Cheerful Charlie
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https://www.cbpp.org/research/feder...ts-for-the-wealthy-proposes-deep-program-cuts
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The House Republican budget plan for 2019, which the House Budget Committee adopted on a party-line vote on June 21, would retain the costly tax cuts enacted last year — which primarily benefit the well-off — while making deep cuts in health care and basic assistance for struggling families and severely cutting funding over time for investments that can boost the nation’s productivity and thereby foster economic growth. The budget would cut more than $5 trillion from non-defense programs over the next decade (2019 through 2028). Half of these cuts would likely come from programs that aid low- and moderate-income individuals and families.
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$2.1 trillion in cuts to health programs, including $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits and $537 billion in Medicare cuts. The budget incorporates the ACA repeal legislation that the House passed last year, which would cause 23 million people to lose health coverage by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) 2017 estimate.
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We now have GOP Congress clowns bellowing the future deficits are a national emergency. Demanding deep cuts in spending, not deep cuts in the tax cuts creating the deficits.
I have been disappointed in the utter lack of news media's attention to this situation. Remember that most of the GOP members have signed Grover Norquist's pledge to never ever raise taxes. Of course the shift of the House to the Democrats will be a problem for the GOP, but the Senate may not be willing to do the right thing because the GOP controls that.
Perhaps if we are lucky, some of the Democratic presidential candidates will make this an issue early on.
Unfortunately, the Trump scandals seem to leave no room for discussing the insanity of our economic disasters to come.
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The House Republican budget plan for 2019, which the House Budget Committee adopted on a party-line vote on June 21, would retain the costly tax cuts enacted last year — which primarily benefit the well-off — while making deep cuts in health care and basic assistance for struggling families and severely cutting funding over time for investments that can boost the nation’s productivity and thereby foster economic growth. The budget would cut more than $5 trillion from non-defense programs over the next decade (2019 through 2028). Half of these cuts would likely come from programs that aid low- and moderate-income individuals and families.
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$2.1 trillion in cuts to health programs, including $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits and $537 billion in Medicare cuts. The budget incorporates the ACA repeal legislation that the House passed last year, which would cause 23 million people to lose health coverage by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) 2017 estimate.
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We now have GOP Congress clowns bellowing the future deficits are a national emergency. Demanding deep cuts in spending, not deep cuts in the tax cuts creating the deficits.
I have been disappointed in the utter lack of news media's attention to this situation. Remember that most of the GOP members have signed Grover Norquist's pledge to never ever raise taxes. Of course the shift of the House to the Democrats will be a problem for the GOP, but the Senate may not be willing to do the right thing because the GOP controls that.
Perhaps if we are lucky, some of the Democratic presidential candidates will make this an issue early on.
Unfortunately, the Trump scandals seem to leave no room for discussing the insanity of our economic disasters to come.
