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- sarahfailin1
This tax reform feels like the beginning of the end for America.
How are we going to pass an infrastructure bill, when just the $13.6 billion CHIP program can't even get passed? Orin Hatch (the program's creator) himself said "there's no more money!" while out the other side of his mouth assuring that it will pass.
Insurance premiums will be expected to go up an additional 10% per year (avg. 22-24% nationally) without the Individual Mandate, and an additional 13 million Americans will lose (or give up) health coverage.
Meanwhile we passed the biggest defense spending budget ever, prison population is through the roof, schools and infrastructure are falling apart, our standing in foreign relations is in free-fall, and our own domestic agencies are hamstrung because there are no competent leaders appointed to lead them.
Some people say that the tax reform bill was the dying gasp of the Republican party. "Grab everything while you still can!" kind of policy. Others are saying it no longer matters what the GOP does or says, that tribalism wins out over fiscal prudence, common sense, or any ideology.
Either the pendulum is going to swing hard to the left, and the GOP will be dissolved, or America is royally boned.
- Both. Although the "swing hard to the left" isn't going to be easy with 43% of the country utterly misinformed.allthethings
- Seems like America is in for a rough future. Not because of this bill, but because of the far right, white nationalist movement that Trump has normalized.yuekit
- Trump will be gone in three, maybe seven years. Probably dead in ten. But his idiot followers will still be around.yuekit