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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

Trump-GOP Budget Bill Will Give Top 1% Over $1 Trillion in Tax Breaks: Analysis

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Trump-GOP Budget Bill Will Give Top 1% Over $1 Trillion in Tax Breaks: Analysis

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Trump-GOP Budget Bill Will Give Top 1% Over $1 Trillion in Tax Breaks: Analysis | Common Dreams
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The amount set to flow to a "tiny sliver of affluent families" over the next decade is roughly equal to the Medicaid cuts included in the Republican bill, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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    I’m glad that the majority of working-class voters are getting what they voted for.

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      “But one day I could be that rich!” - guy who will never be that rich

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        Guy who rents a 40 year old double wide

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    So they can return it to us with job creation and raises, right?

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      Yeah it’s gonna trickle down like that

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        Hah, they completely dropped that pretence. Why go through all the trouble of lying about it if you can just give your constituents the finger instead?

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        Trickle *up.

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      Trillion-dollar taxpayer giveaways to billionaires also bring down the deficit, because reasons.

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    Thank god they desperately need that money to pave over the graves of the poor that are going to die without medical care.

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