police state by tripling ICE funding.
This bill — along with the lawless Trump regime’s unilateral actions in a whole host of areas — is the coup d’grace to democracy. The U.S. would join Hungary, Turkey, and Russia as a failed democracy.
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If they ever get the chance again - and the ongoing rigging of the election systems may prevent that - the Democrats are going to have more work than ever to clean up the Republicans’ shit and try to set the country on a path forward.
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“The Senate proposal also keeps the House-passed proposal that would take eligibility for the Child Tax Credit away from children who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents if both of their parents lack a Social Security number.”
Trying to figure out what this is supposed to mean. They are taking the credit away from children (of the first part) who apply for the tax credit for their children (of the second part) if both parents of the children (of the first part) don’t have SSNs? How many people could this possibly affect?
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She looks like a character actor in some dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials.
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“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” ― Hubert H. Humphrey
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This is classic conman stuff. With one hand you make it look bad, promise compromise with the other, then use it to deliver even worse.
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Senate Republicans are making it clear they will march step with Killer Kennedy culling the herd of the elderly, disabled, diabetics and chronically ill.
They want who they consider “weak” to die off.
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There is going to be fewer revenues submitted and no IRS to chase them up.
I for one, am angry that my tax money no longer supports programs I believe in such as science and education. So max out those exemptions on your paycheck, whether they are legal or not. There is no IRS to force compliance.
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Au contraire! They will force compliance for us.
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At least they are aiming at their own base first…
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Why are we talking about giving the fat asshole “permanent tax cuts” when the fucking GOP is teasing the idea of ending basic constitutional protections like birthright citizenship and pretty much the entire First Amendment that have been around since 1865 and 1787? Can someone explain how the right can pass a law that lasts forever, while simultaneously gutting everything from Medicaid to USAID that Democrats put in place?
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In the Republican movie, the poor always die off-screen.
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