Politics

727 readers

27 users here now

For civil discussion of US politics. Be excellent to each other.

Rule 1: Posts have the following requirements:
▪️ Post articles about the US only

▪️ Title must match the article headline

▪️ Recent (Past 30 Days)

▪️ No Screenshots/links to other social media sites or link shorteners

Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. One or two small paragraphs are okay.

Rule 3: Articles based on opinion (unless clearly marked and from a serious publication-No Fox News or equal), misinformation or propaganda will be removed.

Rule 4: Keep it civil. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a jerk. It’s not acceptable to say another user is a jerk. Cussing is fine.

Rule 5: Be excellent to each other. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, will be removed.

Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.

Rule 7. No conjecture type posts (this could, might, may, etc.). Only factual. If the headline is wrong, clarify within the body. More info

Bookmark Vault of Trump's First Term

USAfacts.org

The Alt-Right Playbook

Media owners, CEOs and/or board members

Video: Macklemore's new song critical of Trump and Musk is facing heavy censorship across major platforms.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works

102

CBO Report Shows Trump-GOP Bill Would Spur Unparalleled Wealth Transfer From Poor to Rich (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the Republican legislation speeding through the U.S. House of Representatives would cut household resources for the bottom 10% of Americans while delivering gains to the wealthiest in the form of tax breaks.

The CBO also said Tuesday that the Republican reconciliation package, which Trump has championed, would trigger automatic cuts to Medicare spending—reductions that the nonpartisan body did not factor into its distributional analysis.

The CBO's analysis also did not include the impact of a tentative deal to boost the cap on state and local tax deductions (SALT), a change that would primarily benefit wealthy households.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Water is wet, sky is blue, only the rich get their due.

[–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Oh glob, don't start that argument about whether water is wet again.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (6 children)

It's astounding how many people are in denial of the fact that water is indeed wet by any logical definition.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

It really is. And such a stupid fucking thing to try and be pedantic about

load more comments (5 replies)