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Quiet Em

(3,024 posts)
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:07 AM Oct 2025

Republicans will bankrupt people with expensive health care premiums so that billionaires can keep their tax cuts

And they have shut down the Government over it.

Republicans need to come to the table to fix the mess they created with their big, ugly, billionaire bill.

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Republicans will bankrupt people with expensive health care premiums so that billionaires can keep their tax cuts (Original Post) Quiet Em Oct 2025 OP
People are literally going to suffer and die for those tax breaks. Passages Oct 2025 #1
They are busy bankrupting farmers. Bankrupting small biz w de minimus removal & tariff taxes Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2025 #2
Stupid poor eaters won't die yet. 😡 I remember when their idea was... underpants Oct 2025 #4
Yeah, it was "go to churches", now the Thiel theology is "empathy bad, charity bad, it only encourages evil". . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2025 #5
Unfortunately they don't need to do anything. Biophilic Oct 2025 #3

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
2. They are busy bankrupting farmers. Bankrupting small biz w de minimus removal & tariff taxes
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:13 AM
Oct 2025

They rolled back regulations requiring money management companies from having to tell 401K / Roth / retirement investors about many fees.

They effectively closed the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (think I got the name right).

underpants

(197,201 posts)
4. Stupid poor eaters won't die yet. 😡 I remember when their idea was...
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:22 AM
Oct 2025

to end social services and let everyone go to churches for help. I’m sure you remember that too.

None of those bureaucrats and their pay meddling in peoples business plus people will be at the will of each church and must adhere to their conditions.
That wasn’t stated but that’s how I read it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
5. Yeah, it was "go to churches", now the Thiel theology is "empathy bad, charity bad, it only encourages evil". . . . nt
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:28 AM
Oct 2025

Biophilic

(6,684 posts)
3. Unfortunately they don't need to do anything.
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:16 AM
Oct 2025

This is their plan. We have to remember this if we ever regain even an inch of power. Negotiating with people who were ok with many of us dying early is not a winning strategy.

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