The BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL - PASSED THE HOUSE

[LumRaiderFan]

57 minutes ago, baddog said:

Like crude oil

lol, yep.

Funny how the stock market, social security and whatever else you want to name is being destroyed by the Trump administration.

And when these false prophesies don’t come to pass, they continue with the predictions like no one noticed.

[OlDawg]

Not a fan of omnibus Bills. I think they’re a cop out by Congress and always lead to pork. That said, I wanted the tax cuts to stay & reduce spending to pay for them.

Reps are gonna have a hard time explaining because taxes never went up again from the 2017 cuts. People won’t notice a big change except for—possibly—medical. Dems & media will have a field day with that. Grandma will be dying daily.

[Boyz N Da Hood]

C'mon midterms! GRIDLOCK

[CardinalBacker]

It’s math. We had massive tax cuts in 2017, then the debt exploded. 

But since it had the opposite effect last time (increased debt, NOT economic growth that would solve the debt problem), the solution is to keep those cuts in place, and cut even more?

 

It’s like giving my first wife a credit card. 
 

At some point we’ve got to realize that we simply aren’t paying enough in taxes to pay for all of the things that we want. So you’re going to have to decide whether to go up on taxes or give up your freebies. 
 

You know what’s funny? Nobody ever says “I receive this benefit… I think we can prune that program back.”  It’s always “we need to make our cuts over THERE… that program from which I receive no benefit.”

That’s my question for you all… what program that you support (or from which you receive, or have received a benefit) do you feel could sustain budget cuts?

[5GallonBucket]

10 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

It’s math. We had massive tax cuts in 2017, then the debt exploded. 

But since it had the opposite effect last time (increased debt, NOT economic growth that would solve the debt problem), the solution is to keep those cuts in place, and cut even more?

 

It’s like giving my first wife a credit card. 
 

At some point we’ve got to realize that we simply aren’t paying enough in taxes to pay for all of the things that we want. So you’re going to have to decide whether to go up on taxes or give up your freebies. 
 

You know what’s funny? Nobody ever says “I receive this benefit… I think we can prune that program back.”  It’s always “we need to make our cuts over THERE… that program from which I receive no benefit.”

That’s my question for you all… what program that you support (or from which you receive, or have received a benefit) do you feel could sustain budget cuts?

I have 5 kids….i ve never understood the child tax credit….my kids my responsibility.

 

[AggiesAreWe]

9 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

I have 5 kids….i ve never understood the child tax credit….my kids my responsibility.

 

THIS!!!!!

[thetragichippy]

24 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

I have 5 kids….i ve never understood the child tax credit….my kids my responsibility.

 

As part of my divorce, I fought and received joint custody of my Son. The legal arrangement was a week at my house, a week at hers. My agreement I made to my Son was he could stay as long or as short as he wanted at my house.  At 16 he decided he wanted to live with me. I let her take the tax credit all 17 years.....like you said, my kid, my responsibility.