Trump-GOP Tax Bill Cuts Medicaid, SNAP To Give Handouts To Billionaires
Trump-GOP Tax Bill Cuts Medicaid, SNAP To Give Handouts To Billionaires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gaiK08hph0
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Trump Team’s Stunning Ignorance On Full Display During Noem’s ‘Habeas Corpus’ Flop
Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know basic things about rights and abilities granted to Americans in the Constitution. She reaches for any bullshit she can to justify illegally expanding Trump’s power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZH2dQcwyQ
An End to Tax on Tips
Tip culture is already out of control. This can only make it worse.
“the Senate passed the No Tax on Tips Act 100–0, which “creates a federal income tax deduction of up to $25,000 a year for certain types of cash tips for eligible employees,” per The Washington Post. (“Cash tips” include tips given not just in cash but also via credit and debit cards.) This applies to employees earning $160,000 or less annually.”
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“If you actually wanted to help the household budgets of working-class people, the best thing you could do is refrain from imposing 10 percent across-the-board tariffs (and more for goods imported from China). It’s not clear to me that no taxes on tips, though President Donald Trump touted it repeatedly from the campaign trail, will do all that much, or that there was a ton of accurate tip-reporting happening in the first place.”
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“creates an opportunity for people to try to categorize their normal income as tips, and how much they can now get away with remains to be seen.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/21/an-end-to-tax-on-tips/
America’s Credit Is Falling—and the Government Is Still Digging Deeper Into Debt
“the mess is real, and it’s because habitual deficit financing—the very disease fiscally-minded Founding Father Alexander Hamilton warned against—has become business as usual.
The reckoning comes as House Republicans push to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts with a “big, beautiful bill.” If handled correctly, it’s a good idea. But while the legislation aims to avoid tax hikes, it pairs modestly pro-growth provisions with a smorgasbord of costly special interest giveaways. Worse, it assumes we can afford yet another $3 trillion to $5 trillion in debt without serious consequences. That’s the kind of magical thinking that spurred the credit downgrade.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/22/americas-credit-is-falling-and-the-government-is-still-digging-deeper-into-debt/
Trump’s FTC Chair Is Continuing To Push Lina Khan’s Antitrust Ideology
“Congress established the FTC in 1914 to prevent unfair competition and deceptive business practices. This has primarily meant “protecting Americans in their role as consumers,” according to Ferguson. The FTC enforces the Clayton Antitrust Act, which outlawed price discrimination between customers, exclusive dealing, interlocking directorates, and mergers or acquisitions that “substantially reduce competition.”
But Khan was more interested in Americans’ role as producers than consumers. In 2022 she signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Labor Relations Board to “protect workers against unfair methods of competition, unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and unfair labor practices,” such as restrictive contract provisions. In August 2023, Khan signed a similar MOU with the Department of Labor recognizing both agencies’ shared commitment to protecting workers from deceptive earnings claims, restrictive noncompete and nondisclosure contracts, and the “impact of labor market concentration.”
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Ferguson’s endorsement of the 2023 joint merger guidelines, along with his hostility to the tech industry and support for enforcing the anti–price discrimination Robinson-Patman Act, all suggest a continuation of Khan’s activist antitrust ideology. The Joint Labor Task Force is yet more evidence.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/22/new-ftc-boss-same-as-the-old-boss/
DC Shooting Kills 2, House Passes ‘Beautiful’ Bill, Trump Falsehoods on South Africa | The Headlines
Pro-Palestinian terrorism in the U.S..
Trump spreads misinformation about South Africa live in front of the South African leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtrhOdAPqCs
Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed
“Last night, outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., two Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed by a gunman who yelled “Free, free Palestine” after being taken into custody. The deceased—Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26—were set to get engaged to one another; Lischinsky was planning to propose next week in Jerusalem.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/22/israeli-embassy-staffers-killed/
Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed
“Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passes the House…It passed narrowly, 215–214, with one voting present, and now faces the Senate.”
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“This bill will extend the 2017 tax cuts that were passed during the first Trump administration.”
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“The old $30,000 cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions will be raised to $40,000 (a bit of a concession to Republican representatives and constituents from New York and New Jersey). Border states will get big chunks of change to offset extra immigration enforcement costs under the Biden administration (or so the framing goes). There’s some reduced Medicaid and food stamp spending, cutting federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $267 billion over the next decade. The child tax credit will be expanded.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/22/israeli-embassy-staffers-killed/
Is Trump Losing? A Debate | The Ezra Klein Show
Many people living in the early days of an authoritarian government didn’t realize they were in an authoritarian country. Democracy often slips away over time, rather than ending in one dramatic coup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ged_bdGix28
The New Stadium Scam Is a Server Farm
“La Porte, Indiana, is a small city between South Bend, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois. The recent announcement that Microsoft is investing over a billion dollars into a vast new data center campus in La Porte is expected to be transformational for the town of 22,000 people.
Microsoft was given a 40-year tax abatement on equipment, a renewable state sales tax exemption through 2068, and just $2.5 million of payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) over four years—roughly 30 percent of what it would normally owe. After that? Nothing. Local utilities would cover the infrastructure.”
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“there’s infrastructure. Data centers demand massive utility upgrades: power lines, substations, water lines, fiber, and roads. These are usually paid for by local utilities, state infrastructure grants, or ratepayers. In Kansas City, Evergy announced it would build two new power plants largely to meet data center demand—costs to be passed on to customers. In Northern Virginia, Dominion Energy’s data center grid upgrades are now a line item in statewide electric rate hikes.”
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“these deals are struck behind closed doors, insulated from scrutiny, and built on the assumption that any growth is good—even if it’s paid for by reaching into your neighbor’s wallet.”
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“Analysts project that data center capacity will more than triple by 2030 and estimate the U.S. will need to reach 35 gigawatts of capacity by then—double today’s total. The surge is largely driven by artificial intelligence (AI), which alone could account for 70 percent of all data center demand by 2030. These facilities already draw more electricity than some nations, and Goldman Sachs projects they’ll consume up to 9 percent of U.S. power by decade’s end. New builds are booming—yet much of that construction is being underwritten, piece by piece, by state and local governments chasing the illusion of growth.
Data centers are not a menace. Left to the market, they’re a genuine asset—critical infrastructure in a country trying to stay competitive in the age of AI. We don’t need to bribe the richest companies on earth to build them.”
https://reason.com/2025/05/06/the-new-stadium-scam-is-a-server-farm/