“If we want to actually cut spending, this is a good spot to start,” said Pramila Jayapal, who voted against the bill.
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Both the left and the far right in France see the government budget plan as something of a class war budget.
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Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse. Read Post »
As budget cuts threaten to harm the rest of us, distorted spending priorities are making arms producers stronger.
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Richard Seymour describes Trump as moving toward “more instrumental and crudely material, transactional politics.”
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We already have the money for social programs. We just choose to spend it on war instead of on people.
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