House Budget would screw the poor and give tax cuts to the rich

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The policies put forth in this document suggest that America’s main problem is that the poor have too much and the wealthy, too little. The budget plan “corrects” this perceived imbalance by deeply cutting programs that help low- and middle-income people, and cutting taxes on those with high incomes, capital gains, multinational corporations and “pass through” business income. Programs that provide affordable health coverage for the middle class (Obamacare, which they repeal) and the poor (Medicaid, which is “block granted”) face large spending cuts. Future elderly persons do not escape unscathed, either, as Medicare is “voucherized” beginning in 2024. The budget includes more than $1 trillion in unspecified cuts that would appear to fall on nutritional support for the poor and tax credits for low-income, working families.

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Even if this budget passes, and it could as rules don't allow for Senate filibusters for budgets, it wouldn't carry the force of law. Congressional budgets are just basically a plan of what they would like to do the same way Presidential budgets are. And what Republicans want to do is help the rich and corporations at the expensive of those less fortunate. Republicans can go **** themselves.



It goes without saying that at least for now, they won't be able to achieve their garbage agenda as they don't have enough votes in the Senate to pass bills necessary to achieve it and they definitely do not have enough votes to overcome the vetoes that Obama would issue if such bills hit his desk.



I'm pretty confident that they will won't win the White House in 2016, and even more so that they will lose Senate seats, but it is still infuriating to me that this is what they want to do if they gain the power to do so. People may think I'm over the top with my hatred of them, but they really do deserve it.