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CW: Far too many GOP politicians care far more about having power than the welfare of our country. They are willing to vilify and lie outrageously to stupefy and isolate their base into having no choice but to support them.
Far too many GOP politicians care far more about having power than the welfare of our country. They are willing to vilify and lie outrageously to stupefy and isolate their base into having no choice but to support them. Their ideal of America is straight, white, fundamentalist, idolizes the rich and capitalism and is nothing like what our multi-ethnic/multi-cultural country is actually like. Is it that they will do anything to stay in power because they are power-hungry or that they fear they are losing the America they prize or that if they are not in power they can't serve their oligarchic masters as well and will be abandoned by them? Some combination of all of these and I'm even more suspect.
Nevertheless, too much of our press/media is failing us in their essential role as a pillar of our democracy. Some work for wealthy people who care more about owning media to control the narrative and the populace for their own advantage and oligarchic ideal of America. Others aren't taking their role as defenders and enablers of democracy seriously, aren't up for the task at hand or maybe are just conflict-averse.
Still, they have to do much better than bothsidesism and instead actually explain and contextualize the news so as to inform Americans about what is actually happening and how they are being consistently lied to and manipulated by the GOP and why. It's not easy, I'm sure, but working for the common good is much better than being part of the problem trying to undermine it.
Why Biden also pays a price for Republican extremism - The Washington Post No Paywall link
https://wapo.st/3qbOB6q#GOPLies
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#GOPIsPowerHungry
#GOPHatesDemocracy
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"Republicans might be damaging their long-term prospects with extremist tactics, but Democrats must confront an unhappy reality: The GOP’s merciless personal and ideological warfare, particularly in the House, is making it much harder for President Biden to sell his achievements.
The poisonous nature of our politics nurtures a sense of exhaustion with public life that works against any incumbent, especially one trying to convince voters that the government is making their lives better. As members of the party that believes in public action, Democrats are especially hurt by a mood of frustration and cynicism.
The ferocity of the GOP’s attacks on Biden also fuels public doubts about the president and affects media coverage, even when journalists carefully fact-check Republicans’ claims. A two-minute report on a congressional hearing will inevitably air whatever charges some right-wing committee chair makes. They lodge in memories no matter what might be said during those 120 seconds to debunk them.
Then there’s Biden’s signature promise to bring the parties together and end the chaos of the Trump years. The president’s problem: Bipartisanship is inherently a two-way street. One party can destroy the other side’s ability to achieve it simply by saying no. “The party in power pays a higher price for the other side’s obstructionism,” said Molly Murphy, a Democratic pollster, though she added that the GOP suffered from its extremism in the three elections since 2018 and would likely do so again next year.
One party can also sow chaos if it wishes. “Biden wants to be known as, and is, a force for stability,” said Geoff Garin, another Democratic pollster. “But when the news is dominated by nuttiness, it’s hard to see stability.”
Nothing would do more to throw Washington into turmoil than an impeachment fight against Biden. So it should surprise no one that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is floating the idea. Notice all the innuendo packed into two sentences he offered to reporters last week: “We continue to gather more information. We’re finding more and more.”
What information? McCarthy didn’t say. But he’ll be happy if voters imagine there must be something behind this assertion beyond pandering to his caucus’s most extreme members.
Biden has been struggling to boost his approval ratings ever since his polling numbers suffered a one-two punch from the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 and the inflation spike of 2022. Some polls early this year found most Democrats preferring he not seek reelection.
The GOP’s efforts to insert often unsupported accusations into the news cycle muddle Biden’s comeback campaign. “If you’re Biden, you have a really good story to tell,” Garin told me, “but it’s almost impossible to communicate effectively in this media environment.”
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CW: The GOPs insistence on reducing some of the increased IRS funding, doesn't reduce the deficit at all, it rather increases it substantially. But what it does do, which is why the GOP went after it, is reduce the likelihood that their obscenely wealthy donors will pay the taxes they routinely cheat our country out of. Typical GOP, do everything to help their obscenely wealthy donors while screwing everybody else!
Congress just cut IRS funding. It costs even more than we thought. - Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2023/irs-enforcement-costs-congress-funding/
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#GOPIsTheBitchOfTheRich"The White House and Congress recently agreed to claw back more than $20 billion earmarked for the Internal Revenue Service. This deal was, ostensibly, part of a grand bargain to reduce budget deficits.
Unfortunately, it’s likely to have the opposite effect. Every dollar available for auditing taxpayers generates many times that amount for government coffers — and the rate of return is especially astonishing for audits of the wealthiest Americans, according to new research shared exclusively with The Post.
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This means that while the upfront costs of auditing the wealthy are usually higher — perhaps suggesting these taxpayers aren’t worth going after — the average return on investment is much better.Another way to think about this: On average, the direct revenue collected from audits exceed costs by a factor of 2 to 1. But, that payoff varies by income. For money spent auditing the bottom half of taxpayers, the IRS only roughly broke even.
Meanwhile, the agency pulled in $3.18 for each dollar spent auditing the top 1 percent, and $6.29 for the top 0.1 percent.
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In the years after a taxpayer gets audited, they start paying much more in taxes voluntarily. Maybe, post-audit, they stop taking some dodgy deductions (counting a personal car as a business expense, for example). Or they start reporting income they had previously accepted off the books.
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These additional taxes equal about three times the revenue raised from the initial audit, on average, over the 14 years of data the researchers had access to. So in other words, the biggest returns from doing more audits come from deterrence effects.
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That multiplier — three times as much revenue from deterrence effects as from the initial audit — is relatively consistent across the income distribution, with both rich and poor adjusting their post-audit tax habits significantly. Which still means that in raw dollar terms auditing the rich has bigger payoffs.
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Consequences of the deal to claw back money from the IRS
So what do these numbers tell us about Congress’s decision to claw back money from the IRS? They suggest that existing projections for long-term costs likely underestimate the massive hole this policy will blow into federal budgets.
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Again, the authors instead find the opposite, that the long-term deterrence effects are huge, much larger than the upfront bounty that comes from the audits themselves.
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For every additional dollar spent auditing people in the top decile of the income distribution, the government can expect to get 12 times that amount back.Twelve! As any tax-dodging billionaire can attest: It’s pretty hard to beat that return on investment.
In other words: If the IRS spends more money on audits, and those resources actually target high earners, the payoff could be enormous — far greater than has usually been assumed.
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Audits of millionaires (and megacorporations) have dramatically declined in recent years, according to data from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.Certainly Republicans have fearmongered that the IRS will devote all its new money to deploying “armies” of gun-toting IRS agents to hound honest, middle-class taxpayers. So what evidence do we have that the agency will pursue higher-earning, higher-ROI tax-shirkers instead?
For one, President Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen and others have pledged to raise audit rates only on households earning more than $400,000 (which is close to the top percentile, in this study’s data). Two, the agency is now equipped with better information about how to spend its dollars most efficiently, thanks to this new research.
“The evidence suggests going after higher-income taxpayers has higher returns, and that’s reassuring given the recent policy focus on auditing wealthy individuals,” says Ben Sprung-Keyser, one of the study’s co-authors
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In any case, the revenue Congress just agreed to leave on the table by rescinding $20 billion from IRS’s long-term budget could be substantial. Based on that 12 to 1 multiplier found in this study for marginal returns from auditing high earners, that could mean Congress just gave up about $240 billion in revenue, for a net cost to the budget of $220 billion ($240 billion - $20 billion cut from IRS budget = $220 billion).So much for trying to reduce deficits."
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CW: Republicans Literally Laugh Off Idea of Taxing the Rich to Fix Budget The GOP couldn't care less about average Americans. They say they want to fix the debt, but really just want to stop any programs that don't benefit the wealthiest. Who has benefitted the most in the U.S. over the last few decades, the wealthiest. They can most afford additional taxes. Yet the GOP is not interested in even thinking about that.
The GOP couldn't care less about average Americans. They say they want to fix the debt, but really just want to stop any programs that don't benefit the wealthiest. Who has benefitted the most in the U.S. over the last few decades, the wealthiest. They can most afford additional taxes. Yet the GOP is not interested in even thinking about that.
Nothing could make it clearer that they are the party of the rich and don't govern for the country as a whole, but only for their obscenely wealthy donors. The obscenely wealthy and their puppets, the GOP, are all so selfish, no society could function for long if they were in charge or the majority. They are parasites who aren't even remotely interested in what is good for the majority of the country.
Republicans Literally Laugh Off Idea of Taxing the Rich to Fix Budget | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/post/172782/republicans-literally-laugh-off-idea-taxing-rich-fix-budget
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#GOPIsTheBitchOfTheRich"Republicans have said they want to reduce government spending and increase U.S. revenue—but not if it inconveniences rich people, apparently.
When a reporter asked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy if he would consider raising taxes on wealthy Americans, he answered with a short “No” before the question was even finished. Republicans standing around him groaned and shook their heads. They then began laughing when McCarthy asked where the reporter was earlier.
McCarthy explained that wealth taxes weren’t necessary because the United States has a revenue of 20 percent of gross domestic product, as opposed to 17 percent in previous years. Instead, inflation was due to the Democrats spending $6 trillion after winning the presidential election in 2020.
McCarthy’s statement about revenue is technically true: The U.S. revenues in 2022 totaled 19.6 percent of GDP, according to the Congressional Budget Office, compared to the annual average of 17.4 percent in the five decades prior. Most of that revenue comes from income taxes.
But raising taxes on the wealthy, even by a little bit, would produce huge amounts of revenue. In 2021, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders proposed charging billionaires a 3 percent wealth tax, and households and trusts worth between $50 million and $1 billion a tax of just 2 percent per year.
This would only apply to a tiny fraction of Americans, but it could produce about $3 trillion in revenue over the next decade, University of Berkeley economists predicted.
In his budget, President Joe Biden proposed increasing taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations and using the revenue to expand health care, childcare assistance, and housing aid. Not only have Republicans fought this plan, but their own budget proposes punishing lower-income Americans to benefit the wealthy.
Republicans’ solution to the debt ceiling crisis is focused on mere pennies in comparison to what a wealth tax would do. The bill calls for work requirements for Medicaid, food stamps, and cash assistance programs—which would barely make a dent in U.S. debt. Work requirements would save the government only about $1 billion per year, according to the CBO, nowhere near how much actually needs to be recouped. And that’s assuming, of course, that such requirements actually work.
The U.S. is just weeks away from defaulting on its debt, but Republicans and Democrats remain at a logjam over how to solve the problem. The GOP seems ready to take it out on the backs of people who can least afford it."
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CW: The GOP distracts their base and the public with culture war issues that the GOP and their obscenely wealthy donors couldn't care less about, so they can keep cutting taxes for the wealthy, gutting regulations for large businesses, making it harder to unionize, making American labor ever cheaper, making gun companies richer while mass shootings soar, and destroying our public education system. The GOP stands for enriching the wealthy at our expense!
Do Billionaires Really Give a Rat's Ass about "Woke" Issues? https://hartmannreport.com/p/do-billionaires-really-give-a-rats
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#GreedKillsDemocracy
#GreedKills"American billionaires and the corporations that made them rich share a couple of big concerns that are well-served by the GOP’s ongoing culture wars and their embrace of fascist behavior and ideology.
In fact, there’s an entire field of academic scholarship examining this dynamic: it’s called “Diversionary Warfare.”
Examples litter history, both ancient and modern.
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Viewing the massive funding of the GOP by fossil fuel and other billionaires through this lens of diversionary warfare brings a lot of seemingly disparate actions by these wealthy individuals and their corporations into clearer focus.By funding the culture wars to keep their wholly-owned politicians in power, they’re running out an ancient playbook.
Americans fight with each other over homosexuality and religion while the morbidly rich continue to rob the middle class by foisting the burden of income taxes on us (as they pay an average 3% income tax rate) and persist in polluting the planet with CO2 and cancer-causing chemicals.
Fossil-fuel industry support for Republicans’ campaigns, for example, have gone up around 800 percent since 1990 but stayed relatively flat for Democrats.
Why?
Because Republicans have been doing their job of keeping the American public distracted from the issues billionaires care about: not paying their taxes while continuing to poison our children and the planet.
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Even today, as global warming-fueled tornadoes wipe out huge swaths of Red-state America, those stories about billionaire and corporate abuse of Americans rarely last more than a day before being eclipsed by news about the latest new anti-abortion, anti-education, book banning, or anti-voting law.Fascist regimes have always been attractive to the morbidly rich and the industries they control.
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But even without America turning fully fascist — a goal that’s already been partly achieved in multiple Red states, but is still out of reach for all of America without another Republican presidency — big business and the morbidly rich benefit tremendously when Americans are at each other’s throats.And ever since 5 corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized the outright purchase of politicians by these same groups with Citizens United, each election comes to most closely resemble an auction rather than an exercise of the genuine will of the people.
America today stands on a precipice.
— Will we allow global warming to continue to kill our citizens and cost us taxpayers hundreds of billions in cleanup and repairs every year?
— Will we continue to let our teachers and government workers be intimidated by a small minority of bigots, nazis, and haters?
— Will we perpetuate the slaughter of our children in the face of the highest civilian gun ownership rates in the world?
— Will we keep young people chained to the debt they incurred just trying to get an education just so they, too, can partake in the American Dream?
— Will we let corporations block even more workers from the right to form and join unions?
— Will we force all American women, both Red- and Blue-state, into second-class status under the thumbs of male judges, legislators, bounty-hunting neighbors, and family members?
— Will we maintain policing systems that routinely murder people of color and protestors with only rare consequences?
— Will we look the other way while Republicans (and a handful of bought-off Democrats) work to gut Social Security, further privatize Medicare, and put onerous work and byzantine paperwork requirements on Medicaid?
— Will we go along with the construction of more for-profit prisons, for-profit schools, and the expansion of child labor?
Or will we work together to create a nation — and a world — that works for all?
Thanks to Republicans on the Supreme Court, billionaires and giant corporations can buy politicians and judges as often as they like. They can pour billions into campaigns and ballot initiatives. They can wine and dine Supreme Court justices on their mega-yachts while funding campaigns to replace public schools with vouchers for all-white Christian “academies.”
But they can’t yet buy your vote.
It’s still possible to push back against this fascistic takeover of America and reclaim the values that animated the creation of this nation: that all people are created with equal opportunity and equal status before the law."
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CW: The GOP doesn't care about average Americans or the poor, they only care about their wealthy donors. They don't care about the deficit either unless they can use it to cut programs for average Americans so they can give more tax breaks and less regulations to the obscenely wealthy. The GOP don't create economic conditions that generate wealth for most Americans, just for the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us. The GOP gives their base culture war issues but little else, yet the base doesn't seem to mind. Crazy! GOP’s Deficit Plan: Spoil the Rich, Starve the Kids
The GOP doesn't care about average Americans or the poor, they only care about their wealthy donors. They don't care about the deficit either unless they can use it to cut programs for average Americans so they can give more tax breaks and less regulations to the obscenely wealthy. The GOP don't create economic conditions that generate wealth for most Americans, just for the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us. The GOP gives their base culture war issues but little else, yet the base doesn't seem to mind. Crazy!
GOP’s Deficit Plan: Spoil the Rich, Starve the Kids https://www.thedailybeast.com/gops-deficit-plan-spoil-the-rich-starve-the-kids
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#GOPRTheToolsOfTheRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"Republicans are super-serious about fiscal responsibility. So they’re gutting food stamps and giving the ultra-rich more tax cuts.
I often criticize the modern GOP for its radicalized and weaponized cruelty. In the interest of being fair and balanced, let me pay them a rare pseudo-compliment. I grudgingly admire their relentless consistency around one issue which has the ability to unite both RINOs and MAGAs: They will never miss an opportunity to starve the poor in order to fatten and butter up the rich.
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Cosplaying as deficit hawks, the GOP seeks to gut SNAP, along with other popular government programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, under the guise of reducing America’s $31 trillion debt they helped create (and which they only show concern over when they’re out of the White House). It doesn’t take much to see through the GOP’s cheap spandex and mask to reveal they’re economic terrorists currently hijacking the debt ceiling, and thereby potentially harming the global economy, just so they can cut popular welfare programs to give tax cuts to the wealthiest one percent.
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Enter poor families and their children. They have always served as reliable tributes, rarely missed and easily forgotten. The expansion of SNAP benefits, one of the last standing COVID relief programs, serves as a lifeboat for these impoverished Americans who are barely surviving in a difficult economy with low wages, inflation, the lingering damages wrought by a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.According to a report from the nonprofit research group, the Urban Institute, SNAP benefits kept 4.2 million people out of poverty and reduced poverty rates for children by 14 percent in the final quarter of 2021. The expanded benefits have already ended in 18 states, negatively affecting nine million people.
In an email to Axios, Moody’s economist Mark Zandi wrote that SNAP benefits have an overall positive impact on the economy, because they give money to families to buy groceries, and cutting them will have only a marginal impact on inflation. Specifically, “every $1 spent on SNAP currently generates about $1.42 in GDP.
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Surely, the GOP can find something else to trim so our children can eat bread?Perhaps a small little tuck from the defense budget is in order, considering the U.S. has the world’s most awesome and expansive military? Nope. Last year, Congress passed an $858 billion bill and increased the defense budget by 8 percent.
The “pro-life-as-long-as-you’re-in-the womb” GOP cares little for child poverty and homelessness, insisting that poor kids should pull themselves from their BabyBjorn bootstraps and stop whining and asking for “handouts,” such as the Child Tax Credit, which temporarily helped reduce the child poverty rate by 12 percent until it was iced by Republicans and moderate (obstructionist) Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.
These supposed GOP “deficit hawks,” under the leadership of the spineless House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, are allegedly so zealous about “balancing the budget” that they have no problem adding $3 trillion to the deficit to reward their gilded and privileged donor base—whose wealth has, historically, never “trickled down” but instead stayed at the top for the 1 percent.
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This utter contempt for the poor is a feature, not a bug, of the GOP which also proclaims itself to be the party of God and uses Jesus as a gun-toting, white nationalist mascot instead of actually following his example of feeding the poor and helping the sick." -
CW: Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans. "The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare." White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt
Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans.
"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare."
White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/white-house-the-gops-current-agenda-would-add-3-trillion-to-national-debt/
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#FascistsRTheToolOfTheRich"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare.
The White House is going after congressional Republicans for their current agenda, which the Biden administration says would add trillions of dollars to the national debt while making life materially worse for the American public.
In a fact sheet released on Wednesday, the White House highlighted four different recently proposed Republican policies that, if passed, would collectively add over $3 trillion to the national debt.
“Congressional Republican leaders insist that the national debt is among our nation’s greatest challenges, and reducing it is among their highest priorities. In fact, they claim that reducing the debt is so urgent it warrants endangering the entire U.S. economy through debt limit brinksmanship,” White House officials wrote. “But their legislative agenda to date points in a very different direction — with proposals that would increase the debt by over $3 trillion.”
President Joe Biden is expected to highlight the GOP proposals in a speech on the economy to Maryland union workers on Wednesday.
“If you add up all the proposals that my Republican friends in Congress have offered so far, they would add another $3 trillion to the debt over 10 years,” he is expected to say, per the Associated Press.
The messaging calls into question the sincerity of Republicans who often become deficit hawks under Democratic presidents, while completely disregarding the national debt under Republican leadership. In reality, as the White House points out, Republicans don’t care about the deficit — they care about slashing anti-poverty welfare programs and preventing the government from making the lives of working-class Americans materially easier.
Officials highlighted conservative advocates’ own words in making this argument.
“Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, exposed the political logic of Congressional Republicans’ fiscal hypocrisy. He told Republicans their focus should be ‘not the deficit’ after all: it’s to shift public discussion to cutting spending, paving the way for more tax cuts for the wealthy,” the White House wrote.
“That trickle-down economic theory has never worked. President Trump and President [George W.] Bush’s tax cuts added trillions to the debt and failed to deliver their promised benefits for the economy or American workers,” the fact sheet goes on to say. “And taking revenues — and even savings from cutting corporate subsidies — off the table means Congressional Republicans consistently propose deep cuts to programs seniors and middle-class and working families count on...”
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CW: Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans. "The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare." White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt
Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans.
"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare."
White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/white-house-the-gops-current-agenda-would-add-3-trillion-to-national-debt/
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPIsTheToolOfTheRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#FascistsRTheToolOfTheRich"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare.
The White House is going after congressional Republicans for their current agenda, which the Biden administration says would add trillions of dollars to the national debt while making life materially worse for the American public.
In a fact sheet released on Wednesday, the White House highlighted four different recently proposed Republican policies that, if passed, would collectively add over $3 trillion to the national debt.
“Congressional Republican leaders insist that the national debt is among our nation’s greatest challenges, and reducing it is among their highest priorities. In fact, they claim that reducing the debt is so urgent it warrants endangering the entire U.S. economy through debt limit brinksmanship,” White House officials wrote. “But their legislative agenda to date points in a very different direction — with proposals that would increase the debt by over $3 trillion.”
President Joe Biden is expected to highlight the GOP proposals in a speech on the economy to Maryland union workers on Wednesday.
“If you add up all the proposals that my Republican friends in Congress have offered so far, they would add another $3 trillion to the debt over 10 years,” he is expected to say, per the Associated Press.
The messaging calls into question the sincerity of Republicans who often become deficit hawks under Democratic presidents, while completely disregarding the national debt under Republican leadership. In reality, as the White House points out, Republicans don’t care about the deficit — they care about slashing anti-poverty welfare programs and preventing the government from making the lives of working-class Americans materially easier.
Officials highlighted conservative advocates’ own words in making this argument.
“Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, exposed the political logic of Congressional Republicans’ fiscal hypocrisy. He told Republicans their focus should be ‘not the deficit’ after all: it’s to shift public discussion to cutting spending, paving the way for more tax cuts for the wealthy,” the White House wrote.
“That trickle-down economic theory has never worked. President Trump and President [George W.] Bush’s tax cuts added trillions to the debt and failed to deliver their promised benefits for the economy or American workers,” the fact sheet goes on to say. “And taking revenues — and even savings from cutting corporate subsidies — off the table means Congressional Republicans consistently propose deep cuts to programs seniors and middle-class and working families count on...”
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CW: Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans. "The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare." White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt
Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans.
"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare."
White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/white-house-the-gops-current-agenda-would-add-3-trillion-to-national-debt/
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPIsTheToolOfTheRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#FascistsRTheToolOfTheRich"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare.
The White House is going after congressional Republicans for their current agenda, which the Biden administration says would add trillions of dollars to the national debt while making life materially worse for the American public.
In a fact sheet released on Wednesday, the White House highlighted four different recently proposed Republican policies that, if passed, would collectively add over $3 trillion to the national debt.
“Congressional Republican leaders insist that the national debt is among our nation’s greatest challenges, and reducing it is among their highest priorities. In fact, they claim that reducing the debt is so urgent it warrants endangering the entire U.S. economy through debt limit brinksmanship,” White House officials wrote. “But their legislative agenda to date points in a very different direction — with proposals that would increase the debt by over $3 trillion.”
President Joe Biden is expected to highlight the GOP proposals in a speech on the economy to Maryland union workers on Wednesday.
“If you add up all the proposals that my Republican friends in Congress have offered so far, they would add another $3 trillion to the debt over 10 years,” he is expected to say, per the Associated Press.
The messaging calls into question the sincerity of Republicans who often become deficit hawks under Democratic presidents, while completely disregarding the national debt under Republican leadership. In reality, as the White House points out, Republicans don’t care about the deficit — they care about slashing anti-poverty welfare programs and preventing the government from making the lives of working-class Americans materially easier.
Officials highlighted conservative advocates’ own words in making this argument.
“Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, exposed the political logic of Congressional Republicans’ fiscal hypocrisy. He told Republicans their focus should be ‘not the deficit’ after all: it’s to shift public discussion to cutting spending, paving the way for more tax cuts for the wealthy,” the White House wrote.
“That trickle-down economic theory has never worked. President Trump and President [George W.] Bush’s tax cuts added trillions to the debt and failed to deliver their promised benefits for the economy or American workers,” the fact sheet goes on to say. “And taking revenues — and even savings from cutting corporate subsidies — off the table means Congressional Republicans consistently propose deep cuts to programs seniors and middle-class and working families count on...”
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CW: Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans. "The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare." White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt
Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans.
"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare."
White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/white-house-the-gops-current-agenda-would-add-3-trillion-to-national-debt/
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPIsTheToolOfTheRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#FascistsRTheToolOfTheRich"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare.
The White House is going after congressional Republicans for their current agenda, which the Biden administration says would add trillions of dollars to the national debt while making life materially worse for the American public.
In a fact sheet released on Wednesday, the White House highlighted four different recently proposed Republican policies that, if passed, would collectively add over $3 trillion to the national debt.
“Congressional Republican leaders insist that the national debt is among our nation’s greatest challenges, and reducing it is among their highest priorities. In fact, they claim that reducing the debt is so urgent it warrants endangering the entire U.S. economy through debt limit brinksmanship,” White House officials wrote. “But their legislative agenda to date points in a very different direction — with proposals that would increase the debt by over $3 trillion.”
President Joe Biden is expected to highlight the GOP proposals in a speech on the economy to Maryland union workers on Wednesday.
“If you add up all the proposals that my Republican friends in Congress have offered so far, they would add another $3 trillion to the debt over 10 years,” he is expected to say, per the Associated Press.
The messaging calls into question the sincerity of Republicans who often become deficit hawks under Democratic presidents, while completely disregarding the national debt under Republican leadership. In reality, as the White House points out, Republicans don’t care about the deficit — they care about slashing anti-poverty welfare programs and preventing the government from making the lives of working-class Americans materially easier.
Officials highlighted conservative advocates’ own words in making this argument.
“Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, exposed the political logic of Congressional Republicans’ fiscal hypocrisy. He told Republicans their focus should be ‘not the deficit’ after all: it’s to shift public discussion to cutting spending, paving the way for more tax cuts for the wealthy,” the White House wrote.
“That trickle-down economic theory has never worked. President Trump and President [George W.] Bush’s tax cuts added trillions to the debt and failed to deliver their promised benefits for the economy or American workers,” the fact sheet goes on to say. “And taking revenues — and even savings from cutting corporate subsidies — off the table means Congressional Republicans consistently propose deep cuts to programs seniors and middle-class and working families count on...”
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CW: Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans. "The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare." White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt
Anyone paying attention knows the GOP doesn't care about the national debt. It balloons under virtually every GOP administration, and they only care when Democrats are in office trying to enact policies that benefit working Americans. The GOP only wants policies that benefit the obscenely wealthy and despises any policies that help average Americans.
"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare."
White House: The GOP’s Current Agenda Would Add $3 Trillion to National Debt - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/white-house-the-gops-current-agenda-would-add-3-trillion-to-national-debt/
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#GOPIsTheToolOfTheRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#FascistsRTheToolOfTheRich"The administration says the GOP doesn’t actually care about the national debt, but rather wants to slash welfare.
The White House is going after congressional Republicans for their current agenda, which the Biden administration says would add trillions of dollars to the national debt while making life materially worse for the American public.
In a fact sheet released on Wednesday, the White House highlighted four different recently proposed Republican policies that, if passed, would collectively add over $3 trillion to the national debt.
“Congressional Republican leaders insist that the national debt is among our nation’s greatest challenges, and reducing it is among their highest priorities. In fact, they claim that reducing the debt is so urgent it warrants endangering the entire U.S. economy through debt limit brinksmanship,” White House officials wrote. “But their legislative agenda to date points in a very different direction — with proposals that would increase the debt by over $3 trillion.”
President Joe Biden is expected to highlight the GOP proposals in a speech on the economy to Maryland union workers on Wednesday.
“If you add up all the proposals that my Republican friends in Congress have offered so far, they would add another $3 trillion to the debt over 10 years,” he is expected to say, per the Associated Press.
The messaging calls into question the sincerity of Republicans who often become deficit hawks under Democratic presidents, while completely disregarding the national debt under Republican leadership. In reality, as the White House points out, Republicans don’t care about the deficit — they care about slashing anti-poverty welfare programs and preventing the government from making the lives of working-class Americans materially easier.
Officials highlighted conservative advocates’ own words in making this argument.
“Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, exposed the political logic of Congressional Republicans’ fiscal hypocrisy. He told Republicans their focus should be ‘not the deficit’ after all: it’s to shift public discussion to cutting spending, paving the way for more tax cuts for the wealthy,” the White House wrote.
“That trickle-down economic theory has never worked. President Trump and President [George W.] Bush’s tax cuts added trillions to the debt and failed to deliver their promised benefits for the economy or American workers,” the fact sheet goes on to say. “And taking revenues — and even savings from cutting corporate subsidies — off the table means Congressional Republicans consistently propose deep cuts to programs seniors and middle-class and working families count on...”
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CW: This is what a rigged economy looks like The Rich have used their stooges, the GOP, to rig the economy in their favor. The rest of us have paid the price! Yet too many GOP voters are oblivious to this.
The Rich have used their stooges, the GOP, to rig the economy in their favor. The rest of us have paid the price! Yet too many GOP voters are oblivious to this.
From a tweet by:
Fifty Shades of Whey
@davenewworld_2This is what a rigged economy looks like
#Greed
#GreedKills
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CW: Are you sure you're a Republican? Great YouTube video from PoliticsGirl. Give it a watch, you wont be sorry!
Are you sure you're a Republican? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/5/2151206/-Are-you-sure-you-re-a-Republican
#GOPHatesDemocracy
#GOPLovesPower
#GOPIsTheToolOfTheRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericansGreat YouTube video from PoliticsGirl. Give it a watch, you wont be sorry!
The YouTube Video to watch:
https://youtu.be/1-WiPx2M2wgBy: @iampoliticsgirl
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CW: It's like I'm beating a dead horse yet the GOP won't stop sucking up to the obscenely wealthy and doing their bidding. They both hate working Americans and want them to suffer. They can't stand social security, medicare, SNAP, student loan forgiveness, Medicare expansion or unemployment benefits. The wealthy want bailouts, regulations rolled back, zero taxes, refunds and social welfare but don't want anything to go to the rest of us. Their quest for ever more money, possessions, power and esteem has left them hollowed out internally, resentful, hateful and cruel. They have become parasites that suck the vital juices out of our economy so that there is little left for the rest of us who are the ones that are generating all the productivity and wealth that they hoover up. Inequality has left them callous, uncaring, hateful and heartless and the GOP is happy to be their lap dog for scraps. 'Republicans keep saying the quiet part out loud': Pence calls for privatizing Social Security
It's like I'm beating a dead horse yet the GOP won't stop sucking up to the obscenely wealthy and doing their bidding. They both hate working Americans and want them to suffer. They can't stand social security, medicare, SNAP, student loan forgiveness, Medicare expansion or unemployment benefits. The wealthy want bailouts, regulations rolled back, zero taxes, refunds and social welfare but don't want anything to go to the rest of us. Their quest for ever more money, possessions, power and esteem has left them hollowed out internally, resentful, hateful and cruel. They have become parasites that suck the vital juices out of our economy so that there is little left for the rest of us who are the ones that are generating all the productivity and wealth that they hoover up. Inequality has left them callous, uncaring, hateful and heartless and the GOP is happy to be their lap dog for scraps.
'Republicans keep saying the quiet part out loud': Pence calls for privatizing Social Security - Alternet.org https://www.alternet.org/economy/gop-2659378942/
#GOPRTools4TheRich
#TheRichHateAvgAmericans
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#TheRichRParasites
#Socialism4MeAndCapitalism4Thee
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"Experts have forcefully rejected the notion that private savings accounts of the kind Pence endorsed—which would allow workers to divert a portion of their payroll tax contributions into private investment accounts—would be more beneficial than Social Security's guaranteed benefits, as the former vice president suggested.
"The popular argument that Social Security privatization would provide higher returns for all current and future workers is misleading, because it ignores transition costs and differences across programs in the allocation of aggregate and household risk," Olivia Mitchell, John Geanakopolos, and Stephen Zeldes—economists sympathetic to the idea of privatization—wrote in a 2000 paper.
Experts have also said private accounts would not, as Pence put it, "save the government money."
In 2005, analysts with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) estimated that a privatization plan put forth by former Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.) and former Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) would "create $85.8 trillion in additional debt (equal to 93.7% of GDP) by 2050" while not boosting Social Security's long-term solvency—something Republicans claim they want to do.
"Creation of a system of private accounts would not change the amount of revenue coming into the federal government, but it would increase government spending, because the federal government would be making regular payments into the private accounts," the CBPP analysts explained. "These payments would represent new government spending. This increase in spending, unaccompanied by an increase in revenues, would widen annual deficits."
Despite the myriad drawbacks of private accounts as a partial or full-scale alternative to Social Security, Republicans have continued to promote them.
Last year, the Republican Study Committee—a panel that Pence chaired during the Bush administration—released a budget proposal that urged lawmakers to "consider legislative options that allow employers and employees to reduce their payroll tax liability and use those savings to invest in private retirement options."
Pence's remarks Thursday came as the White House and House Republicans are locked in a high-stakes standoff over the debt ceiling, which the GOP does not want to raise without also inflicting steep cuts to federal spending.
As part of their sweeping austerity push, House Republicans have suggested raising the retirement age, which would cut Social Security benefits across the board.
"Republicans keeping saying the quiet part out loud: They want to cut and privatize Social Security and take away our young people's futures," Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, tweeted late Saturday. "Democrats will never let this happen.""
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CW: The GOP tries to scare Americans with their talk about socialism, like its worse than fascism, which it isn't. So many things we count on each day are socialist. Our country wouldn't work with out socialism--where would the roads be, or the firemen, or the food inspectors, or the public transit or the water, or the sewage systems or the schools or the regulations that keep companies from poisoning us or robbing us? Rich people hate socialism because they have to contribute to the society that they exploit to get rich. The average person needs social services/socialism to live. Don't buy into the GOP and their obscenely wealthy donors B.S. about socialism. They've been lying about this for decades now and their base keeps buying it! When Republicans rant about ‘socialism,’ remember the Affordable Care Act
The GOP tries to scare Americans with their talk about socialism, like its worse than fascism, which it isn't. So many things we count on each day are socialist. Our country wouldn't work with out socialism--where would the roads be, or the firemen, or the food inspectors, or the public transit or the water, or the sewage systems or the schools or the regulations that keep companies from poisoning us or robbing us? Rich people hate socialism because they have to contribute to the society that they exploit to get rich. The average person needs social services/socialism to live. Don't buy into the GOP and their obscenely wealthy donors B.S. about socialism. They've been lying about this for decades now and their base keeps buying it!
When Republicans rant about ‘socialism,’ remember the Affordable Care Act
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/05/aca-health-insurance-coverage-republicans-socialism/#GOPInBedWithTheRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#TheRichHateAvgAmericans
#Socialism4MeCapitalism4Thee“All of this amounts to a historic achievement. Not only did the ACA survive multiple attempts by Republicans to repeal the law and reduce outreach, but it also managed to drive down uninsured rate to a record low of 8 percent last year. That’s in large part because of the Biden administration’s competent management of the program and extension of subsidies over united GOP opposition.
The next time Republicans rant about “socialism,” Democrats should remind them and all Americans about the Affordable Care Act. For years, Republicans denounced the law as “socialist,” yet red-state Americans have been using it at higher rates than blue-state residents. Watch red-state Americans similarly benefit from other government programs that Republican politicians whine about, such as government price controls on prescription drugs and subsidies to help transition to green energy.
Indeed, Democrats should highlight their successes where Republicans have fought against expanding access to health care. Florida, for example, has refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA, leading to its 12 percent uninsured rate.
And that’s about to get even worse: Once the federal government’s covid-19 national emergency ends, so too will pandemic-era policies designed to keep people enrolled in Medicaid continuously. So unless governors act, more people will lose Medicaid coverage. While other governors are scrambling to minimize coverage losses, Florida’s Ron DeSantis has a plan that could kick as many as 1.75 million residents off Medicaid. No wonder DeSantis wants to talk about “wokeism”; his actual record on issues people care most about is putrid.
The lesson of the ACA is clear: With competent leaders, government policies can help Americans. As Republicans vote against these measures and scream “socialism!” — all while claiming the banner of economic populism — Democrats would do well to remind the country which party actually helps ordinary people.”
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CW: "House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?" "It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added." White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2023/02/05/says-bill-would-force-one-of-the-biggest-medicare-benefit-cuts-in-us-history_partner/
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"The White House on Saturday condemned a newly introduced Republican bill that would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that includes a number of changes aimed at lowering costs for Medicare recipients.
Unveiled Thursday by freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), the bill has 20 original co-sponsors and is endorsed by several right-wing groups, including the Koch-funded organization Americans for Prosperity.
The Biden White House argued that rolling back the Inflation Reduction Act, which also contains major climate investments, would represent "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts in American history" as well as a "handout to Big Pharma." According to Politico, which first reported the White House's response to the GOP bill, the administration is planning to release "state-by-state data indicating how this would affect constituents in different areas."
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
The Inflation Reduction Act authorized a $35-per-month cap on insulin copayments for Medicare recipients, as well as an annual $2,000 total limit on out-of-pocket drug costs.
The bill will also, among other long-overdue changes, allow Medicare to begin negotiating the prices of a subset of the most expensive prescription drugs directly with pharmaceutical companies, which fiercely opposed the law and are working with Republicans to sabotage it. The newly negotiated prices are set to take effect in 2026.
Ogles, whose two-page bill would eliminate the above reforms, repeatedly attacked Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs and protections during his 2022 campaign for the U.S. House.
The White House's critique of Ogles' bill comes as Biden is facing pressure from advocates and physicians to cancel a Medicare privatization scheme that his administration inherited from its right-wing predecessor and rebranded.
It also comes as the White House is locked in a standoff with House Republicans over the debt ceiling. Republican lawmakers have pushed for deeply unpopular cuts to Medicare, Social Security, and other critical federal programs as a necessary condition for any deal to raise the country's borrowing limit and avert a catastrophic default.
"In less than a month, MAGA extremists have threatened to drive the economy into a recession by defaulting on our debt, promised to bring up a bill to impose a 30% national sales tax, and now have introduced legislation to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act," Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Democratic Party-aligned Center for American Progress said in a statement. "This will cut taxes for corporations who earn billions in profit while empowering Big Pharma and Big Oil to continue ripping off the American people."
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
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CW: "House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?" "It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added." White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2023/02/05/says-bill-would-force-one-of-the-biggest-medicare-benefit-cuts-in-us-history_partner/
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"The White House on Saturday condemned a newly introduced Republican bill that would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that includes a number of changes aimed at lowering costs for Medicare recipients.
Unveiled Thursday by freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), the bill has 20 original co-sponsors and is endorsed by several right-wing groups, including the Koch-funded organization Americans for Prosperity.
The Biden White House argued that rolling back the Inflation Reduction Act, which also contains major climate investments, would represent "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts in American history" as well as a "handout to Big Pharma." According to Politico, which first reported the White House's response to the GOP bill, the administration is planning to release "state-by-state data indicating how this would affect constituents in different areas."
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
The Inflation Reduction Act authorized a $35-per-month cap on insulin copayments for Medicare recipients, as well as an annual $2,000 total limit on out-of-pocket drug costs.
The bill will also, among other long-overdue changes, allow Medicare to begin negotiating the prices of a subset of the most expensive prescription drugs directly with pharmaceutical companies, which fiercely opposed the law and are working with Republicans to sabotage it. The newly negotiated prices are set to take effect in 2026.
Ogles, whose two-page bill would eliminate the above reforms, repeatedly attacked Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs and protections during his 2022 campaign for the U.S. House.
The White House's critique of Ogles' bill comes as Biden is facing pressure from advocates and physicians to cancel a Medicare privatization scheme that his administration inherited from its right-wing predecessor and rebranded.
It also comes as the White House is locked in a standoff with House Republicans over the debt ceiling. Republican lawmakers have pushed for deeply unpopular cuts to Medicare, Social Security, and other critical federal programs as a necessary condition for any deal to raise the country's borrowing limit and avert a catastrophic default.
"In less than a month, MAGA extremists have threatened to drive the economy into a recession by defaulting on our debt, promised to bring up a bill to impose a 30% national sales tax, and now have introduced legislation to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act," Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Democratic Party-aligned Center for American Progress said in a statement. "This will cut taxes for corporations who earn billions in profit while empowering Big Pharma and Big Oil to continue ripping off the American people."
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
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CW: "House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?" "It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added." White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2023/02/05/says-bill-would-force-one-of-the-biggest-medicare-benefit-cuts-in-us-history_partner/
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"The White House on Saturday condemned a newly introduced Republican bill that would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that includes a number of changes aimed at lowering costs for Medicare recipients.
Unveiled Thursday by freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), the bill has 20 original co-sponsors and is endorsed by several right-wing groups, including the Koch-funded organization Americans for Prosperity.
The Biden White House argued that rolling back the Inflation Reduction Act, which also contains major climate investments, would represent "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts in American history" as well as a "handout to Big Pharma." According to Politico, which first reported the White House's response to the GOP bill, the administration is planning to release "state-by-state data indicating how this would affect constituents in different areas."
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
The Inflation Reduction Act authorized a $35-per-month cap on insulin copayments for Medicare recipients, as well as an annual $2,000 total limit on out-of-pocket drug costs.
The bill will also, among other long-overdue changes, allow Medicare to begin negotiating the prices of a subset of the most expensive prescription drugs directly with pharmaceutical companies, which fiercely opposed the law and are working with Republicans to sabotage it. The newly negotiated prices are set to take effect in 2026.
Ogles, whose two-page bill would eliminate the above reforms, repeatedly attacked Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs and protections during his 2022 campaign for the U.S. House.
The White House's critique of Ogles' bill comes as Biden is facing pressure from advocates and physicians to cancel a Medicare privatization scheme that his administration inherited from its right-wing predecessor and rebranded.
It also comes as the White House is locked in a standoff with House Republicans over the debt ceiling. Republican lawmakers have pushed for deeply unpopular cuts to Medicare, Social Security, and other critical federal programs as a necessary condition for any deal to raise the country's borrowing limit and avert a catastrophic default.
"In less than a month, MAGA extremists have threatened to drive the economy into a recession by defaulting on our debt, promised to bring up a bill to impose a 30% national sales tax, and now have introduced legislation to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act," Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Democratic Party-aligned Center for American Progress said in a statement. "This will cut taxes for corporations who earn billions in profit while empowering Big Pharma and Big Oil to continue ripping off the American people."
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
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CW: "House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?" "It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added." White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2023/02/05/says-bill-would-force-one-of-the-biggest-medicare-benefit-cuts-in-us-history_partner/
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"The White House on Saturday condemned a newly introduced Republican bill that would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that includes a number of changes aimed at lowering costs for Medicare recipients.
Unveiled Thursday by freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), the bill has 20 original co-sponsors and is endorsed by several right-wing groups, including the Koch-funded organization Americans for Prosperity.
The Biden White House argued that rolling back the Inflation Reduction Act, which also contains major climate investments, would represent "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts in American history" as well as a "handout to Big Pharma." According to Politico, which first reported the White House's response to the GOP bill, the administration is planning to release "state-by-state data indicating how this would affect constituents in different areas."
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
The Inflation Reduction Act authorized a $35-per-month cap on insulin copayments for Medicare recipients, as well as an annual $2,000 total limit on out-of-pocket drug costs.
The bill will also, among other long-overdue changes, allow Medicare to begin negotiating the prices of a subset of the most expensive prescription drugs directly with pharmaceutical companies, which fiercely opposed the law and are working with Republicans to sabotage it. The newly negotiated prices are set to take effect in 2026.
Ogles, whose two-page bill would eliminate the above reforms, repeatedly attacked Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs and protections during his 2022 campaign for the U.S. House.
The White House's critique of Ogles' bill comes as Biden is facing pressure from advocates and physicians to cancel a Medicare privatization scheme that his administration inherited from its right-wing predecessor and rebranded.
It also comes as the White House is locked in a standoff with House Republicans over the debt ceiling. Republican lawmakers have pushed for deeply unpopular cuts to Medicare, Social Security, and other critical federal programs as a necessary condition for any deal to raise the country's borrowing limit and avert a catastrophic default.
"In less than a month, MAGA extremists have threatened to drive the economy into a recession by defaulting on our debt, promised to bring up a bill to impose a 30% national sales tax, and now have introduced legislation to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act," Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Democratic Party-aligned Center for American Progress said in a statement. "This will cut taxes for corporations who earn billions in profit while empowering Big Pharma and Big Oil to continue ripping off the American people."
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
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CW: "House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?" "It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added." White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
White House says GOP bill would force "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts" in US history | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2023/02/05/says-bill-would-force-one-of-the-biggest-medicare-benefit-cuts-in-us-history_partner/
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"The White House on Saturday condemned a newly introduced Republican bill that would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that includes a number of changes aimed at lowering costs for Medicare recipients.
Unveiled Thursday by freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), the bill has 20 original co-sponsors and is endorsed by several right-wing groups, including the Koch-funded organization Americans for Prosperity.
The Biden White House argued that rolling back the Inflation Reduction Act, which also contains major climate investments, would represent "one of the biggest Medicare benefit cuts in American history" as well as a "handout to Big Pharma." According to Politico, which first reported the White House's response to the GOP bill, the administration is planning to release "state-by-state data indicating how this would affect constituents in different areas."
"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Who on earth thinks that welfare for Big Pharma is worth selling out over a million seniors in their home state?"
The Inflation Reduction Act authorized a $35-per-month cap on insulin copayments for Medicare recipients, as well as an annual $2,000 total limit on out-of-pocket drug costs.
The bill will also, among other long-overdue changes, allow Medicare to begin negotiating the prices of a subset of the most expensive prescription drugs directly with pharmaceutical companies, which fiercely opposed the law and are working with Republicans to sabotage it. The newly negotiated prices are set to take effect in 2026.
Ogles, whose two-page bill would eliminate the above reforms, repeatedly attacked Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs and protections during his 2022 campaign for the U.S. House.
The White House's critique of Ogles' bill comes as Biden is facing pressure from advocates and physicians to cancel a Medicare privatization scheme that his administration inherited from its right-wing predecessor and rebranded.
It also comes as the White House is locked in a standoff with House Republicans over the debt ceiling. Republican lawmakers have pushed for deeply unpopular cuts to Medicare, Social Security, and other critical federal programs as a necessary condition for any deal to raise the country's borrowing limit and avert a catastrophic default.
"In less than a month, MAGA extremists have threatened to drive the economy into a recession by defaulting on our debt, promised to bring up a bill to impose a 30% national sales tax, and now have introduced legislation to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act," Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Democratic Party-aligned Center for American Progress said in a statement. "This will cut taxes for corporations who earn billions in profit while empowering Big Pharma and Big Oil to continue ripping off the American people."
"It is vital that all Americans understand what is at risk if MAGA extremists succeed in passing their latest dangerous idea: millions of lost jobs, millions more without health insurance, and higher costs for lifesaving insulin, utilities, and more," Gaspard added."
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CW: More excellent info from EPI Study Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
More excellent info from EPI Study
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Introduction Abortion has long been framed as a cultural, religious, or personal issue rather than a material “bread and butter” economic concern. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more economic policymakers have been emphasizing the issue as a pressing economic concern. In perhaps the first public comment on the issue by a major political figure, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen noted: “eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades” (Guida 2022). This direct connection between abortion and reproductive access and economic rights is critical (Banerjee 2022). This report argues that abortion access is fundamentally intertwined with economic progress and mobility. Specifically, in states where abortion has been banned or restricted, abortion restrictions constitute an additional piece in a sustained project of economic subjugation and disempowerment.1 The states banning abortion rights have, over decades, intentionally constructed an economic policy architecture defined by weak labor standards, underfunded and purposefully dysfunctional public services, and high levels of incarceration. Through a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of state level abortion access status and five indicators of economic security—the minimum wage, unionization, unemployment insurance, Medicaid expansion, and incarceration—we find that, generally, the states enacting abortion bans are the same ones that are economically disempowering workers through other channels. The results of the analysis underscore that abortion restrictions and bans do have economic effects, given the strong correlation between abortion status and various economic wellbeing metrics. Further, the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: More excellent info from EPI Study Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
More excellent info from EPI Study
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Introduction Abortion has long been framed as a cultural, religious, or personal issue rather than a material “bread and butter” economic concern. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more economic policymakers have been emphasizing the issue as a pressing economic concern. In perhaps the first public comment on the issue by a major political figure, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen noted: “eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades” (Guida 2022). This direct connection between abortion and reproductive access and economic rights is critical (Banerjee 2022). This report argues that abortion access is fundamentally intertwined with economic progress and mobility. Specifically, in states where abortion has been banned or restricted, abortion restrictions constitute an additional piece in a sustained project of economic subjugation and disempowerment.1 The states banning abortion rights have, over decades, intentionally constructed an economic policy architecture defined by weak labor standards, underfunded and purposefully dysfunctional public services, and high levels of incarceration. Through a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of state level abortion access status and five indicators of economic security—the minimum wage, unionization, unemployment insurance, Medicaid expansion, and incarceration—we find that, generally, the states enacting abortion bans are the same ones that are economically disempowering workers through other channels. The results of the analysis underscore that abortion restrictions and bans do have economic effects, given the strong correlation between abortion status and various economic wellbeing metrics. Further, the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: More excellent info from EPI Study Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
More excellent info from EPI Study
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Introduction Abortion has long been framed as a cultural, religious, or personal issue rather than a material “bread and butter” economic concern. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more economic policymakers have been emphasizing the issue as a pressing economic concern. In perhaps the first public comment on the issue by a major political figure, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen noted: “eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades” (Guida 2022). This direct connection between abortion and reproductive access and economic rights is critical (Banerjee 2022). This report argues that abortion access is fundamentally intertwined with economic progress and mobility. Specifically, in states where abortion has been banned or restricted, abortion restrictions constitute an additional piece in a sustained project of economic subjugation and disempowerment.1 The states banning abortion rights have, over decades, intentionally constructed an economic policy architecture defined by weak labor standards, underfunded and purposefully dysfunctional public services, and high levels of incarceration. Through a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of state level abortion access status and five indicators of economic security—the minimum wage, unionization, unemployment insurance, Medicaid expansion, and incarceration—we find that, generally, the states enacting abortion bans are the same ones that are economically disempowering workers through other channels. The results of the analysis underscore that abortion restrictions and bans do have economic effects, given the strong correlation between abortion status and various economic wellbeing metrics. Further, the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: More excellent info from EPI Study Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
More excellent info from EPI Study
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Introduction Abortion has long been framed as a cultural, religious, or personal issue rather than a material “bread and butter” economic concern. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more economic policymakers have been emphasizing the issue as a pressing economic concern. In perhaps the first public comment on the issue by a major political figure, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen noted: “eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades” (Guida 2022). This direct connection between abortion and reproductive access and economic rights is critical (Banerjee 2022). This report argues that abortion access is fundamentally intertwined with economic progress and mobility. Specifically, in states where abortion has been banned or restricted, abortion restrictions constitute an additional piece in a sustained project of economic subjugation and disempowerment.1 The states banning abortion rights have, over decades, intentionally constructed an economic policy architecture defined by weak labor standards, underfunded and purposefully dysfunctional public services, and high levels of incarceration. Through a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of state level abortion access status and five indicators of economic security—the minimum wage, unionization, unemployment insurance, Medicaid expansion, and incarceration—we find that, generally, the states enacting abortion bans are the same ones that are economically disempowering workers through other channels. The results of the analysis underscore that abortion restrictions and bans do have economic effects, given the strong correlation between abortion status and various economic wellbeing metrics. Further, the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: More excellent info from EPI Study Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
More excellent info from EPI Study
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Introduction Abortion has long been framed as a cultural, religious, or personal issue rather than a material “bread and butter” economic concern. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, more economic policymakers have been emphasizing the issue as a pressing economic concern. In perhaps the first public comment on the issue by a major political figure, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen noted: “eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades” (Guida 2022). This direct connection between abortion and reproductive access and economic rights is critical (Banerjee 2022). This report argues that abortion access is fundamentally intertwined with economic progress and mobility. Specifically, in states where abortion has been banned or restricted, abortion restrictions constitute an additional piece in a sustained project of economic subjugation and disempowerment.1 The states banning abortion rights have, over decades, intentionally constructed an economic policy architecture defined by weak labor standards, underfunded and purposefully dysfunctional public services, and high levels of incarceration. Through a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of state level abortion access status and five indicators of economic security—the minimum wage, unionization, unemployment insurance, Medicaid expansion, and incarceration—we find that, generally, the states enacting abortion bans are the same ones that are economically disempowering workers through other channels. The results of the analysis underscore that abortion restrictions and bans do have economic effects, given the strong correlation between abortion status and various economic wellbeing metrics. Further, the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Conclusions of this EPI Study: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
Conclusions of this EPI Study:
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Across the five measures of economic security, states with abortion bans of varying degrees generally follow similar association patterns. That is, states with abortion bans largely had lower minimum wages, unionization, and access to unemployment insurance and Medicaid expansion, and higher incarceration rates. Abortion bans as an economic policy have not appeared in a vacuum, or even as a narrowly tailored religious concern, since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1972. Rather, denial of abortion access is one additional policy that states have engineered over decades in a sustained project of economic subjugation, control, and worker disempowerment. States that have banned and restricted abortion have largely also kept minimum wages low, underfunded and complicated their unemployment insurance systems, declined to expand Medicaid, suppressed unionization, and preferred to over-incarcerate. These policies, in conjunction, keep working people economically disempowered.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Conclusions of this EPI Study: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
Conclusions of this EPI Study:
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Across the five measures of economic security, states with abortion bans of varying degrees generally follow similar association patterns. That is, states with abortion bans largely had lower minimum wages, unionization, and access to unemployment insurance and Medicaid expansion, and higher incarceration rates. Abortion bans as an economic policy have not appeared in a vacuum, or even as a narrowly tailored religious concern, since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1972. Rather, denial of abortion access is one additional policy that states have engineered over decades in a sustained project of economic subjugation, control, and worker disempowerment. States that have banned and restricted abortion have largely also kept minimum wages low, underfunded and complicated their unemployment insurance systems, declined to expand Medicaid, suppressed unionization, and preferred to over-incarcerate. These policies, in conjunction, keep working people economically disempowered.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Conclusions of this EPI Study: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
Conclusions of this EPI Study:
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Across the five measures of economic security, states with abortion bans of varying degrees generally follow similar association patterns. That is, states with abortion bans largely had lower minimum wages, unionization, and access to unemployment insurance and Medicaid expansion, and higher incarceration rates. Abortion bans as an economic policy have not appeared in a vacuum, or even as a narrowly tailored religious concern, since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1972. Rather, denial of abortion access is one additional policy that states have engineered over decades in a sustained project of economic subjugation, control, and worker disempowerment. States that have banned and restricted abortion have largely also kept minimum wages low, underfunded and complicated their unemployment insurance systems, declined to expand Medicaid, suppressed unionization, and preferred to over-incarcerate. These policies, in conjunction, keep working people economically disempowered.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Conclusions of this EPI Study: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
Conclusions of this EPI Study:
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Across the five measures of economic security, states with abortion bans of varying degrees generally follow similar association patterns. That is, states with abortion bans largely had lower minimum wages, unionization, and access to unemployment insurance and Medicaid expansion, and higher incarceration rates. Abortion bans as an economic policy have not appeared in a vacuum, or even as a narrowly tailored religious concern, since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1972. Rather, denial of abortion access is one additional policy that states have engineered over decades in a sustained project of economic subjugation, control, and worker disempowerment. States that have banned and restricted abortion have largely also kept minimum wages low, underfunded and complicated their unemployment insurance systems, declined to expand Medicaid, suppressed unionization, and preferred to over-incarcerate. These policies, in conjunction, keep working people economically disempowered.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Conclusions of this EPI Study: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! "Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
Conclusions of this EPI Study:
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
"Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers"
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy“Across the five measures of economic security, states with abortion bans of varying degrees generally follow similar association patterns. That is, states with abortion bans largely had lower minimum wages, unionization, and access to unemployment insurance and Medicaid expansion, and higher incarceration rates. Abortion bans as an economic policy have not appeared in a vacuum, or even as a narrowly tailored religious concern, since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1972. Rather, denial of abortion access is one additional policy that states have engineered over decades in a sustained project of economic subjugation, control, and worker disempowerment. States that have banned and restricted abortion have largely also kept minimum wages low, underfunded and complicated their unemployment insurance systems, declined to expand Medicaid, suppressed unionization, and preferred to over-incarcerate. These policies, in conjunction, keep working people economically disempowered.”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"...the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.
“Key findings from the analysis
States with abortion restrictions or total bans have on average:lower minimum wages ($8.17 compared with $11.92 in the abortion-protected states)
unionization levels half as high as those in the abortion-protected states
only three in 10 unemployed people receiving unemployment insurance (compared with 42% in other states)
lower rates of Medicaid expansion
an incarceration rate 1.5 times that of the abortion-protected states”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"...the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.
“Key findings from the analysis
States with abortion restrictions or total bans have on average:lower minimum wages ($8.17 compared with $11.92 in the abortion-protected states)
unionization levels half as high as those in the abortion-protected states
only three in 10 unemployed people receiving unemployment insurance (compared with 42% in other states)
lower rates of Medicaid expansion
an incarceration rate 1.5 times that of the abortion-protected states”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"...the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.
“Key findings from the analysis
States with abortion restrictions or total bans have on average:lower minimum wages ($8.17 compared with $11.92 in the abortion-protected states)
unionization levels half as high as those in the abortion-protected states
only three in 10 unemployed people receiving unemployment insurance (compared with 42% in other states)
lower rates of Medicaid expansion
an incarceration rate 1.5 times that of the abortion-protected states”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"...the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.
“Key findings from the analysis
States with abortion restrictions or total bans have on average:lower minimum wages ($8.17 compared with $11.92 in the abortion-protected states)
unionization levels half as high as those in the abortion-protected states
only three in 10 unemployed people receiving unemployment insurance (compared with 42% in other states)
lower rates of Medicaid expansion
an incarceration rate 1.5 times that of the abortion-protected states”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs! Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
Abortion is just one more way these red states seek to control and impoverish their working class citizens to make them easier to manipulate and control by corporate and wealthy interests. Talk about working hard to get their serfs back!! They don't want fellow citizens, they want assets they can control, profit off of and manipulate. Not people, just cogs!
Abortion bans, low wages, and public underinvestment are interconnected economic policy tools to disempower and control workers
EPI
#TheyWantTheirSerfsBack
#GreedKills
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"...the consistent pattern of state abortion bans and negative economic outcomes shows how abortion fits into an economics and politics of control. Abortion restrictions are planks in a policy regime of disempowerment and control over workers’ autonomy and livelihoods, just like deliberately low wage standards, underfunded social services, or restricted collective bargaining power. Economic policymakers must prioritize this issue as widespread abortion bans will contribute to a loss in economic security and independence for millions in the current and future generations.
“Key findings from the analysis
States with abortion restrictions or total bans have on average:lower minimum wages ($8.17 compared with $11.92 in the abortion-protected states)
unionization levels half as high as those in the abortion-protected states
only three in 10 unemployed people receiving unemployment insurance (compared with 42% in other states)
lower rates of Medicaid expansion
an incarceration rate 1.5 times that of the abortion-protected states”
Via https://www.epi.org/publication/economics-of-abortion-bans/
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CW: The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy. “Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said." Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul
The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy.
“Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said."
Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/warren-debt-ceiling-crisis-wouldnt-even-exist-without-trump-tax-overhaul/
#GOPLovesPower
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) dug into Republicans for their willingness to “wreck the economy” over the debt ceiling, pointing out that the GOP is only interested in protecting their rich allies and creating an economic crisis that would reflect poorly on President Joe Biden.
In an appearance on MSNBC, Warren said that the conservative regressive tax policies that the GOP has pushed for decades has led to the current crisis with the debt ceiling.
“If the Republicans had not pushed just two things, the Republican tax cuts that went mostly to those at the very top and the biggest corporations and hollowing out the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] specifically so they could not hold wealthy tax cheats accountable, wouldn’t be able to audit them,” she said. “If those two things had not happened, then we wouldn’t even hit the debt ceiling at any time during the first Biden administration.”
“This is a manufactured crisis. The real issue at stake here is, who’s going to pay to run this government?” the Massachusetts senator said. “The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks.”
Indeed, as Warren pointed out in her op-ed published in the Boston Globe this week, the 2017 tax cuts have cost the government nearly $2 trillion, while Republicans have steadily eroded the IRS’s funding for decades, costing the government potentially trillions owed from wealthy tax cheats.
Congress has raised the debt ceiling twice under Biden, by about $3 trillion. Republicans voted three times to raise the debt ceiling under President Donald Trump, who added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt.
...
“If this were really about the national debt, then there are plenty of places we could go to stitch up loopholes — like no more of these tax havens abroad — that we could get that under control. But that is not where the Republicans want to go,” Warren said.Even though the huge deficits in government funding have been caused in large part by Republican policies, the party is using its control of the House to threaten a debt default, which would spell disaster for the economy, unless their demands are met; some Republicans are planning to use the debt ceiling to force through cuts to crucial programs like Social Security, for instance.
Meanwhile, Republicans made it clear in their first few weeks with House control that their top priority is to protect corporations and the wealthy. The first bill they passed was to revoke billions of dollars pegged for the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats, which analyses say would more than pay for itself.
...
Warren said that Republicans don’t care about the ramifications of their political gamesmanship. Rather, they want to cause chaos and destruction in order to win political points, she said.“If there are cuts to Social Security that they can turn around then and blame on the Democrats, if the economy goes over a cliff, if the worldwide economy blows up,” said Warren. “There are Republicans, particularly in the House, who think, ‘Hey, that’s going to make it easier to get our guy back in the White House.’”
“And so long as that’s their mindset, that’s not a position of negotiating to try to make things better, safer in this country, to make this country work better for hardworking families,” she continued."
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CW: The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy. “Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said." Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul
The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy.
“Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said."
Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/warren-debt-ceiling-crisis-wouldnt-even-exist-without-trump-tax-overhaul/
#GOPLovesPower
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) dug into Republicans for their willingness to “wreck the economy” over the debt ceiling, pointing out that the GOP is only interested in protecting their rich allies and creating an economic crisis that would reflect poorly on President Joe Biden.
In an appearance on MSNBC, Warren said that the conservative regressive tax policies that the GOP has pushed for decades has led to the current crisis with the debt ceiling.
“If the Republicans had not pushed just two things, the Republican tax cuts that went mostly to those at the very top and the biggest corporations and hollowing out the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] specifically so they could not hold wealthy tax cheats accountable, wouldn’t be able to audit them,” she said. “If those two things had not happened, then we wouldn’t even hit the debt ceiling at any time during the first Biden administration.”
“This is a manufactured crisis. The real issue at stake here is, who’s going to pay to run this government?” the Massachusetts senator said. “The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks.”
Indeed, as Warren pointed out in her op-ed published in the Boston Globe this week, the 2017 tax cuts have cost the government nearly $2 trillion, while Republicans have steadily eroded the IRS’s funding for decades, costing the government potentially trillions owed from wealthy tax cheats.
Congress has raised the debt ceiling twice under Biden, by about $3 trillion. Republicans voted three times to raise the debt ceiling under President Donald Trump, who added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt.
...
“If this were really about the national debt, then there are plenty of places we could go to stitch up loopholes — like no more of these tax havens abroad — that we could get that under control. But that is not where the Republicans want to go,” Warren said.Even though the huge deficits in government funding have been caused in large part by Republican policies, the party is using its control of the House to threaten a debt default, which would spell disaster for the economy, unless their demands are met; some Republicans are planning to use the debt ceiling to force through cuts to crucial programs like Social Security, for instance.
Meanwhile, Republicans made it clear in their first few weeks with House control that their top priority is to protect corporations and the wealthy. The first bill they passed was to revoke billions of dollars pegged for the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats, which analyses say would more than pay for itself.
...
Warren said that Republicans don’t care about the ramifications of their political gamesmanship. Rather, they want to cause chaos and destruction in order to win political points, she said.“If there are cuts to Social Security that they can turn around then and blame on the Democrats, if the economy goes over a cliff, if the worldwide economy blows up,” said Warren. “There are Republicans, particularly in the House, who think, ‘Hey, that’s going to make it easier to get our guy back in the White House.’”
“And so long as that’s their mindset, that’s not a position of negotiating to try to make things better, safer in this country, to make this country work better for hardworking families,” she continued."
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CW: The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy. “Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said." Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul
The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy.
“Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said."
Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/warren-debt-ceiling-crisis-wouldnt-even-exist-without-trump-tax-overhaul/
#GOPLovesPower
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) dug into Republicans for their willingness to “wreck the economy” over the debt ceiling, pointing out that the GOP is only interested in protecting their rich allies and creating an economic crisis that would reflect poorly on President Joe Biden.
In an appearance on MSNBC, Warren said that the conservative regressive tax policies that the GOP has pushed for decades has led to the current crisis with the debt ceiling.
“If the Republicans had not pushed just two things, the Republican tax cuts that went mostly to those at the very top and the biggest corporations and hollowing out the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] specifically so they could not hold wealthy tax cheats accountable, wouldn’t be able to audit them,” she said. “If those two things had not happened, then we wouldn’t even hit the debt ceiling at any time during the first Biden administration.”
“This is a manufactured crisis. The real issue at stake here is, who’s going to pay to run this government?” the Massachusetts senator said. “The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks.”
Indeed, as Warren pointed out in her op-ed published in the Boston Globe this week, the 2017 tax cuts have cost the government nearly $2 trillion, while Republicans have steadily eroded the IRS’s funding for decades, costing the government potentially trillions owed from wealthy tax cheats.
Congress has raised the debt ceiling twice under Biden, by about $3 trillion. Republicans voted three times to raise the debt ceiling under President Donald Trump, who added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt.
...
“If this were really about the national debt, then there are plenty of places we could go to stitch up loopholes — like no more of these tax havens abroad — that we could get that under control. But that is not where the Republicans want to go,” Warren said.Even though the huge deficits in government funding have been caused in large part by Republican policies, the party is using its control of the House to threaten a debt default, which would spell disaster for the economy, unless their demands are met; some Republicans are planning to use the debt ceiling to force through cuts to crucial programs like Social Security, for instance.
Meanwhile, Republicans made it clear in their first few weeks with House control that their top priority is to protect corporations and the wealthy. The first bill they passed was to revoke billions of dollars pegged for the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats, which analyses say would more than pay for itself.
...
Warren said that Republicans don’t care about the ramifications of their political gamesmanship. Rather, they want to cause chaos and destruction in order to win political points, she said.“If there are cuts to Social Security that they can turn around then and blame on the Democrats, if the economy goes over a cliff, if the worldwide economy blows up,” said Warren. “There are Republicans, particularly in the House, who think, ‘Hey, that’s going to make it easier to get our guy back in the White House.’”
“And so long as that’s their mindset, that’s not a position of negotiating to try to make things better, safer in this country, to make this country work better for hardworking families,” she continued."
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CW: The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy. “Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said." Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul
The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy.
“Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said."
Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/warren-debt-ceiling-crisis-wouldnt-even-exist-without-trump-tax-overhaul/
#GOPLovesPower
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) dug into Republicans for their willingness to “wreck the economy” over the debt ceiling, pointing out that the GOP is only interested in protecting their rich allies and creating an economic crisis that would reflect poorly on President Joe Biden.
In an appearance on MSNBC, Warren said that the conservative regressive tax policies that the GOP has pushed for decades has led to the current crisis with the debt ceiling.
“If the Republicans had not pushed just two things, the Republican tax cuts that went mostly to those at the very top and the biggest corporations and hollowing out the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] specifically so they could not hold wealthy tax cheats accountable, wouldn’t be able to audit them,” she said. “If those two things had not happened, then we wouldn’t even hit the debt ceiling at any time during the first Biden administration.”
“This is a manufactured crisis. The real issue at stake here is, who’s going to pay to run this government?” the Massachusetts senator said. “The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks.”
Indeed, as Warren pointed out in her op-ed published in the Boston Globe this week, the 2017 tax cuts have cost the government nearly $2 trillion, while Republicans have steadily eroded the IRS’s funding for decades, costing the government potentially trillions owed from wealthy tax cheats.
Congress has raised the debt ceiling twice under Biden, by about $3 trillion. Republicans voted three times to raise the debt ceiling under President Donald Trump, who added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt.
...
“If this were really about the national debt, then there are plenty of places we could go to stitch up loopholes — like no more of these tax havens abroad — that we could get that under control. But that is not where the Republicans want to go,” Warren said.Even though the huge deficits in government funding have been caused in large part by Republican policies, the party is using its control of the House to threaten a debt default, which would spell disaster for the economy, unless their demands are met; some Republicans are planning to use the debt ceiling to force through cuts to crucial programs like Social Security, for instance.
Meanwhile, Republicans made it clear in their first few weeks with House control that their top priority is to protect corporations and the wealthy. The first bill they passed was to revoke billions of dollars pegged for the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats, which analyses say would more than pay for itself.
...
Warren said that Republicans don’t care about the ramifications of their political gamesmanship. Rather, they want to cause chaos and destruction in order to win political points, she said.“If there are cuts to Social Security that they can turn around then and blame on the Democrats, if the economy goes over a cliff, if the worldwide economy blows up,” said Warren. “There are Republicans, particularly in the House, who think, ‘Hey, that’s going to make it easier to get our guy back in the White House.’”
“And so long as that’s their mindset, that’s not a position of negotiating to try to make things better, safer in this country, to make this country work better for hardworking families,” she continued."
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CW: The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy. “Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said." Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul
The GOP only cares about the deficit when democrats are in charge. They are more than happy to run it up using tax breaks for the wealthy, as they have done numerous times. They don't have real policy ideas to help Americans, they just want to benefit the wealthy. They are more than happy to blow up the economy and destroy social security and medicare as they think creating chaos will help them take control of the senate and white house. They don't care about Americans, they are only interested in power and pandering to the wealthy.
“Who’s going to pay to run this government? The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks,” she said."
Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn’t Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/warren-debt-ceiling-crisis-wouldnt-even-exist-without-trump-tax-overhaul/
#GOPLovesPower
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesDemocracy"Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) dug into Republicans for their willingness to “wreck the economy” over the debt ceiling, pointing out that the GOP is only interested in protecting their rich allies and creating an economic crisis that would reflect poorly on President Joe Biden.
In an appearance on MSNBC, Warren said that the conservative regressive tax policies that the GOP has pushed for decades has led to the current crisis with the debt ceiling.
“If the Republicans had not pushed just two things, the Republican tax cuts that went mostly to those at the very top and the biggest corporations and hollowing out the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] specifically so they could not hold wealthy tax cheats accountable, wouldn’t be able to audit them,” she said. “If those two things had not happened, then we wouldn’t even hit the debt ceiling at any time during the first Biden administration.”
“This is a manufactured crisis. The real issue at stake here is, who’s going to pay to run this government?” the Massachusetts senator said. “The Republicans are real clear on that: not the rich folks.”
Indeed, as Warren pointed out in her op-ed published in the Boston Globe this week, the 2017 tax cuts have cost the government nearly $2 trillion, while Republicans have steadily eroded the IRS’s funding for decades, costing the government potentially trillions owed from wealthy tax cheats.
Congress has raised the debt ceiling twice under Biden, by about $3 trillion. Republicans voted three times to raise the debt ceiling under President Donald Trump, who added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt.
...
“If this were really about the national debt, then there are plenty of places we could go to stitch up loopholes — like no more of these tax havens abroad — that we could get that under control. But that is not where the Republicans want to go,” Warren said.Even though the huge deficits in government funding have been caused in large part by Republican policies, the party is using its control of the House to threaten a debt default, which would spell disaster for the economy, unless their demands are met; some Republicans are planning to use the debt ceiling to force through cuts to crucial programs like Social Security, for instance.
Meanwhile, Republicans made it clear in their first few weeks with House control that their top priority is to protect corporations and the wealthy. The first bill they passed was to revoke billions of dollars pegged for the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats, which analyses say would more than pay for itself.
...
Warren said that Republicans don’t care about the ramifications of their political gamesmanship. Rather, they want to cause chaos and destruction in order to win political points, she said.“If there are cuts to Social Security that they can turn around then and blame on the Democrats, if the economy goes over a cliff, if the worldwide economy blows up,” said Warren. “There are Republicans, particularly in the House, who think, ‘Hey, that’s going to make it easier to get our guy back in the White House.’”
“And so long as that’s their mindset, that’s not a position of negotiating to try to make things better, safer in this country, to make this country work better for hardworking families,” she continued."
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CW: The GOP's only real proposals benefit the rich at the expense of the rest of us. Yet their base is too ginned up on hate and outrage to pay attention to what's really going on. The GOP tax plan is to let the rich pay less and make you pay more
The GOP's only real proposals benefit the rich at the expense of the rest of us. Yet their base is too ginned up on hate and outrage to pay attention to what's really going on.
The GOP tax plan is to let the rich pay less and make you pay more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/23/biden-tax-gop-sales-tax/#GOPInBedWithTheRich
#GOPIsTheRichsTool
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"President Biden, consistent with his idea of building an economy from “the bottom up and the middle out,” has tried to get the rich and big corporations to pay more taxes. The MAGA GOP, abandoning all pretense of populism, has a scheme to junk the progressive tax code and replace it with a national sales tax, with devastating results for the middle class.
That tells you a lot about the contrasting visions of the two parties. One still fights for the little guy in practical, concrete terms while the other proposes one harebrained scheme after another with no regard to the needs of average Americans.
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Keeping his promises not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year and to get businesses to pay more, Biden raised $300 billion in revenue in the Inflation Reduction Act by placing a new tax on stock buybacks and enacting a minimum tax on big corporations. To the chagrin of tax cheats (and their sympathetic Republican politicians), the law also boosted funding for the Internal Revenue Service to crack down on tax evaders.
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More far-reaching plans to increase the individual top marginal tax rate, to boost the corporate tax rate, to equalize tax treatment of capital gains and ordinary income for those making more than $400,000, and to eliminate the step-up basis for the estate tax never passed.The principle underlying all of these measures, which would be comparatively small adjustments that would not hit the vast majority of Americans, was simple: The rich have made out very well and should pay more taxes; working- and middle-class taxpayers shouldn’t.
“Over the past 40 years, the wealthy have gotten wealthier, and too many corporations have lost their sense of responsibility to their workers, their communities and the country,” Biden said in a speech in September 2021. “CEOs used to make about 20 times the average worker in the company that they ran. Today, they make more than 350 times what the average worker in their corporation makes.”
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That grotesque widening of income inequality offends most Americans, who consistently tell pollsters the rich should pay more.GOP politicians and their wealthy donors see things differently. The first tax measure proposed by the MAGA House was to try to take back funding for the IRS to chase down tax cheats.
“The debate should focus on one accurate and alarming number: the IRS has 2,284 fewer skilled auditors to handle the sophisticated returns of wealthy taxpayers than it did in 1954,” Chuck Marr of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities wrote. “The decade-long, House Republican-driven budget cuts have created dysfunction at the IRS, where relatively few millionaires are now audited.”
But allowing tax cheats to avoid paying what they legally owe is not the sum total of the GOP thinking on taxes. “As part of his deal to become House speaker,” Semafor reported, “Kevin McCarthy reportedly promised his party’s conservative hardliners a vote on legislation that would scrap the entire American tax code and replace it with a jumbo-sized national sales tax.”
A mammoth 30 percent sales tax would be grossly regressive, socking it to the same working- and middle-class families Republicans ostensibly worry are paying more at the pump and grocery store because of inflation.
...Even Norquist knows that because the poor and middle class spend a much higher percentage of their income on necessities such as food and clothing, the impact would be devastating.
Unsurprisingly Democrats leaped at the chance to blast the scheme. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted:
"Hold on: House Republicans want a national 30% sales tax on everything from groceries to gasoline? They want to raise taxes on working-class & middle-class families while slashing them for millionaires & billionaires?Are they TRYING to show exactly how out of touch they are?"
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The GOP plan boils down to this: Let rich tax cheats get away with not paying what they owe while redoing the entire tax system so the overwhelming burden will fall on those less able to pay.
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The plan is unlikely even to get a vote. But it is indicative of the utter lack of seriousness that pervades the GOP. They throw out one boneheaded idea after another, hoping to please some segment of their base or donors, with nary a care in the world for the needs of their constituents nor for the actual challenges we face." -
CW: The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel. "63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation." GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters
The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel.
"63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation."
GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/gop-plan-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare-is-disliked-among-republican-voters/
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPDestroyDemocracyViaChaos
GOPsRealBaseIsTheRich"New polling finds that the GOP’s plan to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare through debt ceiling legislation is vastly unpopular — even among a majority of the Republican voter base.
According to a new survey by Data for Progress, 63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans.
This was by far the most popular response to the question of whether the GOP should force through the cuts among the Republican voters, with a mere 15 percent saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation. Only 24 percent of Republican respondents said that Republicans should refuse to raise the debt ceiling whatsoever — an extremist option that would drop a bomb onto the already fragile economy.
These results demonstrate that, if Republicans continue to pursue the cuts to Social Security and Medicare, they will be standing in opposition not only to what most Americans want, but also to what their own base wants.
The polling further found that a plurality of the Republican base believes that the party should make bipartisanship a priority for the debt ceiling, with 45 percent of Republicans in agreement and 42 percent saying that Republicans should prioritize “opposing Democrats..."
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CW: The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel. "63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation." GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters
The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel.
"63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation."
GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/gop-plan-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare-is-disliked-among-republican-voters/
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPDestroyDemocracyViaChaos
GOPsRealBaseIsTheRich"New polling finds that the GOP’s plan to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare through debt ceiling legislation is vastly unpopular — even among a majority of the Republican voter base.
According to a new survey by Data for Progress, 63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans.
This was by far the most popular response to the question of whether the GOP should force through the cuts among the Republican voters, with a mere 15 percent saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation. Only 24 percent of Republican respondents said that Republicans should refuse to raise the debt ceiling whatsoever — an extremist option that would drop a bomb onto the already fragile economy.
These results demonstrate that, if Republicans continue to pursue the cuts to Social Security and Medicare, they will be standing in opposition not only to what most Americans want, but also to what their own base wants.
The polling further found that a plurality of the Republican base believes that the party should make bipartisanship a priority for the debt ceiling, with 45 percent of Republicans in agreement and 42 percent saying that Republicans should prioritize “opposing Democrats..."
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CW: The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel. "63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation." GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters
The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel.
"63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation."
GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/gop-plan-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare-is-disliked-among-republican-voters/
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPDestroyDemocracyViaChaos
GOPsRealBaseIsTheRich"New polling finds that the GOP’s plan to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare through debt ceiling legislation is vastly unpopular — even among a majority of the Republican voter base.
According to a new survey by Data for Progress, 63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans.
This was by far the most popular response to the question of whether the GOP should force through the cuts among the Republican voters, with a mere 15 percent saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation. Only 24 percent of Republican respondents said that Republicans should refuse to raise the debt ceiling whatsoever — an extremist option that would drop a bomb onto the already fragile economy.
These results demonstrate that, if Republicans continue to pursue the cuts to Social Security and Medicare, they will be standing in opposition not only to what most Americans want, but also to what their own base wants.
The polling further found that a plurality of the Republican base believes that the party should make bipartisanship a priority for the debt ceiling, with 45 percent of Republicans in agreement and 42 percent saying that Republicans should prioritize “opposing Democrats..."
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CW: The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel. "63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation." GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters
The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel.
"63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation."
GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/gop-plan-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare-is-disliked-among-republican-voters/
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPDestroyDemocracyViaChaos
GOPsRealBaseIsTheRich"New polling finds that the GOP’s plan to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare through debt ceiling legislation is vastly unpopular — even among a majority of the Republican voter base.
According to a new survey by Data for Progress, 63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans.
This was by far the most popular response to the question of whether the GOP should force through the cuts among the Republican voters, with a mere 15 percent saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation. Only 24 percent of Republican respondents said that Republicans should refuse to raise the debt ceiling whatsoever — an extremist option that would drop a bomb onto the already fragile economy.
These results demonstrate that, if Republicans continue to pursue the cuts to Social Security and Medicare, they will be standing in opposition not only to what most Americans want, but also to what their own base wants.
The polling further found that a plurality of the Republican base believes that the party should make bipartisanship a priority for the debt ceiling, with 45 percent of Republicans in agreement and 42 percent saying that Republicans should prioritize “opposing Democrats..."
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CW: The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel. "63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation." GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters
The GOP uses their "base" to get elected, while the right-wing establishment feeds the "base" lies to keep them scared, hating, misinformed and voting against their own interests. The GOP's real base is their benefactors, the obscenely wealthy who want to keep Americans poorly educated, misinformed, poor and too desperate to foment revolt or changes. In other words, they want their serfs back! They don't care that the average republican doesn't want them destroying the economy with the debt ceiling or killing social security and medicare. The GOP only cares that their wealthy benefactors want them to kill social security and medicare because they hate working class people and love being cruel.
"63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans....a mere 15 percent (of republicans) saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation."
GOP Plan to Cut Social Security and Medicare Is Disliked Among Republican Voters - Truthout https://truthout.org/articles/gop-plan-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare-is-disliked-among-republican-voters/
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPDestroyDemocracyViaChaos
GOPsRealBaseIsTheRich"New polling finds that the GOP’s plan to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare through debt ceiling legislation is vastly unpopular — even among a majority of the Republican voter base.
According to a new survey by Data for Progress, 63 percent of all voters think that House Republicans should allow the debt limit to be raised to avoid economic disaster, without executing their cynical plan to tie the legislation to cuts to the crucial social programs. This includes 78 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents and even 50 percent of Republicans.
This was by far the most popular response to the question of whether the GOP should force through the cuts among the Republican voters, with a mere 15 percent saying they would support a plan to attach the cuts to debt ceiling legislation. Only 24 percent of Republican respondents said that Republicans should refuse to raise the debt ceiling whatsoever — an extremist option that would drop a bomb onto the already fragile economy.
These results demonstrate that, if Republicans continue to pursue the cuts to Social Security and Medicare, they will be standing in opposition not only to what most Americans want, but also to what their own base wants.
The polling further found that a plurality of the Republican base believes that the party should make bipartisanship a priority for the debt ceiling, with 45 percent of Republicans in agreement and 42 percent saying that Republicans should prioritize “opposing Democrats..."
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CW: The GOP wants to make sure their base, that is, the obscenely wealthy and corporations, don't have to pay taxes and guess who they want to step up and take their place; the rest of us. Let's Talk About About Fairness As 34% Of Large Profitable Corporations Pay 0 In Federal Taxes
The GOP wants to make sure their base, that is, the obscenely wealthy and corporations, don't have to pay taxes and guess who they want to step up and take their place; the rest of us.
Let's Talk About About Fairness As 34% Of Large Profitable Corporations Pay 0 In Federal Taxes https://politicususa.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-about-fairness-as?
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"GAO Study Finds Big Profitable Corporations Aren’t Paying Their Fair Share
The GAO study found:In each year between 2014 and 2018, approximately 68 percent of all corporations had no federal income tax liability after credits. This level remained stable throughout the time period, remaining within a percentage point of the 5-year average. A lower share of large corporations, of which there are approximately 50,000 in each year of our data, had no federal income tax liability in each year from 2014 through 2018.
Over the 5-year period, an average of 51 percent of large corporations had no federal income tax liability. However, this share increased from a low of 47 percent in 2014 to a high of 58 percent in 2018. A still lower share of profitable large corporations had no federal income tax liability in each year from 2014 to 2018.
The share of profitable large corporations owing no federal income tax after credits increased from approximately 22 percent to approximately 34 percent between 2014 and 2018, averaging 25 percent over the 5-year period. The number of profitable large corporations in the data ranged between approximately 25,000 and 35,000 between 2014 and 2018.
The number of large profitable corporations remained stable between 2014 and 2018, but the percentage of these corporations that paid zero federal taxes grew.
It is time for a real conversation about fairness, and Republicans have already made it clear which side they are on."
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CW: The GOP wants to make sure their base, that is, the obscenely wealthy and corporations, don't have to pay taxes and guess who they want to step up and take their place; the rest of us. Let's Talk About About Fairness As 34% Of Large Profitable Corporations Pay 0 In Federal Taxes
The GOP wants to make sure their base, that is, the obscenely wealthy and corporations, don't have to pay taxes and guess who they want to step up and take their place; the rest of us.
Let's Talk About About Fairness As 34% Of Large Profitable Corporations Pay 0 In Federal Taxes https://politicususa.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-about-fairness-as?
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"GAO Study Finds Big Profitable Corporations Aren’t Paying Their Fair Share
The GAO study found:In each year between 2014 and 2018, approximately 68 percent of all corporations had no federal income tax liability after credits. This level remained stable throughout the time period, remaining within a percentage point of the 5-year average. A lower share of large corporations, of which there are approximately 50,000 in each year of our data, had no federal income tax liability in each year from 2014 through 2018.
Over the 5-year period, an average of 51 percent of large corporations had no federal income tax liability. However, this share increased from a low of 47 percent in 2014 to a high of 58 percent in 2018. A still lower share of profitable large corporations had no federal income tax liability in each year from 2014 to 2018.
The share of profitable large corporations owing no federal income tax after credits increased from approximately 22 percent to approximately 34 percent between 2014 and 2018, averaging 25 percent over the 5-year period. The number of profitable large corporations in the data ranged between approximately 25,000 and 35,000 between 2014 and 2018.
The number of large profitable corporations remained stable between 2014 and 2018, but the percentage of these corporations that paid zero federal taxes grew.
It is time for a real conversation about fairness, and Republicans have already made it clear which side they are on."
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CW: The GOP wants to make sure their base, that is, the obscenely wealthy and corporations, don't have to pay taxes and guess who they want to step up and take their place; the rest of us. Let's Talk About About Fairness As 34% Of Large Profitable Corporations Pay 0 In Federal Taxes
The GOP wants to make sure their base, that is, the obscenely wealthy and corporations, don't have to pay taxes and guess who they want to step up and take their place; the rest of us.
Let's Talk About About Fairness As 34% Of Large Profitable Corporations Pay 0 In Federal Taxes https://politicususa.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-about-fairness-as?
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"GAO Study Finds Big Profitable Corporations Aren’t Paying Their Fair Share
The GAO study found:In each year between 2014 and 2018, approximately 68 percent of all corporations had no federal income tax liability after credits. This level remained stable throughout the time period, remaining within a percentage point of the 5-year average. A lower share of large corporations, of which there are approximately 50,000 in each year of our data, had no federal income tax liability in each year from 2014 through 2018.
Over the 5-year period, an average of 51 percent of large corporations had no federal income tax liability. However, this share increased from a low of 47 percent in 2014 to a high of 58 percent in 2018. A still lower share of profitable large corporations had no federal income tax liability in each year from 2014 to 2018.
The share of profitable large corporations owing no federal income tax after credits increased from approximately 22 percent to approximately 34 percent between 2014 and 2018, averaging 25 percent over the 5-year period. The number of profitable large corporations in the data ranged between approximately 25,000 and 35,000 between 2014 and 2018.
The number of large profitable corporations remained stable between 2014 and 2018, but the percentage of these corporations that paid zero federal taxes grew.
It is time for a real conversation about fairness, and Republicans have already made it clear which side they are on."
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CW: The GOP wants to make sure their base, that is, the obscenely wealthy and corporations, don't have to pay taxes and guess who they want to step up and take their place; the rest of us. Let's Talk About About Fairness As 34% Of Large Profitable Corporations Pay 0 In Federal Taxes
The GOP wants to make sure their base, that is, the obscenely wealthy and corporations, don't have to pay taxes and guess who they want to step up and take their place; the rest of us.
Let's Talk About About Fairness As 34% Of Large Profitable Corporations Pay 0 In Federal Taxes https://politicususa.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-about-fairness-as?
#GOPInBedWithRich
#GOPHatesAvgAmericans"GAO Study Finds Big Profitable Corporations Aren’t Paying Their Fair Share
The GAO study found:In each year between 2014 and 2018, approximately 68 percent of all corporations had no federal income tax liability after credits. This level remained stable throughout the time period, remaining within a percentage point of the 5-year average. A lower share of large corporations, of which there are approximately 50,000 in each year of our data, had no federal income tax liability in each year from 2014 through 2018.
Over the 5-year period, an average of 51 percent of large corporations had no federal income tax liability. However, this share increased from a low of 47 percent in 2014 to a high of 58 percent in 2018. A still lower share of profitable large corporations had no federal income tax liability in each year from 2014 to 2018.
The share of profitable large corporations owing no federal income tax after credits increased from approximately 22 percent to approximately 34 percent between 2014 and 2018, averaging 25 percent over the 5-year period. The number of profitable large corporations in the data ranged between approximately 25,000 and 35,000 between 2014 and 2018.
The number of large profitable corporations remained stable between 2014 and 2018, but the percentage of these corporations that paid zero federal taxes grew.
It is time for a real conversation about fairness, and Republicans have already made it clear which side they are on."