A Boring Dystopia

The title of this is a misleading simplification. $4.5 tn is not "Tax Giveaway to the Rich". It's a maximum cap on total tax cuts that could be in this budget. It is likely to include renewal of 2017 income tax cuts and increased child tax credit - both of these were popular and not just "for rich".

They may also raise SALT cap which benefits higher income people from states with high property taxes. Living in one myself, I can tell you that you don't need a mansion in a top school district to pay much more than $10k in property taxes. So this one is not just for billionaires for sure, but maybe from upper middle class.

There are promises Trump made to eliminate income taxes on tips and social security, which are obviously not beneficial only to rich. But I heard it would cost a lot, especially SS one. Not sure if $4.5tn is enough.

Unfortunately, it looks like proposed spending cuts to Medicaid and food stamps are favored by GOP and may be easy to pass, but they don't cover tax cuts by a big margin. So they can hurt people in need, and still have to balloon national debt even more.

MAGA will blame this on Democrats.

Well, he promised tax breaks. If anyone had the illusion that this would benefit lower income brackets, then congratulations: you have officially become senile. Because it follows the same path he did with the last tax breaks: More money for the rich, less for the rest.

This infuriates me more than anything else, but the Republicans were very clear on their intentions and were elected democratically.

It sucks that we don't have a legit opposition party that actually cares about the poor and working class.

America will get what they voted for. Fucked.

Who could have possibly foreseen this hilariously predictable outcome?!

America had a class war. And Americans lost.

What the fuck did people think would happen to all the cost savings that doge is supposedly doing? You think that money was just going to sit in government bank accounts or something?

"Well the 60yr old man that blew his body out working hard jobs to raise his family that are now unable to buy homes despite graduating college with tech degrees, can just rejoin the work force with his withering body and broken psyche." -Evil probably

Everyday Americans will not stand for these games

I got a bridge to sell this guy!

American friends, what are you waiting for to deploy your guillotines?

Sure we are getting fucked all over the world but it seems that you are having it way worse...

That’s $4.5 trillion that will trickle down to all of us, any day now, just you wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, and wait…

Ah yes, republicans with the ol’ trickle-down economics… always works, right?! Right?!

‘Want to be slightly richer, while we speed run a revolution?’

I don't know what to think about that. I don't think that low income Republican voters will feel the face eating of the leopards they voted for as what it is.

And I'm not even American, but I can see that this exact same thing is going to happen here in Europe/Germany as well. People will vote for the extreme right parties that have all their propaganda on how they are going to give money to the small people and make the country more secure - and at the same time their political programs and past behavior screams "we will give tax cuts mainly to the ultra rich and never cared about the low income people".

And they still get voted for. We just love us some good old fashioned fascism. Maybe I need to change my mindset and just be like "let's gooooo"

Time to fuckin do something

Know how we can directly trace the enshitification of the United States in many ways back to the Reagan administration?

Yeah, we just did that to ourselves again. But probably worse.

Realistically, we're going to spend the remainder of our lives witnessing the further enshitification of this nation.