Wave of Income Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis

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Originally published at: Wave of Income Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis - TPM – Talking Points Memo

This story first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive ProPublica’s biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry. With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks and President Donald Trump refusing…

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This story from TPM was shared on FB. The only comment listed at the time was, guess which States were in trouble?

Those States thought they were doing the right thing and it won’t even be close. The blame, of course, will always fall to the Dems, but that’s not the case at all.

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Since FDR the Federal Government has stepped in to make sure that all Americans have access to basically the same essential services, with some glaring exceptions. We all received the benefits of the CDC, Department of Education, Transportation Department and a number of other services that made America one nation. Trump and the Heritage Foundation have a fundamentally different view of America. It is every man and woman for his or her self.

Yesterday I saw an article about States (mostly blue) working together to overcome the gutting of the CDC. Now I am reading about Income Tax cuts leaving other states vulnerable to the Trump SNAP and Medicaid crisis. There are going ot be have states and have not states as America returns to pre civil war America. I wonder what returning to dirt roads in red states is going to do America. I can see the starving young children with dirty faces and ill fitting clothes in places like Missouri working in industries based on mining heaps right now. Where is Norman Rockwell when we need him.

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I wish I could edit this.