Team Trump möchte, dass die Armen leiden, um seine Steuersenkungen für die Reichen zu finanzieren

***From Rolling Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramirez and Andrew Perez:***

President-elect Donald Trump is looking to grant massive tax breaks to America’s wealthiest individuals and corporations, beginning with an extension and expansion of his 2017 tax cuts, which primarily benefited the rich. In order to offset the loss of tax revenue, Trump’s economic advisers are considering a plan that would punish the poorest Americans by making it even harder to access Medicaid, food stamps, and other federal programs, according to a Tuesday report from The Washington Post.

According to seven sources who spoke to the Post, all of whom were familiar with the discussion taking place in Trumpworld, the president-elect’s advisers — including Republican lawmakers — are floating new work requirements and spending caps on social safety net programs.

The proposals under discussion would likely increase inequality and hardship in America at a time when nearly 4 in 10 households are struggling to pay their bills. In this case, the cuts to America’s meager safety net would be used to finance an unusually direct transfer of wealth upward. A review of Trump’s 2024 campaign tax promises by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found his proposals, taken together, “would, on average, lead to a tax cut for the richest 5 percent of Americans and a tax increase for all other income groups.”

Among the options under consideration is imposing work requirements for Medicaid, which provides health insurance to 70 million low-income Americans. Medicaid enrollment is subject to strict income caps. The caps vary by state, but generally speaking, beneficiaries are not allowed to earn enough money to live. One state, Arkansas, previously enacted Medicaid work requirements, and quickly purged 18,000 residents’ health insurance coverage before a judge struck down the program.

Under federal rules, states are required to conduct eligibility checks once per year to determine whether Medicaid enrollees are poor enough to keep their health insurance. It’s well understood these checks often result in people being administratively purged from the program wrongfully, even though they qualify. Republicans are discussing having states do these eligibility checks multiple times per year.

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Billionaires call you the cattle class for a reason. No issue for them if some of the herd has to be culled for the bottom line.

But you know, if the herd gets pissed off enough and works together, those fences keeping us in start to look pretty weak.

The problem with the poor in America is that they just aren’t quite poor enough.

Fox Business pundits will call it a hoax and say Trickle Down economics is what Made America Great; MAGA Approved.

Good. I can’t wait for all these racist, misogynistic, dumb rapist supporting inbred MAGA trash to get messed four ways. I hope you get everything you hoped for and more. Not much will happen to people like me- made my money and we can weather it out. Tragic for those who fought against this and I hope you find communities that can help you. But MAGA trash—stay away from them and not even thoughts or prayers.

This is all stuff we knew before the election, Musk even told us, but before the election we got none of this speaking truth to power.

Lucky for me, my hard work and dedication will make me a multi-billionaire in no time! The only thing holding me back are those pesky immigrants and trans people /s

how bout all the workers just don’t care anymore either… do maybe 60% of production and then when the rich are not getting rich as quickly maybe they will start to realize what it takes to pick the crops, run the factories, build the buildings , roads

You could have stopped after the first 7 words.

It wont just be the current poor people. There will be less middle class after Trump. The poor population will skyrocket. I hope people revolt when it gets so bad. 

Most Americans were dumb enough to fall for Trump’s grift.  Again. We’re doomed all thanks to ignorant Americans. 

I make a pretty good income.  Enough that Trump tax cuts might be pretty good for me.  I voted for Harris. But if we want to elect Trump and have people in my own family (who are retired or make a lot less than me) wagging it in my face then fine. I’m on board.  Bring the hurt.  Give me more money. Crash the economy so I can buy their houses at fire sale and rent them back to them. Maybe then the people will decide sticking it to the libs is less important then their own well-being. 

Shoulda put his repeatedly bankrupt, perverted, cheating, grifting lying arse in prison but oh no, you had to elect him president.

I just don’t believe it.

I was told this pack of disingenuous grifters were going to fix the economy!

just try convincing the poor of that.

temporarily embarrassed millionaires, every one of us.

Households making under $30,000 made up 12% of the electorate. And these dumb fucks voted for Trump 42%

I did not vote for this, but it looks like my taxes will go down a little. So i have that going for me, which is nice.

If poor white people ever realized that they have more in common with poor black people than with rich white people, the Republican Party would be dead in a generation.

That’s the goal of every Republican presidency since Reagan so I guess it’s business as usual.

I feel bad for normal poor people. And also for the children of impoverished and/or disabled people: No child deserves parents who are too stupid to act their own best interest. But as for impoverished, disabled, and elderly Trumpvoters themselves, I don’t care in the slightest what happens to them. If they starve to death or die from rationing prescription medication, that’s perfectly fine with me. Never thought I’d feel so cold and borderline sociopathic toward my fellow citizens, but here we are.

Click-shit Headlines like this are why the media wanted trump to win

It’s crazy but Americans basically just elected a man to make the country objectively worse for most Americans.

Most of them don’t see it though.