The math of the G.O.P.’s goals makes the move almost unavoidable.

You know, the more time passes, the more I’m wondering if Trump lied when he said he wouldn’t touch Medicare / Medicaid. Surely he wouldn’t break a promise…

  • @[email protected]English
    68•3 days ago

    They could tax billionaires who benefit from public infrastructure like roads and laws and citizens at work and who won’t change their lifestyle for the lesser by paying taxes at all and it would fund most of the country.

    • @[email protected]OP
      29•3 days ago

      billionaires who benefit from public infrastructure like roads

      Oh, the billionaires don’t use up the roads: they fly from their overpriced condos’ helipad to their private yachts’ helipad to their mansions in the Hamptons and private-jet to their resorts on the Cote d’Azur.

      Those people never touch the ground - literally as well as figuratively.

      They do impose an insane cost on our environment however.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•3 days ago

        I meant more so their businesses that use trucks to ship things and deliver. Also having employees get to work, literally anything outside lol.

      • ThassodarEnglish
        2•3 days ago

        They still use air traffic controllers, which is a government paid job if I’m not mistaken. The government would also back them up if their private jet or heli encountered an emergency and had to land due to a failure with the aircraft. The government regulates when and how their private planes have to be inspected and ready to fly. The government provides the water that the employees that gas up and maintain the aircraft use, and the roads that get them there.

        So they may believe they don’t need the government, but it’s a big part of almost everything we do everywhere.

    • @[email protected]
      5•3 days ago

      The whole reason they want to cut medicaid is to justify their tax cuts for billionaires, so I don’t think that will help their depraved goal.