If huge cuts for everybody in order to preserve tax breaks for the wealthy seems like a bad deal to you, let your Senators know

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    18 hours ago

    I feel like some of this is fundamentally wrong. Like it says such and such saves money, but cutting that program costs untold amounts as a consequence.

    Like you can save money by not paying your phone bill, but then you don’t have a working phone.

    So the nyt probably sucks by not making that clear to readers.

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      2 hours ago

      Bonus, a lot of the benefits to billionaires occur immediately and the costs will appear later, so it will look (to the blind) like Trump did great and the next guy fucked up bad.

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      These are strictly the numbers as they are on paper. The CBO and other groups USED to be in charge of doing the long-term math to find the real costs of bills, but of course they’ve been kneecapped to do that good work.

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    16 hours ago

    GOP-lead federal US government just obliterated 7 billion dollars of taxpayers’ funds on an ineffectual theatrical Big Bombing Boondoggle against Iran’s nonexistent nuclear bomb building program—savings beyond belief!!!