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markodochartaigh

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2. If we keep giving tax breaks to the rich

Reply to UpInArms (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 10:59 AM

Dec 4

and expect the dwindling earnings of the bottom 95% to pay for everything, the deficit will only continue to balloon.

Just don't blame the deficit on social safety net programs for the masses when it is due to give aways for the morbidly rich.

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Fortune: Two months into the new fiscal year and the U.S. government is already spending more than $10 billion a week se [View all] UpInArms Dec 4 OP

Sounds like the bill from TARP coming due. House of Roberts Dec 4 #1

If we keep giving tax breaks to the rich markodochartaigh Dec 4 #2