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.

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.