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Politico: Mulvaney: Trump's budget shows 'compassion' to supporters [taxpayers]
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Your Entertainer
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So cognitively bankrupt. American voters are so dumb.
Host Samurai
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Macho Madness
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No money for the arts, give it to the military contracters and oligarchs instead.
PepsimanVsJoe
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Hey Mulvaney,
Kindly fuck off with that mess.
Kindly fuck off with that mess.
What about the voting majority who would probably disapprove of a 9% budget increase for DoD?
Even if this line of argument were valid, you don't have the legitimacy to say your budget reflects the will of the people. Nothing you ever do will, unless Trump gets re-elected by a real, popular majority.
Even if this line of argument were valid, you don't have the legitimacy to say your budget reflects the will of the people. Nothing you ever do will, unless Trump gets re-elected by a real, popular majority.
Garrett Hawke
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"Could I, as a budget director, look at the coal miner in West Virginia and say, 'I want you please to give some of your money to the federal government so that I can give it to the National Endowment for the Arts?'"
instead of asking the coal miner you could ask the many multiples of rich people whose interests you are protecting.
instead of asking the coal miner you could ask the many multiples of rich people whose interests you are protecting.
Username1198
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How do people fall for this? If I think what someone is saying is bullshit, I whip my phone out and fact check.
RPGCrazied
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That's not happening. His approval rating is in the 30's and dropping. He is a one term President or he gets impeached, resigns early.
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They don't operate on facts, logic or rationality.
Escape Goat
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I'm already so tired of winning. Can we stop winning so much?
Baron von Loathsome
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Showing that compassion toward students and children in poverty.
Sho_Nuff82
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Underemployed coal miners' hard earned money going to the national endowment of the arts is the funniest shit ever.
I'm just saying hypothetically. Frankly if he does get re-elected, it's going to be the same situation we had last year, unless voter rights get really fucked in the next three years.
Edit: Yeah, and cutting these tiny little programs is bullshit even if you compare it to a household budget. That's like if you went to an accountant who looked at your monthly budget and said "oh, you bought a Coke for $1.25 once. Try not doing that next month, that'll help" while ignoring the 15 restaurant meals you eat a month.
There's a huge line of discretionary spending in there that we simply do not need. If you want to talk about cutting waste, fix the military appropriations process . You could probably raise soldier pay and still make massive cuts to DoD if you just tightened up the contracting process.
Linkstrikesback
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The same way the vaccines = autism nonsense persists.
They look until they find an answer that matches the one they already decided on, ignoring anything they saw before that point, and immediately stopping.
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
I love how they act like they won with a large majority of voters and have some sort of mandate to do this. 2018 can't come soon enough to just make these fools lame ducks.
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
Lmao that is actually pretty absurd when you think about it.
RPGCrazied
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I'd rather give the arts money then the stupid wall he wants to spend billions on.
So instead you're asking these coal miners to enrich the businesses of millionaires/ billionaires who are climbing over themselves for the new government contracts you're writing up for the stupid wall and unnecessary additions to defense spending on top of the continued lack enforcement on corporate tax evasion/ fraud/ penalties.
That's my understanding as well to what he is saying..he's basically saying your taxes won't pay for the arts buts it's being put to good use..."trust" us. Or am I misconstruing this and is he saying he's cutting their taxes by cutting the arts.
I have no faith in a large turnout to vote on anything until after like 8 years of Trump. People are so lazy and don't pay attention to what's going on politically until it's late. Would be nice to be proven wrong. Too many people I know didn't go vote in this election because they don't think their vote would matter...
GoldenEye 007
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His supporters will only pay attention and support what the budget director is saying.
It's too simple of a statement for them to disagree with or challenge.
It's too simple of a statement for them to disagree with or challenge.
BoogieWoogie
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This guy has three kids. Imagine the monsters they'll become.
You should look up the tax proposal. Trying to simplify it to the arts is very disingenuous on their part. In fact, if you consider their coal miner example, this line of thinking becomes especially nefarious because part of the funding they are cutting explicitly affects coal miner housing and income supplementary programs.
On top of their medical!
Funny how they didn't use that in their example though.
StopMakingSense
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And the crazy thing is that the NEA helps buttress an industry that easily returns as much, and way more, in taxes.
SaviourMK2
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He was also never going to get enough votes to survive the primary. He was also never going to get the nomination. He was never going to be elected.
I'm not saying a re-election or impeachment isn't impossible.
I'm saying, theres been so much corruption since he announced his running and the sheer gullible-ness of his supporters that they probably will safely rig the next election thinking they can get away with it.
I have zero faith in the system right now.
OniBarubary
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Fall into a ditch and catch fire you fuckstain
I went with tax payers because that's seems to be the Budget Director only concern.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
You mean the thing that cost a few pennies a year?
Fuck off
Oh ok, my bad. Changed back and rearranged slightly.
poppedcollar69
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this is the same thing he was saying earlier. 'people are going to be much better off cause we're not taxing them!!'
yeah also there's not going to be a social safety net anymore but thats fine, people will all be rich once we stop taxing them
yeah also there's not going to be a social safety net anymore but thats fine, people will all be rich once we stop taxing them
StrikeNinja24
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Are we really sure about this? Do we really think that Republicans have learned their lesson? Or while we are on the subject, the DNC?
Since we are apparently deciding on where our taxes are going now; I would gladly allow you to spend my taxes on the arts, education, science, social needs programs, medicine vs. military.
How can you ask me to continue paying for the military when our nation's defense already surpasses every other nation's?
How can you ask me to continue paying for the military when our nation's defense already surpasses every other nation's?
Oh I agree that they are malicious in being disingenuous with the narrative they are trying to peddle. I should have said "arts" as I meant their general messaging.
I guess I was trying to see if their messaging was that they were cutting their taxes by cutting the "arts"(multiple programs that are actually beneficial to these voters).
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