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Agree, but the Pubs won't do that. I think the odds of avoiding a shutdown, and maybe a prolonged one, are slim.This upcoming budget negotiation is perhaps the only true way that Democrats can wield any meaningful power for the time being. The Republicans are so fractious that they're going to need Democratic votes in order to get the budget passed. They don't have the votes to get anything passed otherwise. Not one single Democrat should vote to help the GOP until or unless this insane unconstitutional crime spree by Musk and "DOGE" is halted.
Trump Tax Priorities Total $5 to $11 Trillion
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Trump Tax Priorities Total $5 to $11 Trillion | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
2025-02-06-In a closed-door meeting with House Leadership today President Trump reportedly outlined his tax priorities.www.crfb.org
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In a closed-door meeting with House Leadership today President Trump reportedly outlined his tax priorities. According to press reports, they included extending the expiring pieces of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA); expanding the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction; enacting tax breaks for goods made in America; cutting taxes on income from tips, overtime pay, and Social Security benefits; and eliminating tax breaks for carried interest and stadium owners.
Depending on the details of these proposals, our rough estimate is that a package of this nature would:
Such a package could also lead to significant income shiftingand tax avoidance, weaken the Medicare and possibly Social Security trust funds, dramatically boost interest costs, and increase the risk of a debt spiral. …”
- Reduce revenue by $5.0 trillion to $11.2 trillion over ten years.
- Lower revenue by 1.3 to 3.0 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
- Boost debt to between 132 and 149 percent of GDP by 2035, if not offset, compared to nearly 100 percent today and 118 percent under current law.
Agree with you, unfortunately. It doesn't look promising, that's for sure. If that happens, my goodness, if there isn't a blue wave in the midterms, the Democratic Party might truly not have a pulse. It's going to get really ugly really quickly for a lot of everyday Americans, I'm afraid.Agree, but the Pubs won't do that. I think the odds of avoiding a shutdown, and maybe a prolonged one, are slim.
Jeffries should respond like General McAuliffe.Mike Johnson says Democrats 'unresponsive' ahead of shutdown deadline
But the House's top appropriators say otherwise.
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Plenty of liberals and Democratic voters have been saying Democrats in Congress are comatose, so unresponsiveness is to be expected.
This is what you get when you vote for the party that openly campaigned on burning everything to the ground, and then brought in the guy who destroyed Twitter to do it.Agree with you, unfortunately. It doesn't look promising, that's for sure. If that happens, my goodness, if there isn't a blue wave in the midterms, the Democratic Party might truly not have a pulse. It's going to get really ugly really quickly for a lot of everyday Americans, I'm afraid.
Maybe the board conservatives have all been rounded up and shipped off to Gitmo?Surely any moment now, since our Great Trans National Nightmare has ended, we will start hearing from our "BUT MAH FISCAL CONSERVATISM" Trump voters who can explain to us morons why their guy's proposal of slashing revenue-generation while spending like a drunken sailor is going to make America great again!
Do they perform those high-falutin' taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries there?Maybe the board conservatives have all been rounded up and shipped off to Gitmo?
Of course not, but if you make at least five posts per day about how GURLZ SPORTZ are being RUINT by the ten or so transgender athletes across the country, they give you an extra helping of Mississippi Mud Pie for dessert.Do they perform those high-falutin' taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries there?