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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElizabeth Warren: "Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?"
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'
IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated
W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?
WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-15T16:00:09.416Z
IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated
W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?
Irish_Dem
(81,719 posts)They do not want one penny to go to healthcare.
Johonny
(26,320 posts)Just as the GOP complained about for years, but it will have been created mostly due to themselves... when will fiscal conservatives finally wake up about the GOP? Never I assume because fiscal conservatives are fake as shit.
Irish_Dem
(81,719 posts)They do this all the time.
They rob the country blind, run up the debt, and then cut all services.
Dems get back in power and fill up the piggy bank again.
Rinse, repeat.
Seinan Sensei
(1,578 posts)OMGWTF
(5,166 posts)They. Want. Us. Dead.
Irish_Dem
(81,719 posts)We are all useless eaters taking up space.
They don't want or need us.
Dr. T
(656 posts)he wanted the U. S. government to be so small that you could drown it in a bathtub.
I interpreted that to mean he wanted to cut every social program that helped the middle class and the poor so that the rich didn't have to pay taxes. But, defense spending was okay. He didn't want the government to provide services to help Americans with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Getting back to the deficit, I think of it this way. If I'm heavily in debt, I find a way to increase my income. Today's conservatives spend and spend and spend while decreasing the government's income.
Irish_Dem
(81,719 posts)Yes the GOP goal is to get rid of all essential public services, such as education, infrastructure, and social safety nets, medicare, social security.
Yes the rich don't want to pay taxes. They believe all money belongs to them.
And they don't need or want us. We serve no purpose in their lives.
Dr. T
(656 posts)to create the modern equivalent of slave labor.
Grover Norquist. There's a special place in hell awaiting his arrival.
Thanks for the clarification, Irish Dem. Pint 'o Guinness for that.
Irish_Dem
(81,719 posts)The rich are inventing AI and robots.
They don't even need human slave labor any more.
So they are getting rid of healthcare, vaccines, food banks, etc.
Merci for the pint.
MyOwnPeace
(17,588 posts)He and his wife have donated over ONE MILLION DOLLARS to tRumps campaigns.
Johonny
(26,320 posts)That is takes in. How is massive deficit spending suppose to make me happy.
More to the point inflation is up, and tax cuts can be inflationary...
SergeStorms
(20,664 posts)nt
yellow dahlia
(6,122 posts)Answer: His lips are moving.
And btw, he is always obnoxious to listen to, because he is a thug and talks like one. But did he seem a little inebriated to anyone else?
liberalla
(11,147 posts)MLWR
(1,053 posts)Passages
(4,243 posts)What's in it for me?