Trump/gop smoke and mirrors

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PART XI (CONTINUED): TRUMP: "Whether you voted for me or not, I will be America's champion.”

Trump rolls back US water pollution controls - BBC News
"The Trump administration is scrapping protections for America's streams and wetlands, repealing Barack Obama's Waters of the United States regulation.

The move will dismantle federal protections for more than half of wetlands and hundreds of small waterways in the US.

... critics say the change will be destructive - part of Mr Trump's wider assault on environmental protections.

Under the new regulations, landowners and property developers will be able to pour pesticides, fertilisers and other pollutants directly into millions of miles of the nation's waterways for the first time in decades.

The administration's new rules replace the Waters of the United States regulations put in place during the Obama administration. Mr Trump vowed as soon as he took office to repeal the regulations.

The new rules are already facing court challenges from environmental groups and Democratic-led states. "This will be the biggest loss of clean water protection the country has ever seen," Blan Holman, a federal water policy specialist at the Southern Environmental Law Center, told the New York Times.

"This puts drinking water for millions of Americans at risk of contamination from unregulated pollution. This is not just undoing the Obama rule. This is stripping away protections that were put in place in the '70s and '80s that Americans have relied on for their health," he said.

Since taking office, Mr Trump has slashed regulations on oil and gas development, weakened fuel emission standards for automobiles and proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act - a law credited with keeping hundreds of species from going extinct.

"We have some of the cleanest air and cleanest water on Earth," Trump said.

The US is the world's second largest emitter of greenhouse gases. A report found carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4% in 2018 - the largest spike in eight years - after three years of decline."


Donald Trump.... making not only America, but the WORLD, GRATE again.

 

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PART XI (CONTINUED): TRUMP: "Whether you voted for me or not, I will be America's champion.”

Trump rolls back US water pollution controls - BBC News
"The Trump administration is scrapping protections for America's streams and wetlands, repealing Barack Obama's Waters of the United States regulation.

The move will dismantle federal protections for more than half of wetlands and hundreds of small waterways in the US.

... critics say the change will be destructive - part of Mr Trump's wider assault on environmental protections.

Under the new regulations, landowners and property developers will be able to pour pesticides, fertilisers and other pollutants directly into millions of miles of the nation's waterways for the first time in decades.

The administration's new rules replace the Waters of the United States regulations put in place during the Obama administration. Mr Trump vowed as soon as he took office to repeal the regulations.

The new rules are already facing court challenges from environmental groups and Democratic-led states. "This will be the biggest loss of clean water protection the country has ever seen," Blan Holman, a federal water policy specialist at the Southern Environmental Law Center, told the New York Times.

"This puts drinking water for millions of Americans at risk of contamination from unregulated pollution. This is not just undoing the Obama rule. This is stripping away protections that were put in place in the '70s and '80s that Americans have relied on for their health," he said.

Since taking office, Mr Trump has slashed regulations on oil and gas development, weakened fuel emission standards for automobiles and proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act - a law credited with keeping hundreds of species from going extinct.

"We have some of the cleanest air and cleanest water on Earth," Trump said.

The US is the world's second largest emitter of greenhouse gases. A report found carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4% in 2018 - the largest spike in eight years - after three years of decline."


Donald Trump.... making not only America, but the WORLD, GRATE again.

What's amazing is how this runs almost completely under the radar. Most Americans remain clueless how much the monster is laying the groundwork for a horrific future for nothing but profits for the few. Privatize the gain, socialize the loss.

To that end Trump is forcing science out of government. If you aren't an industry hack willing to subvert the mission of whatever agency to Wall Street we have no use for you.

Science ranks grow thin in Trump administration

America will never recover from Trump and his deplorables.

 

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What's amazing is how this runs almost completely under the radar. Most Americans remain clueless how much the monster is laying the groundwork for a horrific future for nothing but profits for the few. Privatize the gain, socialize the loss.

To that end Trump is forcing science out of government. If you aren't an industry hack willing to subvert the mission of whatever agency to Wall Street we have no use for you.

Science ranks grow thin in Trump administration

America will never recover from Trump and his deplorables.

Exactly, Sargon. And it runs under the radar because of the normalizing and acceptance of the unacceptable on the part of many. and because Trump & Co. keep creating "boogie men" to DISTRACT their zombie constituency by getting their attention focused on some demon "other."

Trump is not only forcing science out of government. Like his pal Putin, he's forcing GOVERNMENT out of government. Or at least, any in government whose heads aren't completely UP HIS ASS.

The Birth of the Russian-American Oligarchy

 

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Exactly, Sargon. And it runs under the radar because of the normalizing and acceptance of the unacceptable on the part of many. and because Trump & Co. keep creating "boogie men" to DISTRACT their zombie constituency by getting their attention focused on some demon "other."

And how "great" the economy is doing as the Dow hits high after high as the thought of zero regulations and zero taxes causes the 1% daily devastating shivers of excitement. And the low-information idiots eat it up.

 

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The Birth of the Russian-American Oligarchy

From the article...

It’s about money, always. More importantly, it’s about tribe.

Tribe, and the sins committed in its name, not Trump, is why Republicans march in zombified lockstep.

It’s something that Russia has always understood, and exploited. As I write, Putin’s pimps, and pawns, are using it to take command of Northern Hemisphere nations soaked in the mythos of White Power.

That control has been a part of Eurocentric cultures since their founding. I wrote about the death throes of this white power for Huffington Post, back in 2016.

I was terribly wrong.

The Russians have grafted on to this cancer on the body politic. They’ve poured gasoline on it.

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Yep. All the bullshit about the democrats need an economic message for the Rust Belt is just that bullshit.

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From the article...

It’s about money, always. More importantly, it’s about tribe.

Tribe, and the sins committed in its name, not Trump, is why Republicans march in zombified lockstep.

It’s something that Russia has always understood, and exploited. As I write, Putin’s pimps, and pawns, are using it to take command of Northern Hemisphere nations soaked in the mythos of White Power.

That control has been a part of Eurocentric cultures since their founding. I wrote about the death throes of this white power for Huffington Post, back in 2016.

I was terribly wrong.

The Russians have grafted on to this cancer on the body politic. They’ve poured gasoline on it.

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Yep. All the bullshit about the democrats need an economic message for the Rust Belt is just that bullshit.

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Exactly. Trump really doesn't give a flying FUCK about "being a champion" not for middleclass Americans and certainly not for the poor,

not even those among his constituency, in SPITE of the bullshit he tell his rabid, bamboozled devotees.

HERE's the "America" Trump and his GOP cronies "champion."

How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...pushed-through-congress/ar-BBZhX3J?li=AAdBGzZ
"Cutting tax rates for companies like Apple and hundreds of other stocks they own was one of many ways Republican lawmakers enriched themselves after they passed the tax law, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of the 186-page law and members’ financial disclosure forms.

Democrats also stood to gain from the tax bill, though not one voted for it; all but 12 Republicans voted for the tax bill.

As part of the bill, Republicans approved tax breaks in 2017 for seven classes of assets many of the wealthier members of Congress held at the time, including

• partnerships,
• small corporations,
• real estate, and
• several esoteric investment vehicles.

While they sold the bill as a package of business and middle-class tax cuts that would not help the wealthy, the cuts likely saved members of Congress hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes collectively, while the corporate tax cut hiked the value of their holdings.

“It feels to me like a kleptocracy,” said Jeff Hauser, director of the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, DC."

 

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MAGGOT BRAINED MALEVOLENCE​

PART IV (CONTINUED): TRUMP: "I WILL SAVE MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY. I WILL LEAVE IT ALONE."

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https://news.yahoo.com/trump-administration-cuts-social-security-233903410.html
Trump administration cuts to Social Security disability benefits among the cruelest
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-administration-cuts-social-security-233903410.html
"Hardly a day goes by without the Trump administration finding a new way to slash the safety net.

But its latest proposal — which would cut Social Security disability benefits by $2.6 billion over 10 years — is one of the cruelest.

It would require millions of beneficiaries to re-prove their disability — and navigate a complex web of red tape and paperwork — every two years. Hundreds of thousands of people could lose benefits even though their condition has not changed.

We’ve seen this movie before, when the Reagan administration implemented a similar policy.

People with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, serious mental illness and even terminal cancer were notified they were “no longer disabled” and their benefits terminated.

All told, half a million people lost benefits. Thousands died, many by suicide.

President Ronald Reagan’s “disability purge” caused such suffering, it sparked a bipartisan revolt by 18 states that refused to implement it.

Ultimately, a rare unanimous vote by Congress ended the nightmarish policy in 1984."

 

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PART XII: TRUMP: "The American Dream is back: bigger, better and stronger than ever before. No one is benefitting more than America’s middle class.”

‘Just wrong’: Nobel Prize-winning economist destroys Trump’s boast about a ‘blue collar boom’ – Raw Story

"Donald Trump and his Republican allies have continued to insist that members of the working class have been among the greatest beneficiaries of the post-Great Recession economic recovery in the United States.

But Trump’s critics — from presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to economists Paul Krugman and Robert Reich — have countered that Trump’s economic policy has mainly benefitted the rich.

“At this point in an economic recovery — it’s been ten years since the Great Recession — labor markets get tight, unemployment gets lower, and that at last starts having wages go up,” Stiglitz explained. “The remarkable thing is how weak wages are, how weak the economy is, given that as a result of the tax bill, we have a $1 trillion deficit.”

The tax bill that Stiglitz is referring to is the GOP-sponsored Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts of 2017, which passed along partisan lines and lowered the corporate tax rate in the U.S. from 35% to 21%.

Critics of the law, including Krugman and Reich, have complained that while it greatly benefited millionaires and billionaires, it left the American working class out in the cold.

Trump’s description of the U.S. economy as being fabulous for the working class, according to Stiglitz, is “just wrong.”

Trump & the GOP... "making America 'great'.................. again."

 

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Pretty sure the smoke and mirrors are no longer helping.

Mitch McConnell hopes voters will forget about the sham impeachment trial by November

[ Republicans were always going to acquit President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial, no matter of how much damning information they received. So why consider new evidence that would only confirm his guilt?

That is the logic of Sen. Lamar Alexander’s Twitter thread last night explaining his decision to oppose any witness testimony about Trump’s scheme to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. The retiring Tennessee Republican wrote that the Democratic House impeachment managers had “proved” that Trump is guilty of withholding military aid to help his reelection campaign. But Alexander argued that Trump’s “inappropriate” actions do not deserve removal from office, so gathering more evidence would be a waste of time.

There is no need for more evidence to conclude that the president withheld United States aid, at least in part, to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens; the House managers have proved this with what they call a “mountain of overwhelming evidence.” 3/15

— Sen. Lamar Alexander (@SenAlexander) January 31, 2020 ]

Pretty sure with this...THIS...all ability to hide who they really are is completely gone to every even averagely intelligent human being on the face of the planet. I mean how exactly can you cover up that you had every last intention and motive to acquit a president everyone and i do mean everyone..knows is guilty?

How exactly do you or can you let something that explosive. That country changing. Something that..possibly world changing. Fade away? You don't and can't.

 

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PART XIII: TRUMP: "I'm going to be the greatest jobs president God ever created."
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The Trump Recession. It's already happening.

"Donald Trump’s says that America should re-elect him in 2020 because he’s doing such a great job with the economy.

Never mind that he’s been caught soliciting and cooperating with foreign interference in elections and obstructing justice, has locked kids in cages, and has been impeached. His foreign policy has also been a disaster.

But according to Trump, he’s created “the best economy in history”, and that’s why we should vote for him.

Trump has said he will revitalize manufacturing in various iterations (i.e. "I’m going to be the greatest jobs president God ever created") and laid out how in his June 28 speech on the economy.

Guess what? Not only has he failed to deliver, but right now, manufacturing is in the midst of a recession.

America's manufacturing downturn isn't letting up. Factory activity contracted for the fifth consecutive month in December, registering a worse drop than expected.

The Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing purchasing managers' index logged its lowest level since June 2009 at 47.2, compared with the consensus forecast of 49. It stood at 48.1 in November. Any number below 50 denotes a contraction.

Often, a president is given undeserved blame or credit for the performance of the economy under his watch.

But this recession can be traced directly to Trump’s policies. His trade war is a major culprit.

Last week, the Federal Reserve argued in a paper that import tariffs hurt US manufacturing. "A positive effect from import protection is offset by larger negative effects from rising input costs and retaliatory tariffs," it said.

This is the Trump Recession. Never mind forecasts of whether or not there will be a recession in 2020. The Trump Recession is happening right now."

 

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Iowa's anger over Trump's ethanol policy gives Democrats opening

 

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Prior to Trump's occupation of the O. Office, I posted this fact: Nine of the last ten recessions occurred under a Republican administration. (9 Of Last 10 Economic Recessions Under Republican Presidents Since 1953!)
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Well, looks like we just MAY be working on number ten.

Trump’s Budget Deficits Could Almost Double Obama’s

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"It appears that Trump and Congress have reached a deal to increase the debt limit and a two-year budget that will substantially increase the yearly federal deficit. Besides throwing aside any semblance of budget restraint by either political party, it will create $1 trillion plus budget deficits for as long as the eye can see.
Trump likes to claim that everything he does is the largest.... He is going to get his “wish” with the budget deficit since they are on course to be the biggest in an expanding economy.

Between the 2018 tax cuts..."

[i.e. giveaway to the filthy RICH]
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"... and the increase in spending for 2020 and 2021 it will push the accumulated deficits to be the largest ever over a four-year time frame. And God help the U.S. when a downturn in the economy hits and the deficits balloon beyond any current projection.

If the economy continues on this path it could enter a recession when few are forecasting one with one reliable indicator foreshadowing a downturn in the next 6 to 18 months. It could become a self-fulfilling prophecy as almost 70% of CFO’s are predicting a recession by the end of 2020."

 

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As Trump continues to try to BLOW SMOKE UP OUR ASSES by spinning FKNG LIES.... er... pardon... "alternate realities" THE FACTS INEVITABLY RISE TO THE SURFACE of his big steaming vat of HORSE S--------:

Trump says U.S. 'far from a recession' as White House economic anxiety mounts

Trump sought for a seventh day Tuesday to calm fears about the economy, brushing off talk of a recession and defending his decision to take on China, as real anxiety mounted inside the White House over how to end a trade war that risks dragging the U.S. into a recession during an election year.​

Trump's jobs record is weaker than everyone thought.​

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"Wha whaaa... his ... lines... are longer than mine." (Or, "take two, they're small.")

And speaking of --------- hitting the fan:

In Trump administration embargo on Venezuela oil, Putin's Russia a clear winner - The Washington Post

 

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Trump official busted for telling ‘blatant lie’ after claiming the president doesn’t plan to cut Medicaid – Raw Story

"Healthcare advocates are calling out Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma for claiming Thursday that the Trump administration “is not cutting Medicaid” even as it moves forward with a block grant plan that critics warn would slash benefits for millions of vulnerable people across the nation.

“This is a blatant lie,” Rebecca Vallas, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, tweeted in response to Verma’s Washington Post op-ed accusing healthcare activists—including an emergency room doctor who confronted Vice President Mike Pence over the block grant plan last week—of “fearmongering” about Medicaid cuts.

Vallas tweeted to Verma: “First of all, you authorized and are encouraging states to cut off Medicaid for millions who can’t meet rigid work reporting requirements.” And second, she added, “you’re pushing Medicaid block grants, which could strip 14-21 million people of health insurance if enacted nationwide.”

Make no mistake: the Trump administration has spent the past two years actively dismantling Medicaid by fiat—after failing to gut it legislatively as part of ACA repeal."

— Rebecca Vallas (@rebeccavallas) February 6, 2020

 

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There are still ‘Two Americas’ — and Trump’s economy is leaving many behind and suicidal – Raw Story

"Donald Trump proclaims the economy the best it has ever been. But for those still suffering, hearing how great things are for everyone else can make things really depressing.

Nicholas Kristof’s Sunday editorial in the New York Times explained that for all of Trump’s soaring stocks and profitable corporations, things aren’t great for many people.

“Yet we live in two Americas, and there’s another side of the country that Trump didn’t mention — one that helped elect him but that he has neglected since,” Kristof wrote. “In the other America, suicide rates are at a record high in the post-World War II era, and more Americans die every two weeks from drugs, alcohol, and suicide — ‘deaths of despair’ — than died in 18 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
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Opinion | The Hidden Depression Trump Isn’t Helping - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/opinion/sunday/trump-economy.html
and in related news:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/th...-economy-is-leaving-many-behind-and-suicidal/
Instead of a war on hunger, Trump is waging a war on hungry people—including a million kids -Daily Kos

"Donald Trump’s bragging about the decline in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program enrollment rests on two things: the falling number of people needing food aid that started under President Obama as the economy improved, and Trump’s own plans to increase food insecurity by stripping millions of people of food aid.

Kids are one of the groups that will be hit hardest, under a Trump administration plan to block states from expanding eligibility to fit their economies.

Food stamp change would hurt kids, educators and advocates testify

 

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Major Labor Strikes Surged in 2019 – Mother Jones
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"Last May, for the second year in a row, thousands of North Carolina public school teachers marched to the state Capitol in red t-shirts to demand better funding for public schools and Medicaid. In part because of the strike, Governor Roy Cooper has refused to sign a budget that doesn’t include robust pay raises for educators.

North Carolina’s teachers weren’t the only ones who walked out on the job en masse last year. Data released this week from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 2019 had a higher number of “major work stoppages,” meaning strikes and lockouts, involving 1,000 or more workers than any year since 2001. The Economic Policy Institute notes that 2019 also saw the most strikes involving 20,000 or more workers than any year since 1993, when BLS first started keeping track."

source pdf: https://www.epi.org/files/pdf/185669.pdf

 

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Major Labor Strikes Surged in 2019 – Mother Jones
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"Last May, for the second year in a row, thousands of North Carolina public school teachers marched to the state Capitol in red t-shirts to demand better funding for public schools and Medicaid. In part because of the strike, Governor Roy Cooper has refused to sign a budget that doesn’t include robust pay raises for educators.

North Carolina’s teachers weren’t the only ones who walked out on the job en masse last year. Data released this week from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 2019 had a higher number of “major work stoppages,” meaning strikes and lockouts, involving 1,000 or more workers than any year since 2001. The Economic Policy Institute notes that 2019 also saw the most strikes involving 20,000 or more workers than any year since 1993, when BLS first started keeping track."

source pdf: https://www.epi.org/files/pdf/185669.pdf

The party of suicide. lol

 

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POLITICAL suicide, one would THINK. But no, the GOP goes on, fkng PEOPLE... including those among their own CONSTITUENCY. And they just eat it up.

Example ... shades of "Deepwater":

First they cut the safety rules on oil rigs. Then they covered up objections to cutting the rules

"Offshore oil rigs are among the most dangerous places to work. The roughnecks who work on the rigs are often dealing with heavy objects, high pressures, suspended weights, oil, grease, heat, water—everything that makes for a difficult work environment. Then they do it in an often isolated environment, frequently under the kind of pressure that comes from a tight schedule.

So safety rules on rigs are especially important, and especially strict. Except … not any more.

Because Scott Angelle, a Louisiana state commissioner who Donald Trump put in charge of the entire Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, overhauled those rules to put profits ahead of safety. And when engineers on his staff pointed out the problems, he took action—to cover up their complaints.

As The Wall Street Journal reports, Angelle made changes that included reducing the need for oil companies to test critical safety gear.

Even more frightening, Angelle changed rules that had been put in place following the BP disaster and required close supervision of the pressure at the well head. Instead Angelle, who the Journal describes as “a friend of the oil industry,” adopted wholesale new safety proposals that had come from the industry itself.

Angelle made these changes over the objections of the agency’s own engineering staff, who dutifully recorded their objections to the changes on memos that were prepared as part of the process of proposing those new measures.

But Angelle wasn’t happy to see that his own engineers objected to the industry proposals.

And he addressed this in the most straightforward way: He called one of the engineers and had him delete the objections from the memos.

The proposals were then sent along, with no indication that anyone at Angelle’s agency had objected to the eased safety regulations. Trump then championed the changes as lightening the burden of regulations on the oil industry, one of the “wins” he counted when listing the top accomplishments of his first three years in office."


Now, how many of Trump's OWN CONSTITUENCY, along the entire Gulf Coast, do you think were FUCKED by the Deepwater Horizon debacle??

 

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PART XIV: The CARES Act Provides Assistance to Workers and their Families - ONLY, WE'RE PAYING FOR IT.

The CARES Act Sent You a $1,200 Check but Gave Millionaires and Billionaires Far More — ProPublica​

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The stimulus checks were meant to get average Americans through the lockdown, but those $1,200 payouts were small change compared with the billions in tax breaks the CARES Act handed out to the country’s wealthiest.

The best-known feature of the CARES Act, as it’s known, is the cash grant of up to $1,200 per adult and $500 per child for households whose income was less than $99,000 for single taxpayers and $198,000 for couples.

The income limits suggested that the plan benefits the people most in need, those most likely to spend their stimulus payments and thus help the economy. The rhetoric conveyed the same: “The CARES Act Provides Assistance to Workers And Their Families” is how the Treasury’s website puts it.

But when... looking at details of the legislation, ... several of its provisions quietly provided benefits that were worth much more than $1,200 to some upper-middle-class people who didn’t qualify for stimulus payments. Some other provisions provided vastly bigger benefits to the rich, to corporations and to a relative handful of ultra-rich folks.

... five provisions of the legislation that benefited the upper middle class... the families of Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner; high-income people who make large charitable donations; and Boeing and other corporations that are showing losses; as well as indirectly benefited people who have substantial investments in U.S. stocks.

These five provisions that help the well-heeled will cost the Treasury — which is to say, U.S. taxpayers — an estimated $257.95 billion for the 2020 calendar year. That’s nearly as much as the estimated $292.37 billion price tag for the stimulus grants to regular folks.

1. Eliminating Required Distributions From Retirement Accounts: $11.72 billion
2. Charitable Deductions: $4.83 billion
3. Pass-Through Entities: $140.61 billion
4. Corporate Interest Deductions: $12.09 billion
5. Corporate Loss Treatment: $88.70 billion

As USUAL, They take care of their OWN, FIRST. Smoke and mirrors, folks.

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All so TYPICAL of Trump and his cronies in the GOP:

• Lie to the American people.
• Fuck the American people.
• Then blame it on Democrats.

As it ALWAYS was with their bullshit "trickle down economics," their 9 out of 10 recessions, their opposition to raising the minimum wage, their undermining of collective bargaining, their legal maneuvers and policies designed to strip consumers of protective policies and right to sue, their phony-assed "tax cut," their attempts to shut down Obamacare WITHOUT an alternative plan, and their current attacks on everything from Medicare, to Social Security.

ALL of which was and IS designed to ENRICH THEMSELVES and funnel money into wealthy fkrs like Trump and Co. while screwing his apparently deaf, UNINFORMED, and UNOBSERVANTLY BAMBOOZLED constituency.
[URL='https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tried-blaming-democrats-for-spiking-the-payroll-tax-cut-but-it-was-actually-republicans-that-squashed-it/ar-BB176Si0'][/URL]
[URL='https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tried-blaming-democrats-for-spiking-the-payroll-tax-cut-but-it-was-actually-republicans-that-squashed-it/ar-BB176Si0']Trump tried blaming Democrats for spiking the payroll-tax cut — but it was actually Republicans that squashed it[/URL]
[URL='https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tried-blaming-democrats-for-spiking-the-payroll-tax-cut-but-it-was-actually-republicans-that-squashed-it/ar-BB176Si0'][/URL]

Trump assailed Democrats and blamed them for the payroll tax cut being left out of the Senate GOP plan.But it was Republicans who dropped the measure, since many GOP senators expressed skepticism about its economic benefits during a pandemic that's caused high levels of unemployment.

"A payroll-tax cut is extremely expensive," Susan Collins said on Monday, adding it "would only benefit individuals who are working" and "also would displace other spending that I think is far more important."
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MEANWHILE, no skin off THEIR noses:

The GOP Plan to Slash Unemployment Benefits Puts the Whole Economic Recovery at Risk – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politic...its-puts-the-whole-economic-recovery-at-risk/

The expiration of this $600 benefit is right around the corner—July 31, absent an extension by Congress. The Democratic-controlled House passed a bill in May to extend the benefit until January 2021. The GOP Senate majority has continued to debate how much, if anything, of the benefit it will leave standing.

Economists and advocates have long warned that an end or reduction of enhanced unemployment will usher in an “income cliff”—an enormous drop in monthly income and a wave of immediate household pain and financial struggle at a moment when many families’ financial situations have not returned to pre-pandemic normal.
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"We're in the money":

The Trump campaign is a cesspool of mismanagement, nepotism, grift, and idiocy
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ssing-it-away-on-nepotism-grift-and-stupidity
Former IRS Investigator Reveals Evidence Of Possible Mar-A-Lago Money Laundering
https://bipartisanreport.com/2020/0...ence-of-possible-mar-a-lago-money-laundering/

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https://www.motherjones.com/politic...its-puts-the-whole-economic-recovery-at-risk/