George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
To fund Trump’s expiring tax cuts for the wealthy, the GOP is proposing a massive $715 billion cut to Medicaid. They’re calling it reform, but make no mistake: it’s just another transfer of wealth from those who have the least to those who have the most. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/medicaid-cuts-work-requirements-scam
Republicans Seek To Cut Medicaid By Imposing Work Requirements

Republicans are lying about what’s driving their Medicaid cuts

The Big Picture
May 16, 2025 at 5:46pmWeb
Show threadStephen Elliott~BuckleyMay 16, 2025

@georgetakei

25% wealth tax/year, dropping to 5% when they're down to $78m

Or...

Show threadGregory VanderlaanMay 16, 2025
@georgetakei and they want to cut food stamps as well... Obviously that will encourage more shoplifting... Because if I had a hungry child I would feed it no matter what... And if I had to grab food and run out of the grocery store... I'll do it... Any parent would!
Show threadcqd_sosMay 16, 2025

@georgetakei

Considering how much of a big no-no the idea of wealth redistribution is in the US, it's kind of funny to see it actually happen that often. In a one-way direction.

Show threadRodrigo SilvaMay 16, 2025
@georgetakei I fear the US is becoming the Matrix. People are slowly changing into being just batteries for the elites.
Show threadStephen Elliott~BuckleyMay 16, 2025

@rodrigo_silva @georgetakei

They're already there

But everyone can be a Neo!

Show threadPaul AnomalyMay 16, 2025
@georgetakei #weareserfs