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'Morally Bankrupt' Budget: After $1.5 Trillion Gift to Rich, Trump Demands $1.7 Trillion in Safety Net Cuts


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"Millions of Americans will lose access to life-saving programs because the GOP gave $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich."

 

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Staff members display recently released printed copies of U.S. President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget at the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill February 12, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

 

Those wondering how President Donald Trump plans to pay for the $1.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich he signed into law last year got their answer on Monday, when the White House unveiled its 2019 budget (pdf) blueprint that calls for $1.7 trillion in cuts to crucial safety net programs over the next decade—including $237 billion in cuts to Medicare alone.

 

While imposing "severe austerity" on domestic programs that primarily benefit poor and middle class Americans, Trump's proposal also aims to hike the Pentagon's budget to $716 billion—a seven percent increase from his 2018 request—and provide $18 billion for "the wall."

 

"The Trump budget is morally bankrupt and bad economic policy," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote on Twitter Monday shortly after the White House proposal was made public.

 

 

 

Critics were quick to note that such severe cuts to healthcare programs that serve the elderly, the disabled, and the poor will likely come "with a body count."

 

"Millions of Americans will lose access to life-saving programs because the GOP gave $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich," the advocacy group Tax March wrote on Twitter.

 

 

In addition to calling for potentially devastating cuts to healthcare, food stamps, and other components of America's already-withering safety net, Trump's budget also calls for large cuts to environmental programs—including $598.5 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

 

"President Trump's budget is nothing short of devastating for all Americans who value clean air, safe drinking water, and protected public lands," Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement on Monday.

 

Though presidential budget requests are non-binding, they are a strong indicator of the White House's goals and values, as Indivisible's senior policy manager Chad Bolt observed while analyzing the newly released document.

 

Trump's "budget proposal is just a proposal, but it's a clear statement of his priorities," Bolt noted. "Making deep cuts to programs families rely on has been a priority since Day 1."

 

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I feel so bad for the people who are keeping track of all of Trump's lies. Anyway, get ready for tons of people to lose everything because Trump and the Republicans had to give goodies to all their rich donors. Draining the swamp my ass. The middle class got temporary tax cuts though, so that makes everything okay. imstupid.pngimstupid.png

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There is nothing moral about stealing 1.5 trillion dollars from America's productive classes and giving it to the Free S**t Army to buy votes. This sounds like a win-win budget for the majority of Americans.

 

The "free shit army" are mostly red states. imstupid.png

 

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/

 

No one who pays taxes are gonna complain about tax cuts.

 

lol

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/12/more-than-400-millionaires-tell-congress-dont-cut-our-taxes/?utm_term=.8a9b1b6813ee

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/04/billionaire-warren-buffett-i-dont-need-a-tax-cut.html

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They all buy votes, but Democrats are totally dependent on doing so.  

 

Again, most "free shit" goes to red states. Your argument holds no water. Democrats are much more supportive of social safety programs, but Republicans are actually more reliant on them. 0u0plz.png

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And people laugh at Bernie for want to increase the tax of the rich, so called 'expert' is not optimist with Bernie's tax policy and media labeled him as a communist, don't you realize, media is own by rich people.

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@0:30

 

Lisa: As you know. we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump. How bad is it, Secretary Van Houten?

Milhouse: We're broke.


Read more at: http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=43

 

The Simpsons predicted this 18 years ago. imstupid.png 1&t=22103

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Trump doesn't care.  He's shown everyone that from the start.  He's been upfront that he plans to pocket as much as he can for himself an the other rich elite as he can before leaves office.  He's surrounded himself with people who can make sure that happens.

 

Part of the reason so many none rich people back these things is because they have the assumption that all this aid is being consumed by mostly black people when that isn't true. 

 

It'll happen.  Whatever he wants will happen. It's already happening. He's proven that.  His supporters are growing and they are happy to be out in the open now.

 

He also doesn't care about a body count.  They are poor, minorities and in his eyes hold no value because they don't have money.

 

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in a perfect world, only his supporters would be affected by these decisions.

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Wealthy people do not care about poor people. Hell, they can't even understand them. They're so far separated from the average person, they may as well be from another planet.

 

I fear for my life and the lives of those around me a little more every day here...

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