880 billion dollar for would literally be eliminating Medicaid, hope everyone who voted trump and Republicans are good with this, especially those who are poor and have kids with special needs.
Removing regulations and dismantling the government doesn’t help anyone but the rich.
I once stumbled on a discussion, on Reddit I think (or maybe it was Twitter) from a small-time farmer who basically admitted that most farmers in his position realized regulations were important and could be a force for good, but large agri-businesses constantly flouted rules and never got anything more than a slap on the wrist when caught. A sort of “rules for thee, not for me” situation. And so all the small time farmers had to cut corners and ignore regulations to remain competitive and viable.
Overly complex regulations could increase the barrier of entry for newer companies, small time entrepreneurs, etc. In some instances it can actually be in the interest of large, established companies to maintain overly complex regulatory environments as it keeps competition out of the market.
Insightful simplification of regulations that increases their effectiveness while reducing unnecessary burdens might be feasible, and also, beneficial for society as a whole.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we’re going to get that with this administration. They’re just going to smash and break, and at best, they might realize they broke some important things and perhaps repair it to a limited extent.
edit: clarified a few points.
They say that as if destroying programs that benefit the common people and instituting policies that benefit the 1% are some sort of unexpected consequences rather than the exact and explicit point.
This won’t benefit the 1% in the long run. Having a stable government of laws is what made their dollars worth more than rubles.
Of course it won’t, but they’re incapable of thinking it through that clearly.
Hierarchical systems like capitalism effectively reward and thus select for psychopaths who are laser-focused on their short-term, shallow self-interest, since they have the fewest constraints on the choices they’re willing to make. Anyone else might refrain from an otherwise effective course of action if they recognize that it’s ultimately destructive or self-defeating or immoral or unethical, but the psychopaths who only think in the short term won’t, so all other things being more or less equal, they have an advantage.
That’s a lot of what we’re seeing right now. Trump and Musk are making so much headway toward destroying the United States in large part because people are having a hard time working out how to even respond, since their actions are so corrupt and so destructive and so self-serving. They’ve jumped right past any ordinary notion of corrupt and self-serving and destructive to a brazen and egregious level that for many really is, in a simple, practical sense of the term, “unthinkable.”
And yes - crushing the common people in order to maximize the wealth that can be extracted from them and the privilege granted to the wealthy few is self-defeating in the long term, since the common people are the ultimate source of that wealth. But that won’t stop people like Musk and Trump, because they’re quite simply neither sane nor rational enough to let it.
I liken it to people living in penthouses in apartment buildings cannibalizing the lower floors to expand their penthouses. Not only are the buildings eventually going to collapse under the weight of the penthouses, but they’re actually hastening that by weakening the lower floors.
But Musk and Trump and the like just aren’t equipped to see that, or to restrain themselves if they do. So that’s not only what they will do, but what they are doing, right now, this minute.
Part of the strategy is to exhaust us by blasting our supposed impotence at us perpetually. Don’t fall for it though.
What’s fucking wild is Medicaid helps rural communities more than them big cities.
Are they sure they want to piss off people who have more guns than teeth? This is gonna be Luigi ×500.
I like your optimism. I don’t think anything could change these people’s minds though. Somehow they will be convinced Obamacare took away their Medicaid, and Trump is working his ass off to fix it, but all these regulations and taxes and government employees are gumming up his operation.
Just watch… Like I said I like the optimism. Hopefully one day I can call some of the hundreds of thousands of hicks in my state comrades.
I think its more likely than people on here think. I hear whispers within the party. Theyre about to be rudely awakened I think with this medicare social security stuff
They’re also trying as hard as they can to piss off the military. I don’t get it
41% of births and the biggest portion of maternity care are covered under Medicaid. Highest is Louisiana at 64%. Combine this with abortion restrictions and potential loss of access to labor and miscarriage related drugs and you’re looking at lots more dead pregnant people, dead fetuses, and dead infants and far fewer rural hospitals handling any sort of reproductive care.
Because Republicans think that that 64% is mostly black and brown people getting a handout.
This is precisely the outcome that they desire.
Almost certainly, it shall be achieved.
Live babies in poverty make great dead soldiers though. Have they forgotten this?
They don’t care. One last cash grab.
Don’t worry, many people in those situations will blame Obamacare when they get the bill (Edit: \s on the don’t worry. Do worry, because this will absolutely happen)
Thanks for catching up to the rest of the class. 🙄
Isn’t that the entire GOP platform, in a nutshell?
Sure, they have to throw red meat to racist dumbasses to get them to vote for them…
Don’t worry, they’ll destroy a lot more than that. The entire US economy is about to be absolutely shredded.
Doesn’t pretty much everything disproportionately benefit the 1% by definition?
Bernie wouldn’t
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Normal GOP budget.
Hurt the poor and reward the rich?
Mission Accomplished!!!
/s
The thing I don’t really get is that we’ve got a few people on their way to being trillionaires. That’s more money and assets than the human brain is capable of fathoming, I can guarantee it. What’s even the point? Anything they could possibly want or need is provisioned for, they’ve got enough money to do all the fun little side projects their hearts desire, and they’ve still got far more money beyond that. They literally can’t even give it away fast enough if they tried. What on earth is more tax breaks for the wealthy going to achieve, even for the wealthy? It just feels pointlessly evil at this point.
Remember that those evil billionaires don’t actually care about the money itself. If they did, they would have stopped at $100 million or some much lower number, because that’s already more money than anyone could ever spend. To them it’s about power, prestige, and control. They are addicts, and they’ll never give up the chance for more.
I think they’re like mold or cancer cells, or even a fire. You can’t decide to be a billionaire just like a plant species can’t decide to grow in crack in the pavement. It’s a system of interactions that decides that. Pure chance and a lot of failures that had as much right to succeed as any other.
Billionaires are byproducts of our system weaved into a physical human body. It has a human life to confuse you and camouflage what it really is. It has a human brain and human emotions to generate reasons why it deserves to exist. It looks and feels like a person.
Reminds me of mandrakes from Harry Potter. They scream like they’re alive but they’re just there to be harvested.
Reminds me of mandrakes from Harry Potter. They scream like they’re alive but they’re just there to be harvested.
Funnily enough, this is exactly how billionaires view us.
It’s a mental illness
It’s a mental illness that is worshiped by an unfortunately large population of people.
Right. It’s just hoarding, but it’s money, so it’s ok apparently?
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature of reinforcing the hierarchy the conservatives all believe in.
Yes the GOP is made of GOP
What happened to “The American Way” that Superman was fighting for? Would he be ashamed now?
What happened to “The American Way” that Superman was fighting for?
The same thing that happened to truth and justice.
Superman was always fighting for people … rich white people … you know Americans.
/s /sarcasm /this_is_sarcasm
