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New York Times offers a helpful graphic of who will have money taken away and to whom the money will go with Trump's big beautiful bill. The gift link is courtesy of Robert B. Hubbell.
"Tax cut extensions" = money flowing to the top of the economic ladder, to the already super-rich.
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"The bill’s changes to Medicaid will hit many of Trump’s own supporters, who tend to be poorer and more rural, the hardest. But there’s been no grassroots groundswell against the package. Instead, many Trump supporters seem to be operating on the assumption—this is becoming a theme—that it’s other people whom the cuts will hit."
~ Andrew Egger
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"With full knowledge of the struggles of everyday Americans and people all across the globe, these billionaires openly flaunted their wealth for all to witness, for all to covet, for all to loathe. ...
It is in this context – in this arrogant public display of obscene wealth disguised as a wedding – that we watch Republican Senators contort themselves to pass the GOP budget."
~ Michelle Hornish
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https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-wedding-cake
"This bill is so jam-packed with gifts for billionaires and corporations at the expense of everyday Americans that it’s nearly impossible to describe the full extent of its depravity."
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Rick Hazen on how the ultrarich — and Supreme Court — have reshaped presidential elections:
"New First Amendment attacks on the constitutionality of disclosure could soon bear fruit at an increasingly deregulatory SCOTUS. So we can expect a day when we may not even know how many nine-figure donors are out there seeking to influence our elections and our elected officials."
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https://law.yale.edu/isp/events/free-speech-crisis-limits-first-amendment
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