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Trump Proposes a Record $4.75 Trillion Budget


https://youtu.be/O9F6EAMPky4?t=32s

President Trump sent Congress on Monday a record $4.75 trillion budget plan that calls for increased military spending and sharp cuts to domestic programs like education and environmental protection for the 2020 fiscal year.

Mr. Trump’s budget, the largest in federal history, includes a nearly 5% increase in military spending — which is more than the Pentagon had asked for — and an additional $8.6 billion for construction of a wall along the border with Mexico. It also contains what White House officials called a total of $1.9 trillion in cost savings from mandatory safety-net programs, like Medicaid and Medicare, the federal health care programs for the elderly and the poor.

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Cuts to everything that comprise America from the ground up, cuts to everything that sustain and grow America, cuts to the very foundational institutions of America and the American governments, cuts to things that benefit each and every person citizen and non-citizen alike, rich and poor alike, despite his endless promotion of himself as somebody who cares more about everything than anybody else, the legislation is dead on arrival (Republicans pushed the same legislation after Trump was inaugurated and there was a major battle over it and it went nowhere, but that is when the tax cuts were passed in response) but what the legislation symbolically represents is the Republican Party's feelings towards everything in America (not just the poor, the rich benefit from everything threatened with a cut): they don't care about America or anything in it, all they care about is funding soldiers with guns "because the constitution says so" even though the constitution says no such thing.

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I thought the point of leaning on NATO allies to pay more was to decrease the amount spent on "defense".

I also thought Mexico was going to pay for the wall and he wasn't going to touch Medicare/Medicaid.

At least the top 1% got their tax break! Comeon 1980's trickle down economics, you may not have worked back then but who knows trying it again can't hurt can it......

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Will my premium be trickled down to nothing since my health insurance provider 1) did not pay any federal taxes and received a $1.7 billion tax refund and 2) nearly tripled its net profit from not paying taxes? Anxiously awaiting the next billing cycle!

Health Care Service Corp., which operates Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in a handful of states, did not pay any federal taxes in 2018 and received a $1.7 billion tax refund, according to its latest financial report. The tax refund boosted the health insurance conglomerate's net profit to $4.1 billion last year, compared to $1.3 billion in 2017, according to Axios, which first reported about Health Care Service's tax refund.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5764214-Health-Care-Service-Corp-FY-2018.html
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/433555-blue-cross-blue-shield-insurer-didnt-pay-any-federal-taxes-in-2018-got-17

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you must have simply forgotten how Reagan turned around the US economy and set it on a course of growth and success during his term and years after he left office

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