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    return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 days 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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    return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 days ago
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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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        Yep that’s totally what they did last time

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        😐

        Right?

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      Trickle down economics.

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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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      Yes erm I’d like to order a burger with a side of french revol I mean fries

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        Will you look at that, we’re all out of fries! We only serve French revolutions. *starts spinning wildly in a barrette*

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      Reaganomics 2.0

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      Is it too late to eat the rich? Asking for a friend.

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