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gab13by13

(31,236 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 10:59 AM Jun 2025

Magats Say They Found A Way To Pay For The Tax Cuts

Mike Lee, Utah (the guy who told Krasnov to replace Comey with Merrick Garland) wants to sell off 450,000 acres of government land.

Let's not kid ourselves, they are going to pass this Big Ugly Death Bill one way or another.

Democrats need to do town halls, mainly in red districts.

Time Matters.

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Magats Say They Found A Way To Pay For The Tax Cuts (Original Post) gab13by13 Jun 2025 OP
No more national parks. Trump will sell anything if it benefits him and enriches his billionaire sycophants. Lonestarblue Jun 2025 #1
They can promise anything now, make it all look like a wash for the debt, and then not do it. dutch777 Jun 2025 #2

Lonestarblue

(13,227 posts)
1. No more national parks. Trump will sell anything if it benefits him and enriches his billionaire sycophants.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 11:07 AM
Jun 2025

dutch777

(4,880 posts)
2. They can promise anything now, make it all look like a wash for the debt, and then not do it.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 12:10 PM
Jun 2025

So they say, "will authorize sale of X lands" and then all sorts of administrative reasons happen that no sales actually occur. The bill supposedly already has a clause that at least some of the tax breaks will expire in 4 years. So when the CBO and others project the increase in the national debt it looks not too bad assuming that actually increase in taxes happens. When it doesn't happen, and if (heaven forbid) the Repugs are still in power in 4 years the actual debt net add basically doubles. The CBO has no choice other than to compute based on what the bill currently says, even though common sense and history says that being reality 4 or 10 years from now is highly unlikely.

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