silence7New York Got $80 Million for Migrants. The White House Took It Back.
Wait a second, the federal government takes money back from New York City, but Trump and Musk are running around cutting every program in site and nobody is talking about refunding the taxpayers? Gtfo…
They are working on a tax cut bill.
I don’t want a tax cut. I wanna reimbursement because the truth is, we authorized our government to spend that money years ago. In some cases like USAID -we authorized the spending of that money decades ago.  if the United States government doesn’t want to spend that money anymore than there should’ve been legislature, but also they don’t get a free check to just spend it on whatever the fuck they want. They should have to pass new legislation before they spend any more taxpayer money on new projects. And since they haven’t passed any new legislation, they should give us our money back. 
if we set the presidents that the government can change, budget funding strategy like this, it would allow the government to raise billions of dollars for one purpose , and then suddenly take that billion dollars, and spend it on something that it wasn’t originally meant for.
It doesn’t work that way.
Explain it to me then…
We have a huge deficit. A refund might make some sense if we end up with a surplus. We are nowhere near that.
The fact that we have a deficit is immaterial to me. Just cause we have debts doesn’t mean the Gov can keep the money AND cut the programs. Rules on the books for new taxes are in place for a reason, if they aren’t going to use the tax money for its intended purpose, give it back…or pull the Senate and House together to authorize the new spending. BTW, they would have to tell us where that new spending is, and I don’t think Trump wants to do that, I think he wants to just keep the money like it’s his own, and loan it out in exchange for favors down the road.
Disagree completely. Not sure how you can say deficit is immaterial. Makes no sense whatsoever.
So, because we have a deficit the President can do whatever they want with our money? Cause thats what Trump/Musk seem to be doing.
They are looking to pass a tax cut bill.
So does the deficit matter or not? Tax cuts will make the deficit worse, not better.
The combination of lower tax and cut government spending is good.
Hope you’re wealthy, and never fall on hard times, and never get taken advantage of by someone more powerful than you.
It is important for DOGE to go through the government expenditures and find the waste and fraud so we as tax payers won’t get taken advantage of.
Hope people can save more for rainy days with the lower taxes.
It is important for rich people to have lower taxes so they are happy ❤️
Not sure why you are obsessed with rich people.
Trump ran budget deficits every year he was president, added trillions to the national debt with a tax giveaway to the wealthiest humans in the history of our planet, and before he was president a second time was trying to make Republicans shut down the government if the debt ceiling wasn’t eliminated entirely. Don’t hold your breath waiting for those tax cuts to trickle down, or for any cuts to ‘defense’ which is nearly half of all discretionary spending, the GOP plan is to further increase defense spending with $1.5 trillion in spending cuts which is not even half of their proposed $4.5 trillion tax cut.
Do you feel played for a fool yet?
The Democrats pretty much never reverse Republican tax cuts, because they actually like these tax cuts. They know trickle down economics works even though they can’t say it out loud.
So you agree tax cuts for the rich are bad? In that case I would recommend supporting progressive candidates instead of simping for the people who enacted them. Pointing out corporate Democrats exist and vote with Republicans to protect their shared donors is valid, as long as you can recognize that Republicans cry about the deficit whenever they are not in power, and when in power spend like drunken sailors, increase military spending, and then continue to use the deficit they grew as a cudgel to dismantle only the parts of the administrative state they disagree with. I’m not that stupid, and I doubt you are either.
I like the tax cuts
I too like having a service provide be intentionally under funded, allowing essential services to be running super lean so that they can’t function effectively. It’s very efficient
Their efficiencies are so bad and they wasted so much money on stupid spendings. They are actually way over funded right now.
According to who?
According to the American majority.
Source?
Perhaps left leaning poll, 68% of voters support Trump cutting government spending
That source doesn’t say anything about the services being over funded. Again do you have a source?
68% support cutting government spending. That is all you need to know.
I too like having a service provide be intentionally under funded, allowing essential services to be running super lean so that they can’t function effectively. It’s very efficient
If trickle down economics works explain this
Explain what? I see the current poverty rate is very similar to the 1980 level.
Exactly, nothing has trickled down.
It did trickled down significantly.
Poverty rate is relative. If poverty rate doesn’t increase and GDP grow more than normal, then in absolute terms it is better for lower and middle class. That is exactly what happened. See the chart below.
Whoops wrong again
Hard to read this chart. The poverty rate trend and US GDP as a % of G7 GDP is very clear.
Yes, it is very clear that trickle down economy doesn’t and never worked.
Opposite. It is. Very clear it is working well.
Trickle down working to you means the poorest Americans have not increased in net worth and the wealthiest Americans are getting richer? How is that wealth, which is being funneled to to top, “trickling down”. Maybe turn your phone right side up so you can see how the graphs are supposed to look.
GDP grow faster helps everyone.
KairuByteCan you actually explain why you think that?
How does a faster growing GDP help someone in poverty?
We are talking about relative poverty. A person in poverty in the US is much better than a person in poverty in North Korea.
No one is talking about North Korea. We are talking about poverty in America then vs now. Trying to move the goalpost to include a completely unrelated datapoint is pointless.
I didn’t move the goalposts. I mean to show you why economic growth can help the poor. US has much higher economic growth than other developed countries in the last four decades.
That doesn’t help people in poverty.
You’re not explaining how a faster growing GDP helps someone in poverty. Do you not understand what the word poverty means?
Relative poverty rate didn’t go up from 1980. The key is word is “relative”. With faster economic growth, the people in poverty are much better off now compared to 1980.
No, they aren’t. Poverty is poverty. You don’t get better off because your neighbor has more money. That’s just not how poverty works.
RememberTheApollo_Funny how dems have been able to balance budgets and wind up with a surplus without engaging in wholesale butchery of programs that help and protect people.
You do notice that, don’t you? Things that are being slashed are things that protect you, education, and feed people? Why not advocate for taxing the fuck out of corporations and billionaires instead of engaging in waving in the direction of “the deficit”.
Things that are being attacked are the stupid spendings that American majority don’t want to spend money on.
Says you.
Look at Trump’s approval rating. What I said is basically the opinion of the American majority.
The appropriate polls to use in this case is approved rating, not favorability.
Take a hike. I’m not here to jump through your semantic hoops.