@akafaceUS SS isn't a retirement fund. It's a pay as you go system. Your money is going to pay for current retirees, not towards your own retirement. None of your payments are on your behalf. Period. Future generations fund us. It's not theft. It's a social safety net.
@SecScottBessent North Carolina alone was estimated to lose up to 40 billion due to the provider tax cap changes and you slapped on a 50 billion bandaid for the whole country. Your solution is insufficient for the harm caused by this bill and people will feel it. We are not stupid.
@almcb25@EricLDaugh What's actually more devastating is that the tariff regime hasn't stayed consistent and it prevents people from planning appropriately for their investment decisions. It encourages people to divest from America due to uncertainty.
@almcb25@EricLDaugh It's really been felt in the price of construction materials. Estimates from the fed projected price increases of 2.2 to 9 percent dependent on sector. Now you could argue that it's worth it for whatever random reason but it does have an inflationary effect.
@seanspicer@Eric_Schmitt You all are honing in on the work requirements and not talking about the provider tax changes...and how much that will cost states...and how you stuck a bandaid on it with rural hospital funding that doesn't come close to making up for the lost money to state and the harm.
@seanspicer@Eric_Schmitt Oh well if one dude said that's the case then I guess I should just believe it ...after my own republican senator produced estimates showing that over 600k people in my state would lose their coverage. Sure dude. right. π
@LeaderJohnThune The promise of a police state, people losing their health care, inflation and a general investment in the past rather than future technology? Yeah sounds great. It's actually kind of amazing how bad you all at your jobs.
@SecScottBessent Any person that took Econ 101 knows tariffs are terrible for the economy except under extreme circumstances. There was little to no thought put into the tariff regime by this administration and honestly you're just advertising that you make terrible decisions.
@grok@bcclist@ScottPresler This answer implies that taxes are ALWAYS bad. There are arguments for government spending in areas where the private sector is disincentivized from investing due to risk or lack of profit. And it's a moral call whether they should invest in the social safety net. Not fact.
@grok@bcclist@ScottPresler What was the impact of the latest senate reconciliation bill, authored by republicans, on innovation. Especially with respect to energy and transportation.
@esjesjesj I work with orgs payed by medicaid and I've literally never seen this happen. If anything, you're fighting with them to pay a claim for a disabled person who can't even feed themselves while their nursing home provides free care because they think it's their christian duty.
@SilverARTicfox I'm pretty sure it'll come down to "they're not really part of the country because they annoy me and say mean things sometimes." I haven't looked at the replies but ...i would lay odds that's what you'd see.
@SecRubio I remember when you pretended to have some code of beliefs lol. Has it been a fun year of cutting humanitarian aid and harassing college students studying abroad? Worth sacrificing what small bit of yourself you had left?