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  I remember reading that their reasoning was because “they’ll cheat even more if we go after their taxes”. Like what kind of logic.
context: During the 300 speaker votes every single republican who nominated McCarthy talked about crime, boarder security, fentanyl, etc. with such urgency and passion. What is the first thing they do out of the gate?  Protect their wealthy donors of course!!! >
  
  Remember the first thing Republicans did when they came into power in 2017? Gut the ethics committee and pass tax cuts. What are they doing this time? Same damn thing. They're all criminals. >
  
  So anyway I started grifting >
  
  
  All you have to do is tell your peeps back home their neighbors are taking from their pockets and only you can protect them. They don't even notice when you rob them because they're too busy being angry and scared in their hometown to notice you in D.C. 
  
  -Grifter's Almanac: Politics >
  
  Is this a quote from a book I can’t find on Google or are you riffing on a Lyndon Johnson quote? >
  
  riffing like Tom Servo >
  
  And just like that all pretense of budget concern is gone from so-called "conservative" House leadership. Didn't even last one Mouche. >
  
  They’ve never passed fiscally responsible legislation. Republican policy has been responsible for a huge portion of our deficit increase - increased military spending, tax cuts for wealthy people, and unfunded bills. Increasing the deficit gives them justification to cut social services. They’re already planning on cuts to SS and Medicare.. probably to “reduce the deficit.” 
  The ACA is a great example of party differences - it insured millions while saving the government money. Republicans tried like 60 times to repeal it which would increase the deficit and leave millions uninsured. They don’t give a shit about governing.
  Edit: since this has blown up, please vote for a Dem in your next election to help stop this shit. If they’re not left enough, vote in your primary as well. Write your current and desired representatives to help them understand your beliefs. Also consider volunteering and donating to the candidates that best represent your ideology so they have a better chance at winning, or joining local activists groups to try and pressure politicians to change. >
  
  Yeah, fiscally conservative just means irresponsible policy at this point. >
  
  "Fiscally conservative" is just code for "I'm a nasty bigot but don't like having to argue about it"
  Laughing my entire ass off at the "fiscal conservatives" replying to this comment like I give a fuck what their smoothbrain has to say 😂 >
  
  Just like "Libertarian" now means "Republican but embarrassed to admit it". >
  
  I thought Libertarian meant "I feel special and don't have to share"? >
  
  "I like weed but fuck poor people" >
  
  Where do I go if I like weed AND poor people? >
  
  LA? >
  
  
  Progressive U.S. lawmakers on Monday took House Republicans to task after the Congressional Budget Office said the erstwhile deficit hawks' first bill before the 118th Congress—a measure critics say is meant to "protect wealthy and corporate tax cheats"—will swell the federal deficit by more than $100 billion.
  "They all run on reducing the deficit and now the House GOP's first... bill will increase the deficit by $114 billion," tweeted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). "Make it make sense."
  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the euphemistically named Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act—which faces a vote as soon as Monday evening—would "decrease outlays by $71 billion and decrease receipts by $186 billion over the 2023-2032 period."
  
  Ok, so this is the first law that will die in the Senate.  Whats next on the list?  The more time they spend on bills that will never get signed is fine.  They can pass crap like this all day.  And for what its worth, Biden has said he will veto it.   Not likely that the GQP will ever get to a veto-override on any of their bills in the next two terms. >
  
  True, but it's worth pointing out nevertheless. Hopefully it'll get through to future voters and they can see these asshats for what they are. >
  
  I upvoted you for your unbridled optimism that future voters will learn.  It’s been my experience that they become dumber and dumber each year. >
  
  They'll just forget because it's a dead bill >
  
  And bc it’s happening at the beginning. When voting comes around again they’ll be voting for things that’ll chum up their base and the base won’t even remember this. >
  
  They'll point to the Dems and say they want to tax you to high heaven and the media will help that message too. >
  
  And the same old tired "Republicans are better for the economy" rhetoric that's been around for half a century and has almost no bearing in reality. >
  
  It has bearing in reality, in the fact we aren't the economy to them. The corporations that line their pockets are. >
  
  It's all so goddamn short sighted. The regular people they fuck over are the ones making the big corporations worth anything. >
  
  As far as they see it, the regular people they fuck over exist for the purpose of being fucked over. Regular people are just here to do all of the undesirable work. Regular people are solely here to suffer so that the wealthy may prosper. Why would anybody care about their well-being? >
  
  I guess they want more pics. >
  
  Don't kink shame >
  
  It’s not a kink to want dick pics without consent. That’s called being a fucking creep. >
  
  Now if only I made enough money to be able to cheat on my taxes.... >
  
  You could try it my way.
  I simply make so little that when I pay my taxes, the government gets sad and gives me some back >
  
  My state keeps giving all of mine back and I’m like quit it and fix the roads you mushrooms! >
  
  Hey now, let’s not give mushrooms a bad name. Leave ‘em out in the sun and they’ll gather vitamin D. That’s a pretty cool thing to do, unlike leaving potholes everywhere. >
  
  The Republicans continue to defund the white-colar police.
  Specifically, they have pushed to defund:
  • The US Chemical Safety Board, which polices major industrial accidents.
  • The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which polices corporations’ compliance with civil rights laws.
  • The Consumer Products Safety Commission, which polices industries to make sure their products don’t harm or kill people. The agency now acknowledges that its “funding level has been insufficient to keep pace with the evolving consumer product marketplace.”
  • The Internal Revenue Service, which polices the tax system and which is responsible for making sure the wealthy and large corporations pay the taxes they owe. Thanks to this successful effort to defund the police, the agency “conducted 675,000 fewer audits in 2017 than it did in 2010, a drop in the audit rate of 42 percent,” according to ProPublica. With 30,000 fewer tax cops on the beat, a recent Treasury Department report found that 800,000 high-income households have not paid more than $45 billion in owed taxes.
  • The Department of Labor, which polices employers and makes sure they aren’t stealing wages, breaking workplace safety rules, ignoring overtime laws, and/or violating workers’ union rights. Amid this particular Republican effort to defund the police, there are now fewer cops scrutinizing employers than ever before and workplace inspections have plummeted – as workplace injuries, deaths and disasters have increased.
  • The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which polices the accounting industry.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission’s reserve fund, which was established after the financial crisis to bolster the agency’s work policing Wall Street. The agency reports that the number of law enforcement staff “supporting our investigation and litigation efforts remained almost 9 percent lower” today than it was at the start of Trump’s term – and now white collar prosecutions have hit a historic low.
  • The law enforcement agencies that police corporate mergers. This effort to defund the antitrust police has come as mergers have accelerated (and there has been some recent effort to reverse the defunding).
  • The independent law enforcement agency that policed agribusiness monopolies.
  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which polices the financial industry and works to protect consumers from fraud.
  • The law enforcement offices that police federal agencies and root out waste, fraud and abuse.
  • The federal program that polices local law enforcement agencies.
  • The Environmental Protection Agency, which is responsible for policing polluters. Trump’s first budget proposed to reduce EPA “spending on civil and criminal enforcement by almost 60 percent,” and laying off 200 environmental cops, according to the New York Times. By the middle of Trump’s first year in office, the EPA had “fewer than half of the criminal special agents on the job” during the George W. Bush administration, according to one environmental advocacy group. Bloomberg News noted that Trump’s most recent budget cuts “could hamper the EPA’s efforts to link contamination at hazardous waste sites to companies and others that may be responsible for the pollution.” The result: environmental prosecutions have now hit a historic low.
  Source post, with supporting links, here. >
  
  Basically 70% of Charles Koch's wishlist. So fucking transparent jfc >
  
  At this point, I think it's safe to say that modern support for the Conservatives' strategy comes from the areas:
  
  Greed (fill donors pockets)
  Ignorance (refuse to accept contrary evidence)
  Intolerance (us vs them mentality, with 'them' being non-white non-republican)
  Gullibility/Stupidity 
  
  Too many people forfeiting their ability to make an informed opinion, handing their vote to mainstream media and politicians that lie to them regularly and would abandon them at a moments notice if it means more money or control. 
  At the end of the day, some people will just refuse to learn, and that's their prerogative. 
  I hope they one day step outside of themselves and realize just how much of their life is a lie. >
  
  
  Ignorance (refuse to accept ~~contrary~~ actual evidence)
  
  The Republicans are the contrarians - they are the fake news, they are the "alternative true", they are the ones making up their own eViDeNcE to suit their own agenda, even if what they call evidence is made-up nonsense.
  That's why I had to FTFY. >
  
  Grifting is their number one priority, this is clear. >
  
  Oh man, on r/conservative they think this doesn’t go far enough and they should just abolish the IRS and the ATF and the FBI. Jesus Christ, these nut jobs want to live in a third world country….. >
  
  I came in here to ask how they’re spinning this to their base…I should’ve known. >
  
  Yep, they somehow think the increased budget is going after them, probably in the upper middle to lower classes. I mean, they need the funds to collect money from the extremely rich tax cheats that don’t pay their fair share. These numb nuts think that if we get rid of them now, when I’m rich, it won’t be a problem. Absolute fools. Republicans would bring back child labor if they could and republican voters would happily send little Johnny to the coal, who no longer has OSHA or EPA oversight…… >
  
  I guess they didn’t see the $400k part in the IRS funding, because otherwise they wouldn’t worry about it >
  
  They did, but they fear that they will become subject to it if they ever make over 400k.
  Problem is, you aren't likely to make over 400k unless you are a good business operator, high level trade management, or your side hustle is something in entertainment and you got successful at it. Good fucking luck making 400k at a labor intensive trade even working as a government contractor. >
  
  Sometimes I wonder if these kinds of arguments would be possible to quell if we just put everything in terms of wages rather than salary. Most people (especially the types who are afraid the IRS is coming after them for their shitty $17.63/hour lower-level management position) just don't have the ability to comprehend the size of a number like $400k, not to the extent they need to, at least.
  For example, "You won't be subject to new IRS policing if you make less than $192.31/hour, assuming full-time." Honestly, more people would probably be likely to believe that a wage like that simply doesn't exist, despite the existence of million- and billionaires who pay themselves much more than any measly six-figure salary. >
  
  If you’re going to have a government agency, you should fund it enough that you can actually talk to someone on the phone, for cryin out loud >
  
  Yup. I say add 10x the employees if that's what it takes. >
  
  It won't go through.  Nothing by this house will. It's all political messaging to a base that they think doesn't want the irs getting back taxes from rich people. But why is the Republican base like this ? >
  
  Because they think that some day they will go from a slightly above min wage job to becoming a billionaire, and when that happens, they don’t want the IRS around.  It’s the american dream.  Look a sports player that get offered multi-million dollar contracts and fans go “Player was robbed!!  Worth twice that!!” As they pass buying a second $22 beer at the stadium they financed because they don’t have the money. >
  
  They are extremely stupid people yes. But can't someone like a wife or smart daughter step in and help them ? >
  
  Not only do they believe that they're all temporarily disgraced billionaires but they're also all "godly" people while the other side is nothing but literal "demons" hiding in skinsuits so even if you point out the first fallacy you have to hurdle the second & then they come back with "...but all politicians lie so I'm just gonna go ahead & vote R..."
  They have to specifically be harmed by something they championed to even begin to see through fog & even then it's a crap shoot. >
  
  Last part so true. Esp with abortion >
  
  Countdown to December's Government shutdown due to Republicans. Federal Employees and Military expect to experience 3-4 months of no pay. >
  
  I am once again thankful that we at the USPS are 100% Republican-proof. >
  
  You sure about that? Look up Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of USPS Louis Dejoy and how he’s trying to gut USPS. Another leftover problem from Trumps presidency >
  
  He tried to chop and screw the USPS for about three weeks, got smacked down immediately, and has done nothing else for the remaining three years. I'm feeling pretty good about how impotent he's proven to be. >
  
  Except for the million dollar machines he had disassembled and left out in rain. >
  
  Yep, that would be part of the desperate three weeks. >
  
  The stack of dead bills in the next 2 yrs will reach the moon. >
  
  They know this. Bills that have convincing names that are turned down will make dems look bad because dems shut it down. It would be all over Fox News. >
  
  I like how they gave the bill a wholesome name like "we protect small businesses and families from tax demons" and the bill is just one sentence that says "we're defunding the IRS."
  You know, because they just got funded in order to audit millionaires more efficiently. >
  
  They're all a bunch of immoral law breakers and liars now. Trump broke that party like a pinata. >
  
  Uhm, they have been doing this since the 70s.
  Look at deficit under Dems vs. under Rs, Rs always explode the deficit while screaming "we are all about reducing the deficit!" >
  
  They know this bill has no chance of becoming law.
  It's all about their current "boogeyman issue" of the IRS that they've been scaring their voters with. >
  
  The voters should want the IRS. If you are doing nothing wrong you got nothing to hide... >
  
  Thought they were concerned about inflation? Doesn't seem like this will help that any. >
  
  We can turtle their bullshit in the senate for 2 years. If Mitch can do it, we certainly can too. >
  
  I'm glad I live in a state that progressed past medieval religious fundamentalism because states are going to be doing most of the legislating for the next 2 years at least. >
  
  The deficit is only important when Dems are in charge. >
  
  This myth that the republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility should die already.  I can't believe people still believe it. >
  
  These are insurrectionist and a terrorist group in that building and we are allowing it! >
  
  There is no reason left to vote Republican.  No reason at all.  Even for formally one-issue voters.  And I'll admit I used to be a pretty much one issue voter.  But there is no reason, anymore, no matter what your one issue was.  Unless you happen to be an insanely rich and evil person.  That's really the only demographic left for the GOP, and that should be terrifying.  Because even though that's a tiny minority, that's a tiny minority with A LOT OF POWER, and the malicious will to use it. >
  
  It’s all about getting more money in the hands of rich folks, the middle class and poor folks can kick rocks.  The middle class is getting crushed.  Shitty service jobs serving the rich and credit card debt is what the middle class, or what’s left of it, have to look forward to. >
  
  A big challenge is that politicians have made sure people cant tell apart Elon Musk/Bezos from their dentist when talking about "rich people" and taxation, thus pitting people against each other and preventing any form of useful discourse. The middle class gets caught in the cross fire. >
  
  Republican voters are so gullible it’s ridiculous >
  
  Wow, so demolish ethics rules first, and then attempt to blow up the deficit.
  Can any Republican explain to me why this is what you keep desperately clamoring for? 
  They. Don’t. Give. A. Fuck. About. You. 
  They literally prove time and again that they’re not “fiscal conservatives” in any way. They trigger you to vote for them by screeching about illegals and all sorts of other dumb, non-existent shit just to get your vote and then do literally nothing to quell the fears they’ve stoked in you. 
  Why the fuck do you want this stupid shit so badly? >
  
  Well....just goes to show
  Republicans don't give a damn about budget deficits when it comes to their agenda.
  Right Repubs? >
  
  anyone that thinks the IRS is the bad guy definitely  us cheating in their taxes >
  
  What do you mean!? I thought this was part of the Republican bill, formally titled the “Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act."
  No way this bill is about enabling tax cheats! >
  
  Fortunately, the Dems still hold the senate.  The house can pass all the things they want but it'll never make it into law.  They do this all the time.  They're showing their colors and why they should be thrown out in 2 years. Why Americans are too stupid to remember is really beyond me.
  If we had ranked choice voting to get viable 3rd parties and their ideas into the mix the GOP would be history. >
  
  It's not about setting policy or passing legislation. It's about having a convenient slogan to Tweet so the masses get brainwashed. >
  
  Of course this is their highest priority. It accomplishes the two main objectives for the gop: stop taxes and cripple the govt from being able to function. 
  Half of the govt is literally suffocating the other half and calling it patriotism. >
  
  
  "Once again," said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, Republicans are "putting politics over poor and working people." 
  
  Exactly. Letting wealthy tax cheats get away with it helps NO one else. It harms this nation. 
  Just wow... >
  
  Republicans move right away when they act for themselves and their donors interests. >
  
  Biden can order IRS to redirect all audit efforts on specific 'groups'.
  IRS should go after big fishes anyway. Perhaps bonus program for the agent to get 5% of any tax penalties over $1 million. >
  
  Problem is the big fish have no problem hiring an army of lawyers to fight the critically underfunded IRS, which really only goes after the slam dunk cases because that's all they can budget for. >
  
  Just watch far-righters cry about the need to add to deficit to ease the ”plight of the super rich.” >
  
  Kevin McCarthy looks so happy in all these fucking photos and it makes me sick >
  
  Coming soon! GOP blames Dems for deficit and lack of funds. >
  
  Please keep hammering them over this. >
  
  Really looking forward to some stupid fucking bills being sent to senate for the next two years /s >
  
  This headline is exactly what Dems have to do. 
  Figure it out. Control the narrative. >
  
  So fucking sick of GOP bullshit. I'd be sick of Democrat bullshit too but at least they aren't majority full of lying bullshit spewing wasps with a deep love of the bible >
  
  Same old story. When in power GOP can give less than a fuck about the deficit but when out, all they do is screech. Its the same old shit for decades now and morons still fall for it. >
  
  Dems need to brand this hard and not be wussies about it.
  "Tax cheats" is a perfect phrase to get out there and keep saying regarding this. >
  
  Remember when GOP was complaining about the US wasting money by being in the Paris Climate treaty, or literally anything else? >
  
  Phony fiscal conservatives. Never again republican. >
  
  The QOP go on and on about securing the border, immigration, crime, etc. 
  How do they propose to fund the solution to their pet issues if the IRS I'd gutted? >
  
  Once again protecting their rich donor class. >
  
  Democrats need to use this as an economic piece saying they’ll have to push for higher taxes to PAY for the tax cuts to the wealthy…again >
  
  fIsCaL cOsErVaTiVes >
  
  Thank God the dems held the Senate. >
  
  All these thumbnails of McCarthy smiling with the gavel. 
  Never had anyone taken so much personal joy in ruining their country. >
  
  Good thing this dies in the Senate >
  
  Alderaan's last words. >
  
  $114,000,000,000 is ridiculous >
  
  I don't get it. This kind of bill is DOA. >
  
  Has any economist ever did a chart of which party’s policies, not which Presidencies — because often we see a President inheriting poor policy — but which policies have ballooned our deficit the most? >
  
  Democrats need to use their platform to YELL this as loud as they can TO the republican base! 
  Lets get some adds on fox news or something and fix partisan gridlock with some partisan points of sanity injected right into the bubble. Doesn’t seem like rocket science to me! >
  
  And just how will they go about yelling that to the base? The GOP base is unreachable. >
  
  We have an up and down problem that’s more severe than a left and right problem >
  
  When the Dems take back the House, after all their spending, they will cry about the deficit, say it's the Dems fault since Dems control the House, and block any spending and any measures to reduce the deficit. >
  
  It's dead immediately, since neither the senate nor the president will pass it.
  I wonder, do they really think this is what will help them in '24?  It's strange. >
  
  It was never about curbing the deficit. It’s nothing but bad faith bullshit with these dudes. >
  
  What is this, GTA? How do I enable tax cheats? >
  
  Why does this headline (like so many others) focus on the apparent response from the other side as opposed to the actual story? A far more succinct and useful headline would just be “House GOP Introduces Bill Adding $114 Billion to Deficit By Enabling Tax Cheats”. I don’t understand how we got to the point that the “clap back” or the “blast” or the “slam” is the relevant part of any given story. Like yeah sure it’s good to note that democrats are criticizing this dumpster fire of a move, but that’s not the real meat and potatoes is it? The actual story that should be the focal point is that the republicans (who campaign endlessly on reducing the deficit) are doing the exact opposite of their promises just like anyone with a brain would expect. It’s just bizarre to me how so much of our discourse skirts around the bits that matter in order to pump up the fanfare and theatrics. >
  
  Nothing they do will pass the senate. It's all performance for their knuckle dragging base. >
  
  McCarthy with the gavel is as happy as Gollum when he got the ring back… and then died. >
  
  Rob the middle class. Blame the libs.
  Rinse. Repeat. >
  
  Weird it’s almost like Republicans don’t actually care about the economy and they really only care about lining the pockets of the wealthy people who run the country already…
  It’s almost like the Republican party has been ally for at least the last 50 years
  It’s almost as if they know if their last chance to plunder and help save the rich people before a real French revolution style change comes to the United States.
  It’s almost like the Republicans are a party full of liars and cheats he will say and do anything including inciting an insurrection, in order to maintain power all at the behest of rich corporatist billionaires >
  
  To vote on the conservative side of politics you must first relinquish any and all brain power. They don’t use those things there. >
  
  All budget and deficit concerns are now gone in the House with a Republican majority.  Why?
  Republican "Starve The Beast" philosophy says debt doesn't matter if it's caused by more big tax breaks and subsidies for their crony billionaire campaign contributors.  
  Democrats' attempts to balance the budget will be criticized by Republicans as a giveaway to the undeserving poor (black people) and a treasonous existential emergency for our economy. >
  
  The Republican Party is the “give more money to rich people and fuck everyone else” party. That is their one and only goal or concern. All the rest, the hate, the racism, the guns, the religion, all of that is bait, just smoke and mirrors that they use to get impoverished rubes to vote for giving their taxes to rich people. The really sad part is that it works every single time, all so ignorant assholes across the country can say, “at least I’m not some liberal who wants their tax dollars to help people and make life better for average Americans!” >
  
  When!What!Will it take for dumbass fucking Americans to realize the Republican party was bought and paid for by big oil, tobacco, firearms and industry long ago. They dont do shit for the common man other than increase the amount future generations are footing the bill for. Now you retired folks are gonna see just what ole Uncle Scam has in store for you. Less money, less help, less common sense policies, more debt, more bigotry, more shit show. >
  
  But what happens one day when I become a billionaire? 
  /s >
  
  Ah yes, keeping the 'Murikan Dream alive for all... /s >
  
  They can’t pass anything because the Democrats hold the senate. End of story to this and all other Republican moronic maneuvers through the next two years >
  
  Selfish monsters >
  
  Been saying this for a while now. Very telling that the literal first legislation to be put out there and passed by the republican house increases the deficit. I could have sworn that during the house leader debate, fiscally responsibility was a point brought up. Funny how that vanished. >
  
  Repubs want to take care of their rich donors. >
  
  Weisselberg would have avoided millions in taxes until Trump org was investigated.
  This is rampant all over. >
  
  It's fucked up because they don't even have to get anything to pass. They'll just use this shitty bill dying in the Senate to screech about how Dems don't care about the people or some shit, and you know that their absolute negative brain base will happily gulp down that trash slime shake they were just given and screech with them. Dude... I fucking hate this, I'm so sick of it. Like, is this ever going to end? Congress is where our democracy goes to die, also why aren't the people involved in the vote to appoint people to committees and shit? It's all these assholes just doing reach arounds and appointing themselves, like we have an election denier on the homeland security committee... You think sane people wanted him there? Fuck no. >
  
  They didn't even start investigating the FBI and DOJ before they took care of the super rich. First things first. >
  
  And there you have it -the useless, worthless, scumbaggiest congress ever. They won't get a goddamn thing done, but they'll punish working Americans. >
  
  Conservatives are getting exactly what they want. This country sucks. I only feel that way because I’m not flush with generational wealth. America needs Canada’s suicide plan. >
  
  Fuck the GOP! Americans get what they vote for! >
  
  Idiocracy gets what it wants. >
  
  If the bill fails: "Democrats BLOCK bill that would REDUCE taxes"
  If the bill passes: "Deficit INCREASED $114B under BIDEN" >
  
  "Heads I win, tails you lose." GOP messaging strategy. >
  
  The Republican Party actively tries to create a dystopia every chance they get. They are vile human beings and so is anyone who supports them. >
  
  TIL "less taxes" = "dystopia". >
  
  Ok GOP, meanwhile sites let Etsy, where God forbid we peasants can make a few bucks, now require your Social Security number to her an account. I've been told " Oh just give it them, it's not a big deal ".
  Big deal to me. Something about if you earn what, $600 or more better make sure we're paying taxes on it! Also am NOT entering my Social Security # anywhere to be put in some cloud file, please no one explain about ' good ' security. We've witnessed site after site hacked- it's not a given that information will remain private.
  But sure. Give an open invitation to gazillionaires to ( still ) pay almost nothing, if anything?
  Side note her. 2 years in a row my 91 year old mother flaked on ELEVEN DOLLARS. 2 years in a row our school districts ( welcome to PA) sent a bill collector to her * door*.  Alllll surprised I went up a wall. Phone call maybe or better- fck the ELEVEN DOLLARS. Tax. The. Rich. >
  
  Pretty sure the SSN of the majority of Americans have already been leaked as part of several leaks in the past.  At this point, you should be more concerned about how to protect against identity theft then trying to safe guard your SSN to this extent. >
  
  Identity theft is not a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year! >
  
  Nothing is going to pass. How can it? >
  
  This is who they are. >
  
  Ugh all these pictures of them recently. Giant grins, looking like pigs in shit. >
  
  Does that disable achievements? >
  
  Doesn't that have to go to the senate and then the presidents desk for signature ? Or is there some clause where they can do it unilaterally ?
  If no unilateral power then this is just moot and just for headlines ? >
  
  Don't worry, senate will kill it. They will not get anything done until next election. I love democracy >
  
  Look at that picture. This man cut off his own balls just so he could bang that gavel. >
  
  What else do you think republicans will do? >
  
  That was fast. >
  
  And so it begins. >
  
  It’s not like they claim to be fiscally responsible or anything. >
  
  And the fucking of America begins >
  
  First you cut taxes on the rich (2017), then you say you have no money and have to cut programs. >
  
  Good thing Democrats control the Senate and the White House, so none of this matters? People need to understand this is a radical, right-wing House of Representatives now, and they’re going to do everything in their power to cause drama and chaos, even though it will ultimately result in nothing. Ignore them. >
  
  Came here to say this… this would seem just political theater unless they know it would pass the Senate or… god forbid, was a bipartisan bill that assumes the former, a need for also Senate support >
  
  He looks so happy with his gavel in all his photos. I betcha he tries to keep it when he gets voted out. >
  
  It wont get past the Senate but it's still well worth the Dems highlighting what the Republicans are trying to do and hence what they stand for. 
  The next two years will be spent by House Republicans trying to pass their bills that, if passed by the House, never get through the Senate (oh yeah, and trying to impeach Biden for whatever the hell they feel like). It'll be a complete waste of time (which is of course the idea) and definitely not in the best interests of the country. It will though allow the Republicans to point their fingers at the Democrats and say "look, they've done nothing!" because their extremely gullible voters will just lap it up (with the help of lying media organisations like Fox 'News').
  Hopefully 2024 will see the Republicans reduced to irrelevancy. >
  
  Yeah, it's pretty clear Republicans are all about cheating on their taxes and not paying their debts. That seems like the opposite of fiscal responsibility to me. Or maybe I'm just a chump for believing that you should pay your debts, because if everyone did what they did the economy would collapse. Our roads and bridges would also be (Well... also are) collapsing as well. Because unlike some fantasy book they might spank it to as teenagers, people will not come together and do that shit for free. >
  
  And in Florida all the poor tax payers are cheering for the rich. I don’t get it. I see old run cars here with “Let’s go Brandon” stickers. And “F*ck Solar” stickers in the Sunshine state. Absurd.
  Should read: old run down cars >
  
  We got the House boys! Time to KILL THE COUNTRY. >
  
  When they show you who they are…..believe it >
  
  So in 2 years we will make a committee to go over the corrupt GOP leadership that is happening now.