18 People Looking for a New Job
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 18:26 last edited by
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 21:58 last edited by jon-nyc
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I know this carries as much credibility as any other anonymous tip from the left or the right, but here you go:
wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 22:26 last edited by@89th said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
I know this carries as much credibility as any other anonymous tip from the left or the right, but here you go:
Good.
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 22:27 last edited by
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 22:34 last edited by
If any of y'all listen to David Webb, he had a parade of Congress Critters on this morning. They're currently working in Florida and the deficit hawks are flying. They've been told Social Security and Medicare are off the table, but to take a torch to any fat they can find. Wasteful programs, duplicate programs at separate agencies, layoffs, reallocation of resources, clawbacks of funds not spent...The goal is $2T/yr.
They won't get that. They're going to try, though.
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 23:42 last edited by jon-nyc 2 Mar 2025, 03:29
They have the smallest majority in the house in 96 years. The moderates will be the holdouts I suspect.
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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They have the smallest majority in the house in 96 years. The moderates will be the holdouts I suspect.
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 21:30 last edited by@jon-nyc said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
The House Budget Committee released its own plan on Wednesday that would add more than $3 trillion to the deficit over a decade while cutting $1.5 trillion in federal spending, much of it from health care and food programs for the poor. It also calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, and for raising the debt ceiling, the statutory cap on what the nation can borrow to finance its debt, by $4 trillion.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 21:31 last edited by jon-nyc 2 Dec 2025, 21:33
Analysts are saying the 4T increase in the debt limit in the house is planning 'should last us 2 years.
So here they are adding >10% to the national debt in just the first two years.
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They have the smallest majority in the house in 96 years. The moderates will be the holdouts I suspect.
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
wrote 20 days ago last edited by@jon-nyc said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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wrote 20 days ago last edited by
It's reassuring to see that some things about the GOP haven't changed.
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They have the smallest majority in the house in 96 years. The moderates will be the holdouts I suspect.
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
wrote 20 days ago last edited by@jon-nyc said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
Anyone disagree with that characterization for what the GOP does?
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wrote 20 days ago last edited by jon-nyc
Actually I do, even though I wrote it.
I forgot the word ‘partially’ before ‘fund’. I don’t want to pretend that they’re not increasing the deficit more than any other bill has in the entire history of the world. .
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wrote 20 days ago last edited by
It’s awfully difficult to cut much of anything from government without hurting the poor. Doesn’t make it any better but I think it’s true. That said, I don’t approve of doing it for tax cuts. Cut spending first, THEN talk about tax cuts. They’re trying to eliminate income tax in Ohio with the promise of energy production to offset it. Pie in the sky.
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It’s awfully difficult to cut much of anything from government without hurting the poor. Doesn’t make it any better but I think it’s true. That said, I don’t approve of doing it for tax cuts. Cut spending first, THEN talk about tax cuts. They’re trying to eliminate income tax in Ohio with the promise of energy production to offset it. Pie in the sky.
wrote 19 days ago last edited by@Mik said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
It’s awfully difficult to cut much of anything from government without hurting the poor. Doesn’t make it any better but I think it’s true.
I agree. A 10% decrease in spending ability will hurt someone making USD$10K/year vs. someone making USD$10MM/year.
For the second person, they may have to cut the hours of their upstairs maid, but life will pretty much go on as normal.
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wrote 19 days ago last edited by
Raising taxes on the rich won't adversely impact the poor as much.
