Turns out raising taxes on 99% of people doesn’t cover the costs of lowering taxes on 1% of people.
Plus the cost of corruption, embezzlement, and gold-plated everything.
Turns out setting all the functional parts of the government on fire to try and save money actually costs money
Yup. We need a revolution.
I mean does anyone even know where that tariff income is actually going?
record tariff income
It went from “basically nothing” to “economy crippling tidal wave”. Yay…
I’ve never heard any politician brag about raising taxes before. I would say our kids and grandkids will be really confused when they study this in history class, but it’s hard to imagine there will still be history classes when climate change makes the earth largely uninhabitable.
I’ve never heard any politician brag about raising taxes before.
Not as uncommon as you’d think. Reagan bragged about raising taxes, which he claimed was going to save Social Security. Then Bush and Clinton both bragged their tax hicks would balance the budget.
it’s hard to imagine there will still be history classes when climate change makes the earth largely uninhabitable.
There’s a lot of horror in between “climate change isn’t happening” and “human extinction event”.
If the ecological crunch cuts out current population in half, we’re talking about 4B+ people - the Nazi Holocaust times 1000 - playing out on a global scale.
You’ll still have history class down in the climate bunkers and out in the receding reservations and preserves. But what they’ll be teaching? No idea. Maybe it’ll look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Burns,_a_Post-Electric_Play
This was the design.
It’s almost like being unable to run a casino (or 5) is a good indicator of not being able run a country.
Of course, him and his friends are making (stealing your) money every time he talks about our changes tariffs.
Remember: Balancing the budget is always an excuse. The money to care for people has always been there.
I may be wrong but this puts it at the level of world war 2 spending and I don’t think we have had anything like it between now and ww2 although we are only through basically half the year so could easily exceed it.
Obviously we need to fire the people who report out the budget deficit.
Probably Obama’s fault.
