The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.
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wrote 21 days ago last edited by jon-nyc
It’s worth remembering that the GOP has a smaller majority in the house than any majority party since 1932.
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Medicaid already pays providers pretty much nothing. Not sure where they could cut. All they could do without a revolution is to change the nature of the program to block grants, which I think are already part of it. We're never going to get out of the hole without cuts AND tax increases.
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wrote 20 days ago last edited by
US gets its debt downgraded.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/moodys-downgrades-us-aa1-rating-2025-05-16/
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wrote 19 days ago last edited by
Reasonable, but also reasonable to sniff a political motivation. Would they have made this decision if Harris had been elected? Would they have had substantially different data, in that case, to base this decision on?
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Reasonable, but also reasonable to sniff a political motivation. Would they have made this decision if Harris had been elected? Would they have had substantially different data, in that case, to base this decision on?
wrote 19 days ago last edited by@Horace said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
Would they have made this decision if Harris had been elected? Would they have had substantially different data, in that case, to base this decision on?
Would Harris have made similar decisions regarding tariffs?
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@Horace said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
Would they have made this decision if Harris had been elected? Would they have had substantially different data, in that case, to base this decision on?
Would Harris have made similar decisions regarding tariffs?
wrote 19 days ago last edited by@Axtremus said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
@Horace said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
Would they have made this decision if Harris had been elected? Would they have had substantially different data, in that case, to base this decision on?
Would Harris have made similar decisions regarding tariffs?
Well, her entire career she has ran slightly to the left of Bernie, so yeah, probably.
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@Axtremus said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
@Horace said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
Would they have made this decision if Harris had been elected? Would they have had substantially different data, in that case, to base this decision on?
Would Harris have made similar decisions regarding tariffs?
Well, her entire career she has ran slightly to the left of Bernie, so yeah, probably.
wrote 19 days ago last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
@Axtremus said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
@Horace said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
Would they have made this decision if Harris had been elected? Would they have had substantially different data, in that case, to base this decision on?
Would Harris have made similar decisions regarding tariffs?
Well, her entire career she has ran slightly to the left of Bernie, so yeah, probably.
Ha, now I question whether you actually believe what you wrote.
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@LuFins-Dad said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
@Axtremus said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
@Horace said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
Would they have made this decision if Harris had been elected? Would they have had substantially different data, in that case, to base this decision on?
Would Harris have made similar decisions regarding tariffs?
Well, her entire career she has ran slightly to the left of Bernie, so yeah, probably.
Ha, now I question whether you actually believe what you wrote.
wrote 19 days ago last edited by@Axtremus said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
@LuFins-Dad said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
@Axtremus said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
@Horace said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
Would they have made this decision if Harris had been elected? Would they have had substantially different data, in that case, to base this decision on?
Would Harris have made similar decisions regarding tariffs?
Well, her entire career she has ran slightly to the left of Bernie, so yeah, probably.
Ha, now I question whether you actually believe what you wrote.
Good point. I actually believe she would be napping the afternoons away after her three Bloody Mary breakfasts and her handlers would be instituting the tariffs.
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wrote 19 days ago last edited by
The last downgrade was during the Obama administration
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Even in the minor details she is lying. "The economic council (of whatever) said this will save $1.6 trillion. That's the most ever... The next bill that has come close is $800 billion, which is less than half that of $1.6 trillion"
No, it is not less than half. It is exactly half.
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wrote 18 days ago last edited by
Even her lies are lies.
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wrote 18 days ago last edited by
Hahaha well said.
BTW for anyone keeping score, the estimate is this bill will, over the next 10 years, add between $3.8 to $5.3 trillion to the deficit.
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Oh and the "Council of Economic Advisers"... not a 3rd party independent audit firm. It's a group of people Trump hired over the last few months to basically nod their heads to him.
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wrote 18 days ago last edited by jon-nyc
"This tax bill's enormity is being underplayed," Manhattan Institute's Jessica Riedl says. "This tax bill will cost more than the 2017 tax cuts, the CARES Act, Biden's stimulus, and the Inflation Reduction Act combined.
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US gets its debt downgraded.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/moodys-downgrades-us-aa1-rating-2025-05-16/
wrote 15 days ago last edited by@jon-nyc said in The Big Beautiful Bill needs its own thread.:
US gets its debt downgraded.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/moodys-downgrades-us-aa1-rating-2025-05-16/
House GOP whistled past the downgrade and passed the Big Beautiful Bill anyway.
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