Dutch Uncle
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No. Only a fucking moron denies who won a national election. Are you a fucking moron?
Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package
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your xenophobic bullshit is nonsensical
we have people that can't read or write here living with iPhones and air-conditioning only because of where they were born
Tbird19482
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Then the MAGAS in the states that get hit will start crying we need help , we need help. and when it doesn't come and some of them lose everything it will be too late to go back.,
Trump has put the burden of helping these people on the states and as of now I do not know of any state that has put any funds away to help them, so these people will have to go it alone and a lot of them may lose everything they have.
I feel bad for the ones that didn't vote for this but the ones that did I say you got what you wanted now suffer with it.
Dutch Uncle
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Agreed, but MAGAts, like their Orange Messiah, believe life is a Zero Sum game. To be winners, they need to make losers. The poor are made the "losers" by the "winners" who take from them.
Followers of Jesus, OTOH, believe existence is a non-zero-sum game. Christian religions, not so much.
Faith and Values: Jesus didn’t play zero-sum games
Our religious doctrines are pockmarked with winner/loser theologies – zero-sum games on steroids. Yet along comes Jesus and effectively says, “God won’t play your zero-sum game of scarcity. Neither will I!”
www.spokesman.com
Those are the stakes in what’s known as a “zero-sum game.” The term is used in everything from economics to politics to neighborhood relations. It even comes up when describing family dynamics.
People compete for the same resources, so whatever I win, you lose – and vice versa.
From benign bicyclists ignoring stop signs to increasingly toxic shoving matches to the horrors of mass shootings, zero-sum games are played every day. Violence in all of its escalated forms testifies to the bully’s illusion that winning the zero-sum game makes you a real winner.
Our religious doctrines are pockmarked with winner/loser theologies – zero-sum games on steroids. Yet along comes Jesus and effectively says, “God won’t play your zero-sum game of scarcity. Neither will I!”
Jesus knew that God’s immense plan for the world was based on abundance, not scarcity. Scarcity encourages hoarding. Abundance encourages sharing.
Trumpet
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How do you know that???? They probably pay more than what Crazy Trump did.
we understand programs like earned income credit for starters
the concept of not bleeding a turnip is lost on the libtard society
Trumpet
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You are derping again; another words you don't know what you babbling about.
Trumpet
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The top 20% percent in this country who earn over half the total income in this country are the ones funding the Corrupt-Lican so that they don't have to pay their fair share of taxes.
Over the past 50 years, the highest-earning 20% of U.S. households have steadily brought in a larger share of the country’s total income; over half.
www.pewresearch.org
Over the past 50 years, the highest-earning 20% of U.S. households have steadily brought in a larger share of the country’s total income; over half.
6 facts about economic inequality in the U.S.
Over the past 50 years, the highest-earning 20% of U.S. households have steadily brought in a larger share of the country’s total income.
www.pewresearch.org
T. A. Gardner
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On average, low income people pay less than $600 in taxes a year. With federal taxes, they almost uniformly get money back rather than owe anything.
Summary of the Latest Federal Income Tax Data, 2023 Update
The latest IRS data shows that the U.S. federal individual income tax continued to be progressive, borne primarily by the highest income earners.
taxfoundation.org
as they should
to do otherwise would be asinine
right now, millions of Americans pay no taxes but vote for more spending
WinterBorn
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Would you feel better if we took away the iPhones and air-conditioning?
I would feel better if we stopped being cheaters in the market
our markets can recede. home values can drop. people that make poor decisions should suffer from it. Planning and saving should be rewarded. borrowing and over spending should not
Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
toxic just repeats what it hears on fox 'news'
WinterBorn
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So, if someone borrows or overspends, how many years in prison do you want them to get?
I don't want them to get a tax break for having a more expensive home. or to be punished for saving and not borrowing
ZenMode
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It appears to be similar to the Republican scheme to disenfranchise voters: make the paperwork requirements more difficult.
Senate vote: 20 million people could lose Medicaid benefits
Hundreds of thousands of Americans, including residents of Republican-led states could lose insurance coverage under GOP spending bill.www.usatoday.comThe bill's impact on Medicaid recipients and others
According to KFF, 92% of Medicaid recipients work full or part-time, or can't work because of illness, disability, caregiving responsibilities, or school attendance. Many work for low-paying jobs in small companies that do not provide insurance.
Adding work requirements, KFF found, would require states to verify someone's employment status at least every 6 months, creating bureaucratic hurdles. A number of states that imposed work requirements during Trump's first term ended up eliminating them.
You believe that verifying eligibility every six months is too often? How often would be ok in your view or is it 'once you're in, you're in for life" kind of thing?
Dutch Uncle
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It depends. At least an annual requirement. Part of the problem is exactly as noted before: Republicans pass "busy work requirements" then cut staffing so that it takes months to complete the checks.
Do you think it's okay to increase the requirements and the periodic checks then cut staffing so that those checks fall by the wayside while the benefits or voter registration lapses?
Republicans are doing exactly the thing that Americans hate most about government: setting up requirements very difficult, if not impossible, to complete.
Another problem is MAGAt lies. They create a problem that is virtually non-existent, such as voter fraud, and then pack on a ton of requirements that forces most people to just give up and go without even though they are eligible. IMO, that's dishonest to the extreme since it strips Americans of their rights such as voting.
ThatOwlWoman
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"But the poor will always be with us." - Reichwing excuse for doing their best to ignore the poor.
Dutch Uncle
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or, worse, make them poorer.