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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Starmer chooses the Rich over the Disabled. That maybe what Reform voters want, but the rest of us find it repellent. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/27/disabled-celebrities-urge-keir-starmer-scrap-inhumane-benefit-cuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/27/disabled-celebrities-urge-keir-starmer-scrap-inhumane-benefit-cuts</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeirStarmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOLITICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOLITICS</span></a></p>
Isaac Mottistone<p>The country where the taxpayer pays three times to keep banking fat-cats in the style they so richly *don’t* deserve. The first time followed the banking crash of 2008 with the £multibillion taxpayer funded ‘loans’ paid to rescue the banks from their own greed. The second, when government imposed ‘Austerity’ on taxpayers paving the way for a decade of stagnating wages and underfunded services. And the third time, when in a deal brokered by government, taxpayer owned shares are sold back to the banks at a loss of £billions whilst services and working people continue to struggle. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a></p><p>Taxpayers set for £10bn loss on NatWest as disgraced ex-boss takes £600k-a-year pension - The Guardian <a href="https://apple.news/AO71EtLD-R_OfjsoM29xggA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apple.news/AO71EtLD-R_OfjsoM29</span><span class="invisible">xggA</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>Trump has transformed DC since his return to power is the normalization of💰making schemes that once would've generated endless pol blowback, televised hearings, official investigations &amp; damage control. The death of outrage in the Trump era exemplifies how far he's moved the lines of accepted behavior in DC. </p><p>The NYT finally holds Trump's feet to the fire, but doesn't mention his co-conspirators: R MOC. We must amplify his <a href="https://toad.social/tags/grift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grift</span></a> &amp; waste, <a href="https://toad.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a> for Americans.<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=g&amp;pvid=52EE11B2-F893-4E3E-ADBD-613973902938" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=g&amp;pvid=52EE11B2-F893-4E3E-ADBD-613973902938</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Two words continue to shape the UK's political economy:</p><p>austerity </p><p>Brexit </p><p>Both these ideas find their origins in the Tory party of the new millennium (although to be fair, austerity in more general policy terms has a much longer pedigree)... the tragedy is that a Labour Party claiming it had a mandate for change, seems unwilling to move away from either....</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a></p><p>h/t William Keegan/Observer</p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>In a week dominated by class war budget news, an ongoing genocide, and the persecution of Trump’s political opponents, the Skinny had a finger on the pulse.</p><p><a href="https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/24/26716/2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/24</span><span class="invisible">/26716/2/</span></a></p><p>The Skinny: Threats, Fantasies, and Naked Corruption</p><p>"There is something fundamentally wrong, and actively dangerous, about a US corporate media complex that can watch a fascist, white nationalist, and openly nativist regime engage in a clear act of authoritarian political intimidation against its duly-elected political opposition, to protect a nightmare mass deportation scheme built on legal arguments you know are extremely dubious, and report it as a “clash” while accepting Alina Habba of all people’s arguments at face value. This isn’t bad journalism, this is paving the way for the fascist repression of Trump’s political opponents in real time and whether its a result of cowardice, or open collaboration, is absolutely fucking irrelevant. The United States is speedrunning a descent into a fascist dictatorship run by a brainwormed septuagenarian racist and his openly white nationalist toady Stephen Miller, and these chucklefucks are out here pretending just maybe a Congresswoman should do a couple decades of hard time for bumping into an ICE murderpig while literally being prevented from doing her job; even though we have the entire interaction on fucking video."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Budget</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LaMonicaMcIver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaMonicaMcIver</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MsRachel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MsRachel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/EnablingAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnablingAct</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TheSkinny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheSkinny</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AlinaHabba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlinaHabba</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>"Hurricane Helene ripped through North Carolina, leaving millions of cubic yards of destruction. Now,🚨FEMA's sudden decision to pull direct aid threatens to force North Carolina taxpayers to shoulder a shocking hundreds of millions of dollars. It's a <a href="https://toad.social/tags/betrayal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>betrayal</span></a>.</p><p>"Maybe North Carolina should buy $1M of Trump’s meme coin &amp; see if that gets him to approve their FEMA request."<br>-EM Zorbit<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FEMA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthCarolina</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Privatization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privatization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sadism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sadism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.factarrow.com/north-carolina-united-states/2025-05-23-femas-shocking-decision-leaves-north-carolina-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-millions-after-helene/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">factarrow.com/north-carolina-u</span><span class="invisible">nited-states/2025-05-23-femas-shocking-decision-leaves-north-carolina-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-millions-after-helene/</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Currently underway 'negotiations' around the spending review have (according to a source quoted in the FT) turned into 'a chaotic bunfight. There’s no strategy or plan. It’s seemingly random what is getting funded'.</p><p>Ministers are of course briefing that they are fighting hard for their areas (in the context of continuing austerity), but of course Rachel Reeves is working a zero-sum game with a capped logic for public spending... if you voted Labour to end austerity; not happening.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a></p>
JuneSim63<p>JPMorgan Chase, one of the world’s largest banks threatened to leave the UK if the government increased tax on banks at last year’s autumn budget.</p><p>This is so much bollocks. The UK is one of the world’s biggest financial centres. There is no way this bank would leave. Reeves should have called their bluff. Instead she gave in and made the rest of us poorer.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Banking</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/jp-morgan-chase-rachel-reeeves-leave-uk-increase-tax-bank-surcharge-jamie-dimon-autumn-budget/?_kx=Y6Jr9DX7uTfIhCWL5xh7XuAwOOyacXD_LNbwxizLxyc.YjCYwm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone</span><span class="invisible">y-investigations/jp-morgan-chase-rachel-reeeves-leave-uk-increase-tax-bank-surcharge-jamie-dimon-autumn-budget/?_kx=Y6Jr9DX7uTfIhCWL5xh7XuAwOOyacXD_LNbwxizLxyc.YjCYwm</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>Americans don't want people going hungry in their communities, but Republicans do. Amplify.</p><p>"There is not a single congressional district in the US where more than 15% of voters support cuts to <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SNAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SNAP</span></a> the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans."</p><p>To check your district⬇️<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hunger</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Children</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FoodScarcity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodScarcity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpcession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Stagflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stagflation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sadism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sadism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/5/22/voters-in-every-congressional-district-oppose-cuts-to-snap" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/</span><span class="invisible">5/22/voters-in-every-congressional-district-oppose-cuts-to-snap</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>When it came to the more radical departures from GOP orthodoxy championed by Bannon—like raising the top marginal tax rate on the wealthiest—Trump: “I &amp; all others would graciously accept” a “TINY tax⬆️for the RICH” in order to “help the lower/mid income workers -Rs should probably not do it, but I’m OK if they do!”</p><p>Absence of NEW REV to help pay for all the other tax cuts meant: l'ship🚨had to slash Medicaid +rolling back💚-energy tax credits.<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a><br><a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/republican-populist-betrayal-health-care-trump-big-beautiful-bill-budget-taxes-medicaid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thebulwark.com/p/republican-po</span><span class="invisible">pulist-betrayal-health-care-trump-big-beautiful-bill-budget-taxes-medicaid</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Once again, by awarding pay rises to public sector staff (on a differential basis &amp; thereby angering those getting less uplift), but not fully funding the rises, once again Labour's austerity mindset is on show; these are just cuts disguised as largesse.</p><p>Labour may be right that they cannot reverse years of under-payment in one or two years, but not to fully fund the rises demonstrates that really they are making yet more public service cuts...</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/22/teachers-doctors-england-pay-rise-nhs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/22/teachers-doctors-england-pay-rise-nhs</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Well, we're in the shit now. In the event you haven't heard, House Republicans rammed through their nightmare class war reconciliation bill in the dead of night, because when you're voting to murder and rob your own voters, it's best to wait until everyone is asleep. This is of course, bad. The "Big Beautiful Bill" does however still have to make it past the Senate, where there has been pushback over Mike Johnson's proposed $715B in Medicaid cuts; most notably from faux-populist Josh Hawley. Of course, in the US system of government the Senate has the power to alter the bill before voting; which means things could easily get worse too. The long and short of the situation is that we're probably still fucked, but we get to spend multiple weeks agonizing over whether or not we're completely fucked; because American politics is basically the meatspace answer to the Torment Nexus.</p><p>All of which means that we're still breaking down the most horrifying aspects of the GOP's homicidal class war reconciliation bill; which honestly might have so much nightmare shit inside that it'll fully pass into law before analysts get a chance to talk about all of the reasons this is a terrible bill. Take for example the unhinged and highly-partisan assault the Republican Party is conducting on green energy initiatives and subsidies. We already know the Trump regime is committed to burning the planet to ash as fast as possible purely as a matter of ideology, but did you know that eliminating everything about Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act will also increase household costs for everyday Americans and eliminate as many as 830,000 jobs? These guys sure are good at "the economy."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/trump-republican-tax-bill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/may/22/trump-republican-tax-bill</span></a></p><p>Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn</p><p>The analysis in this article is kind of all over the place, but we're essentially looking at three issues here: job losses, increased household expenses, and climate damage that will be directly caused by this bill. </p><p>"And the legislation will cost the US 830,000 jobs by 2030 compared with the status quo, Energy Innovation found. That includes the direct loss of jobs in fields such as solar panel manufacturing and electric vehicle production, indirect job loss from the decreased investments and lower clean energy demand, and induced cuts resulting from consumer spending cuts attributable to layoffs, higher fuel costs, and other third-order effects.</p><p>“The Inflation Reduction Act was carefully crafted to create good-paying jobs in deindustrialized communities, underserved communities, and coal communities. We have seen that it is doing just that, creating good jobs you don’t need a college degree to get and opening up pathways to the middle class across the nation,” said Ted Fertik, vice-president of manufacturing and industrial policy at climate and labor advocacy group Blue Green Alliance. “Killing the tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act is a direct attack on working Americans.”</p><p>I think these devastating numbers speak for themselves, but it's also worth pointing out that because the IRA's green energy spending was specifically targeted at rural, deindustrialized communities, this is going to result in significantly more job losses in Republican voting areas than "blue" states. Whether that matters to you is a question of opinion, but it again exposes that the GOP is actively voting to harm its own supporters at every turn in this bill. </p><p>"The bill as it stands will cause Americans’ energy bills to spike by stymying new renewable energy – often the cheapest form of new electricity generation – the non-partisan thinktank Energy Innovation calculated. The average household will see their bills rise by more than $230 by 2035."</p><p>I mean who doesn't love paying higher power bills, am I right? Obviously nobody is going to lose their minds over an additional $230 per year in energy costs, but this must be understood in the context of all the *other* ways this bill is going to increase household costs for American families; more expensive power, combines with higher medical costs, and reduced food subsidies to add up to an insurmountable barrier for low income families pretty fast.</p><p>“This will all come at the expense of the environment,” said Orvis.</p><p>The new bill will also cause the US to emit 260m tonnes more pollution than it would’ve otherwise in 2035, which is more than the entire annual emissions of Spain."</p><p>And of course it wouldn't be a Trump-approved bill if it didn't literally kill the planet faster. </p><p>Naturally, all this nightmare bullshit is being sold as "ending subsidies for woke corporations" because not getting black lung is apparently woke now. The obvious truth here however is that this ENTIRE bill is a subsidy for rich people, paid for by literally robbing and murdering labor class Americans.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Budget</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ReconciliationBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReconciliationBill</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Theft</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murder</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>"Well, Reps Lawler &amp; Malliotakis<br> (and every other GOP Rep) just voted for🚨half a TRILLION dollars in cuts to Medicare. Not Medicaid. Medicare. Sure hope those 30 second ads start cranking. Receipts below.</p><p>CBO letter confirming $490 billion cuts to Medicare."<br>-J Marshall</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hunger</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Seniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seniors</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disabled</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpcession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Stagflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stagflation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/June14" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>June14</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-05/61423-PAYGO.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbo.gov/system/files/2025-05/6</span><span class="invisible">1423-PAYGO.pdf</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Stagflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stagflation</span></a>, <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a>, <a href="https://toad.social/tags/hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hunger</span></a>...</p><p>"<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> in this bill is going to be particularly impactful.</p><p>The stimulus in this bill is going to be esp non-impactful. </p><p>Poor ppl spend all the💰they've back into the economy. The Bill cuts their after tax income. </p><p>Rich ppl invest all the excess money they have into FIN assets. This doesn’t lead to economic growth."<br>-S Hakimian</p><p>"Budget law:🚨would make things worse, esp over the medium &amp; LT, with slower growth &amp; higher interest rates."<br>-J Furman<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>I bet you thought you'd escaped budget stories, didn't ya? Sadly the joke's on us all because the GOP's homicidal class war reconciliation budget can now be fairly described as *historically* awful. As more people analyze the CBO report on the "Big Beautiful Bill" Mike Johnson is ramming through the house for Swine Emperor Trump, it's becoming clear that this is literally an unprecedented high speed robbery of the American labor class, to fatten the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/republican-wealth-transfer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/republic</span><span class="invisible">an-wealth-transfer</span></a></p><p>CBO Report Shows Trump-GOP Bill Would Spur Unparalleled Wealth Transfer From Poor to Rich</p><p>"The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the Republican legislation speeding through the U.S. House of Representatives would cut household resources for the bottom 10% of Americans while delivering gains to the wealthiest in the form of tax breaks.</p><p>"If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, said in response to the CBO analysis, which was released shortly before the start of a dead-of-night House Rules Committee hearing on the Republican reconciliation package."</p><p>I mean, if I'm being honest I feel like we could just wrap this discussion up right there; it doesn't really get more direct than "the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history." Let's go get some pizza?</p><p>Okay fine; there is a little bit of obtuse CBO report language to wade through in this article. Fortunately however the final breakdown isn't all that complex. In addition to stripping over a trillion and a half dollars in long term funding from life-saving social assistance programs like Medicaid, SNAP, and Medicare, this bill also shifts the tax burden onto the least wealthy Americans, to benefit more wealthy Americans in higher tax brackets. Particularly the very wealthy ruling class. Folks already being ground up by capitalism suffer more hardships and worse health outcomes, so rich people can buy more shit that helps them extract even more value out of the American labor class. </p><p>In the final analysis the CBO report proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that House Republicans are actively planning to rob and murder poor people, to pay off the rich; which some of you may remember I've been telling you all along. We just have it writing now. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Budget</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ReconciliationBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReconciliationBill</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murder</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Theft</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CBO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBO</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BobbyKogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BobbyKogan</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Look, I don't want to make excuses for the mainstream media here; when a fascist government is actively trying to murder thousands of its own constituents for a small cadre of uber-rich nazi megadonors, that's a story you have to report in honest language no matter what time of day the mass murder plot is revealed to the world. But by that same measure, the fact that the Republican Party is purposely scheduling committee meetings at one on the morning to avoid public scrutiny and protest, while they plot to kill poor and marginalized people to pay for outrageous tax cuts for the rich, is absolutely a part of that story too. It's almost like they *know* murdering poor people and seniors isn't going to be popular even with their own constituents. </p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-rules-committee-hearing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/house-ru</span><span class="invisible">les-committee-hearing</span></a></p><p>'What Don't They Want You to Know?' GOP Sets 1 AM Hearing to Advance Disastrous Medicaid Cuts</p><p>"While the House Rules Committee has not responded to reporters' questions about the timing of Wednesday's hearing, critics said it appears to be an attempt to avoid the kinds of protests and public scrutiny that daytime meetings have attracted.</p><p>Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the ranking member of the rules panel, blasted his Republican colleagues over the dead-of-night hearing time, writing on social media that "they have such contempt for the American people."</p><p>"If Donald Trump's big beautiful tax break for billionaires is so great... why not pass it in primetime?" McGovern asked. "Why jam it through in the middle of the night? What don't they want you to know?"</p><p>Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) added that "if you think you are doing what is right for the American people, you don't consider it in the dead of night."</p><p>Look, I'm not out here to help the Democratic Party improve its image, but it's hard to disagree with anything McGovern and Dingell said here; particularly as the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" keeps getting worse, and more lethal for labor class Americans all the time. These fascist Republican assclowns know that they're voting to kill their own constituents to pay for outrageous tax cuts and gifts to their billionaire donors, they know that if the people actually understood this folks all over the country would be breaking out the torches and pitchforks; the plan here is clearly to rush this monstrous class war budget through the system under the cover of darkness and then pretend they had no idea how the story would end once people start dying.</p><p>Which is why I'd like to highlight Jim McGovern's public statements during that most recent 1 AM hearing; particularly given that I'm not sure how much of the media was even awake for it.</p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-mcgovern-scorches-cynical-gop-move-hate-washington_n_682da4ade4b0c95f733600f1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/jim-mcgover</span><span class="invisible">n-scorches-cynical-gop-move-hate-washington_n_682da4ade4b0c95f733600f1</span></a></p><p>House Dem Scorches ‘Unbelievably Cynical’ GOP Move As ‘Why People Hate Washington’</p><p>“This is a farce, an outrageous insult to the people of this country, to bring up a 1,000-page bill at 1 o’clock in the morning,” McGovern said in the hearing. “A bill that’s still being written, by the way, by Republicans, as we speak, in a backroom somewhere, for God’s sake.”</p><p>The bill is central to Trump’s domestic agenda: It would extend tax cuts he signed into law in 2017 that are set to expire at the end of this year, and pump hundreds of billions of dollars into his mass deportation campaign and newly announced “Golden Dome” missile defense system.</p><p>The legislation would offset those tax cuts and expenditures by pushing millions of Americans off Medicaid, however, and by curbing eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps about 42 million people buy food each month.</p><p>“And then to try to jam it through Congress in the middle of the night when nobody is watching is just unbelievably cynical,” McGovern, the ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said Wednesday. “This is why people hate Washington.”</p><p>Plainly speaking, McGovern is absolutely right; which is why it's pretty disturbing that his remarks aren't all over the front pages of every media outlet in America. Furthermore, McGovern's analysis of what the bill actually does is a fair site better than anything you'll hear on CNN or MSNBC as well.</p><p>"McGovern on Wednesday called the legislation “a scam” to punish working and middle-class Americans, asking Republican supporters during the hearing why they chose a career in public service “just to rip away” their constituents’ “health care and food assistance and security.”</p><p>“And let me say this to every Republican member who votes for this,” McGovern added.</p><p>“You own it,” he continued. “You own it. You own every hospital that closes, every child that goes to bed hungry, every senior who loses care, and every American family forced to choose between groceries and rent, between their heating bill and their child care.”</p><p>Of course, even McGovern didn't use the word "murder" but I guess it doesn't count till healthcare CEOs are dying.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Theft</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murder</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SNAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SNAP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/JimMcGovern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimMcGovern</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>"Auto loan delinquency is officially at its highest level of all time. </p><p>Add another straw to the camel’s back. </p><p>Eventually, one of these insignificant straws, will cause the entire camel to collapse."<br>-S Hakimian</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/AutoLoans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutoLoans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpcession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Stagflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stagflation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/June14" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>June14</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>I'm not sure what it's going to take for mainstream media to admit the GOP reconciliation budget bill is absolutely a plot to murder labor class Americans for the benefit of the wealthiest people in our society, but the evidence that this is precisely what's going on here continues to mount. A breaking Congressional Budget Office estimate released last night shows that precisely because the Republican Party's class war murder and theft bill does *not* reduce the deficit, but will in fact increase it, passing this budget reconciliation bill will automatically trigger sequestration under the Statutory Pay‑As‑You‑Go Act; which is a fancy way of saying it will result in over $500 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next 10 years. This is of course despite President Donald Trump's promise that the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" wouldn't touch funding for either Medicaid or Medicare.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuts-to-medicare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/cuts-to-</span><span class="invisible">medicare</span></a></p><p>'They're Not Just Cutting Medicaid': GOP Bill Would Trigger Over $500 Billion in Medicare Cuts</p><p>"This Republican budget bill is one of the most expensive—and dangerous—bills Congress has seen in decades," said Boyle, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "The nonpartisan CBO makes it clear: The deficit will explode so badly it will trigger automatic cuts, including over half a trillion dollars from Medicare."</p><p>"This is what Republicans do—pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires by going after programs families rely on the most: Medicaid, food assistance, and now Medicare," Boyle added. "It's reckless, dishonest, and deeply harmful to the middle class."</p><p>Boyle highlighted the CBO's findings during his testimony at the House Rules Committee hearing, which began in the early hours of Wednesday morning.</p><p>"This is really the breaking news," Boyle said. "Over the last several months, there's been no discussion of Medicare at all. There has been of Medicaid, but not of Medicare."</p><p>"Because of the size of the deficits, because of the PAYGO or Pay-As-You-Go Act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion," Boyle continued. "The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."</p><p>For those of you who are unaware, Medicare is the federal health insurance program that typically provides coverage for Americans 65 and over; it's at least partially funded by payroll taxes and in a country that does almost nothing to help seniors who are no longer in the workforce, it's a program that saves lives every single day. The GOP has been trying to eliminate or privatize this program for decades, and as such I have a hard time believing these proposed cuts, which again add up to like $550B over the course of ten years, are in any way accidental even if they are automatic. These GOP nazis know what they're doing, and the rest of their budget is devoted to the same goal: killing poor and marginalized people so the wealthiest individuals in our society can pile up more money they won't live long enough to spend. Peter Thiel needs more cheddar to mainstream dystopian fascist propaganda, so Grandma is going in the woodchipper; that's literally the plan here, and it is both entirely predictable and intentional.</p><p>Which of course brings up the question of why American corporate media isn't just up and telling you that the Republicans want to kill poor people and seniors to pay for Elon Musk's quest to birth himself a child army by bribing social media influencers to accept his sperm? Could it be because the people who own those media outlets stand to make a pretty penny from the GOP's reconciliation budget bill and they hate poor people almost as much as rich Republican nazis do? Who can say... </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Budget</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Seniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seniors</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ReconciliationBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReconciliationBill</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murder</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Theft</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SocialPrograms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialPrograms</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>"ATTENTION: Current + Future Student Loan Borrowers (and Parents)</p><p>Here’s how the “Big Beautiful Bill” couldwreck your future:</p><p>🚨 STUDENT LOAN CHANGES UNDER THE BILL (proposed)</p><p>📌 SAVE Plan Terminated<br>No more SAVE, ICR, PAYE, or REPAYE for new loans after July 1, 2026.</p><p>📌 Changed Repayment Options<br>• Standard Plan: Fixed payments over 10–25 years<br>• Repayment Assistance Plan: Income-driven, 30-year forgiveness cap, $10 minimum..."<br>- C Webb</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/StudentLoans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentLoans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpcession</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Betrayal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Betrayal</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>I think one of the mistakes political opponents and media critics frequently make when analyzing Trump and what he's done to the GOP, is to present Downmarket Mussolini as outsider and an aberration from traditional Republican Party politics. Which isn't to say Trump doesn't represent an acceleration of the fascist tendencies that have long been brewing in right wing American politics (like Goldwater-long, at least) but the successful Christian Nationalist political project Trumpism now represents here in the Swine Emperor's second term, has successfully integrated most of the GOP's longstanding political projects and ideas right alongside the more openly white nationalist objectives of guys like Stephen Miller. A good example of this would be the way the Republican Party has successfully revived its decades-long experiment with adding work requirements to social assistance programs, by integrating them into homicidal budget cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, totaling more than a trillion dollars over the next ten years.</p><p>Let me assure you as someone who lived through the 'Red" conquest of the Midwest, and Rick Synder's austerity regime in Michigan, that work requirements do not at all "work" in the way libertarian freakjobs insist they do. This is because marginalization, and poverty are systemic in America and we do not fund programs like Medcaid and SNAP because "people are lazy and just don't want you to work" as Koch-topus propagandists would have you believe. The reality is that Republicans know that, and have always known it; the purpose here isn't really to weed out abuse but simply to force more people off social assistance no matter how terrible the outcomes are. And they are terrible, literally everywhere they've been adopted these policies have failed across all sorts of social assistance programs; state level schemes in Arkansas and Georgia that linked work requirements to Medicaid in particular already flopped, doing "little to boost employment while depriving many of health coverage."</p><p>Furthermore, as labor policy analyst Matt Bruenig points out, tying medical assistance to employment disempowers workers, and increases labor precarity as a result of decisions made by employers and corporations. Indeed, one of the only reasons a private healthcare system like America's can even "function," is to use programs like Medicaid as a backstop when workers lose their company insurance plans due to unemployment; and now the Republican Party wants to rip that safety net away, and hand even more power to the bosses.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-gop-work-requirements" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/house-go</span><span class="invisible">p-work-requirements</span></a></p><p>Policy Expert Details Cruelty and Pointlessness of GOP's Medicaid Work Requirements</p><p>"Matt Bruenig, founder of the People's Policy Project, a left-wing think tank, argued in his Times op-ed that "imposing work requirements on Medicaid is a fundamentally misguided policy," particularly given that "it is employers, not workers, who make hiring, firing, and scheduling decisions."</p><p>"Last year, over 20 million workers were laid off or fired at some point from their jobs," Bruenig observed. "Many of those workers ended up losing not just all of their income but also their employer-sponsored health care. Medicaid is supposed to provide a backstop for these workers, but if we tie eligibility to work, they will find themselves locked out of the healthcare system because of decisions their employers made, often for reasons beyond their control."</p><p>To underscore the absurdity of forcing vulnerable people to document adequate work hours in order to receive public benefits, Bruenig wrote that "our society could decide that police and fire departments will not respond to calls made by individuals who worked less than 80 hours in the prior month, but most would find this repugnant and contrary to the purpose of these services."</p><p>As Bruenig goes on to note on the article, this is basically a solution in search or a problem; or rather the problem this solution solves has nothing to do with preventing Medicaid abuse and everything to do with legitimizing anti-labor class war propaganda about welfare leeches while further empowering the tyranny of the employer class. </p><p>So, let's just review okay? Work requirement policies, particularly tied to Medcaid, don't increase employment because propaganda about abuse by "lazy grifters" isn't real. They are also terrible for labor class people because the invariably result in huge numbers of people simply not being able to qualify for assistance, which of course has some pretty serious consequences if we're talking Medicaid assistance. But work requirements *do* make bosses more powerful because workers are more precarious and the money saved by denying coverage to people who should qualify should allow Marc Andreessen to buy a new yacht. </p><p>Well, I can see why Republicans love the "big beautiful" bill; it's everything they've wanted since the fall of the Berlin Wall.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Budget</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/LaborRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Murder</span></a></p>