THE BEAUTIFUL BUDGET
I don't think it's very beautiful, from what I've heard about it.
No need to increase the military budget, let alone a la
We received WIC for a few months back when it was actual coupons for milk, eggs, bread, peanut butter, etc. My wife was in her final year of college, we followed the rules and got out of the program when she finished, and I've paid that back a thousand times since then.
It should be a stop-gap. Not a way of life.
Hope you guys returned all your library books on time, Dog the Bounty hunter is coming for those late fees otherwise!
Of course when Ins0 lived off of public handouts, it was a temporary thing to get him back on his feet to find a job as a middle-man for a landlord. Everyone else who accepts public assistance should be shot in the street.
What is more Republican than justifying why you deserved free things while claiming everyone else is despicable for benefitting from the same free things
The paradox of my existence is being such a massive misanthrope while fundamentally believing everyone should have a chance at being happy as long as their form of happiness isn't stealing happiness from others
What is more Republican than justifying why you deserved free things while claiming everyone else is despicable for benefitting from the same free things
The paradox of my existence is being such a massive misanthrope while fundamentally believing everyone should have a chance at being happy as long as their form of happiness isn't stealing happiness from others
Doubt you're going to beat chillrob in the misanthropy stakes. I think he just wants to sterilise literally everyone and let the whole board run out from scratch again.
Doubt you're going to beat chillrob in the misanthropy stakes. I think he just wants to sterilise literally everyone and let the whole board run out from scratch again.
maybe not a bad idea
The estimate savings are 700-800 bln over 10 years with estimated 8-10m people losing coverage because of working requirements and increased frequency of eligibility verification yes.What surprises you about that? A medicaid enrollee costs more than 9k/year.There are approx 80m people on medicaid and a quarter of them are adults without children who aren't disabled . Those are
I guess the bulk of the savings is supposed to come from people not filling out paperwork then?
The 20m who are childless adults, I'd imagine the overwhelming lions share of them either work or could get waivers based on caregiving/schooling.
I guess what I'm wondering is how many bros just playing video games and scrolling the gram all day are there to really kick off?
Perhaps people just suck at complying for various reasons, but if some type of system/awareness is raised that helps with that (likely at state/local level, especially in bluer states) then I'd think some of that savings dries up fast.
I would also think re the 9k # that the people not really using the medicaid much are likely the ones that aren't going to bother with the paperwork. So there wouldn't be as much savings there as the averages would indicate. If you're the type that is using 15k+ a yr on it, you are more likely to know how to fill out all that stuff. Really just from being in medical facilities on a regular basis.
This is just off the top of my head though, could be off.
The problem with the first few posts on this page is that I've been super consistent over the last 20 years on this topic. You putting words in my mouth might make you feel better about ignoring the issue, but that's all it does.
Big fan of helping people.
Not so keen on helping those who do not wish to help themselves.
The problem with the first few posts on this page is that I've been super consistent over the last 20 years on this topic. You putting words in my mouth might make you feel better about ignoring the issue, but that's all it does.
Big fan of helping people.
Not so keen on helping those who do not wish to help themselves.
You better shut the **** up and start coming up off those late fees dawg.
One of these days I should scratch that second South Park game off my TODO list. The Stick of Truth was pretty solid.
Those are all incredibly simple questions to answerSALT is a republican agenda. Solar panel subsidies reduces demand on the electricity grid which lowers prices for consumers. High income earners spending more taxable income helps everyone, including the government. Sending 1$ to the government does infinitely less for the system than spending 1$. And "not being able to aff
Hey joe the plumber , you should know that karen the expert should be allowed to deduct the 40k she pays for her 6M house in her wealthy neighbourhood, you know why? because not allowing her to deduct that is a republican agenda!
simple answer the fuq?
cordie paid for college + living expenses 20 years ago so everyone can do it now!
Pell isn't meant to pay for a Harvard education but pell grant will 100% cover all or most of the expenses associated with 2 years of community college and 2 years of state college. That is as true today as it was when I graduated in 2017
Republicans want SALT increases, not Democrats. Why would Democrats justify supporting SALT to Joe the plumber?
Pell isn't meant to pay for a Harvard education but pell grant will 100% cover all or most of the expenses associated with 2 years of community college and 2 years of state college. That is as true today as it was when I graduated in 2017
Republicans want SALT increases, not Democrats. Why would Democrats justify supporting SALT to Joe the plumber?
are you serious? democrats want to go back to when there was NO cap on SALT deductibility.
As for Pell grants, tell me where you are supposed to pay tuition and living expenses with 7400/year in the USA thanks (which is the absolute theoretical maximum, most people get less than that).
republicans in purple districts of blue states need to increase SALT caps a bit (they campaigned on that) because they won moderates with thin margins there, people who otherwise would vote democrat, people who have become almost single issue voters on the topic.
SALT cap was part of the trump tax cuts bill which expires this year and which Harris campaigned not to renew in any aspect lol.
Max pell grant is 11000 and community college is about 4k a year (5-6k if you want to be eligible for max pell)
State college is about 10k a year (13,5 if you want max pell)
You can also drag your feet or change majors because you can get pell for up to 6 years
Max pell grant is 11000 and community college is about 4k a year (5-6k if you want to be eligible for max pell)
State college is about 10k a year (13,5 if you want max pell)
You can also drag your feet or change majors because you can get pell for up to 6 years
All sources I can find claim 7400 is max but whatever.
What do you eat, how do you have clothes, where do you live, and do you move around, after tuition with a Pell grant?
You need a full time job at minwage to survive.
Meanwhile democrats are claiming it's moral and necessary to forfeit the 90k accrued by the nice ladies who went to major in fat studies.
And Joe the (democrat) plumber votes for it against his own interest.
And everything is normal like that because low iq/low education/low information voters are going to be raped by both parties no matter what.
Republicans aren't doing it more than democrats
Literally all sources talk about the 150% provision for people who take summer school
People aren't meant to live solely off grants. I don't even know why you are trying to argue that. I certainly didn't say that.
I have no clue what you are talking about with the 90k accrued. I guess you are talking about student loan forgiveness? Its infinitely more moral and necessary to forgive loans used for education that it is to forgive loans meant to keep people employed that were used to buy boats, cars, and vacation homes. You don't get to support Republican agenda that forgave 500 billion in fraudulent PPP loans then pretend to carea bout student loans.
Also, you are in Italy. Get over it
Its hard for the European mind to wrap their brains around the promise land that is the US. We keep trying to tell you that you don't know jack **** about this country yet you keep insisting you do despite all evidence you don't
Literally all sources talk about the 150% provision for people who take summer schoolPeople aren't meant to live solely off grants. I don't even know why you are trying to argue that. I certainly didn't say that.I have no clue what you are talking about with the 90k accrued. I guess you are talking about student loan forgiveness? Its infinitely more moral and necessary to f
cordie check above how i started. You said low iq low income republicans vote against their interest. I am listing the reason why that's true for low iq low income people who vote democrat as well.
I know so little about your country, that i knew exactly which provisions were operational in 2020 for the border while you had absoluetly no clue and thought what Biden introduced in 2021 was instead introduced by Trump. Why did i know? because my relatives didn't have to take a test to go back home in 2020 while they did in 2021.
Grants aren't meant to be used to live solely off that. YES. Now then *why instead are loans guaranteed by taxpayers to higher class people covering living as well?*
Why are people with families with decent or higher income getting any subsidy at all to go to college, especially if they go and study useless crap or if they fail at it and drop out after a while? why do you think that's "infinitely moral" to subsidize mediocre people studying useless stuff by paying insane amounts of money?
are you serious? democrats want to go back to when there was NO cap on SALT deductibility.
It may have changed, but I recall the split was more along high tax/low tax states. Wasn't Schumer all-in on raising the limit?
Also, The Colonel strikes again.
It may have changed, but I recall the split was more along high tax/low tax states. Wasn't Schumer all-in on raising the limit?
Also, The Colonel strikes again.
Harris campaigned on letting all trump "tax cut" (TCJA) provisions expire, which means she campaigned on going back to no cap at all. Everyone who endorsed Harris endorsed that.
Not sure what you mean with "the colonel strikes again". If you mean in the sense that, yet another time, i know more about the USA than cordie, then yes.
Democrats campaigned in 2024 to get back to "SALT deductions should be unlimited".
The split is among republicans. Some of them want higher caps, the rest doesn't.
You subsidize people studying "useless" stuff because most people study "useful" stuff
Stuff that drives unparalleled levels of innovation and growth
Stuff that allows us one of the highest qualities of life in the whole world. Now, we've fostered a society that doesn't appreciate that quality of life, and somehow convinces itself we live in a 3rd world country, but anyone who has spent more than a few hours in a 3rd world country knows better.
Anyone who has spent more than a month abroad is well aware of the reality of the country.
You subsidize people studying "useless" stuff because most people study "useful" stuffStuff that drives unparalleled levels of innovation and growthStuff that allows us one of the highest qualities of life in the whole world. Now, we've fostered a society that doesn't appreciate that quality of life, and somehow convinces itself we live in a 3rd world country, but anyone who h
Pretty much all of America's significant growth occurred before those subsidies became common.
I've spent years in 3rd world countries and while America isnt there yet, we are definitely headed down that path with a shrinking middle class.
Dude, what?
We've been at a consistent 3-5% GDP growth for 60 years
3-5% consistent even as the GDP has exploded exponentially into the trillions of dollars
We are not heading towards Colombia levels of infrastructure. Its kind of ******ed to even suggest that
Dude, what?
We've been at a consistent 3-5% GDP growth for 60 years
3-5% consistent even as the GDP has exploded exponentially into the trillions of dollars
We are not heading towards Colombia levels of infrastructure. Its kind of ******ed to even suggest that
Never said the infrastructure, and it could start to resemble 3rd world in approx 50 years maybe sooner depending on how well the US dollar holds up.
We will have an elite class with very little middle class like a 3rd world country. We've already made significant "progress" towards that.
The standard of living for the working class/middle class will continue to go down.
Predictiong the future is hard. If AI/energy breakthroughs happen in the next 20-30 years like some expect then living standards probably aren't going down and things like the debt will become obsolete problems.
Predictiong the future is hard. If AI/energy breakthroughs happen in the next 20-30 years like some expect then living standards probably aren't going down and things like the debt will become obsolete problems.
Yes which is why you have to plan for the no ai scenario.
But if you believe superintelligent AI will necessarily come soon then it's rational to not plan for anything. We either solve material scarcity or get exctinct so there is nothing to plan for.
You subsidize people studying "useless" stuff because most people study "useful" stuffStuff that drives unparalleled levels of innovation and growthStuff that allows us one of the highest qualities of life in the whole world. Now, we've fostered a society that doesn't appreciate that quality of life, and somehow convinces itself we live in a 3rd world country, but anyone who h
Again tell that to Joe the democrat waiter raking in $10 per hour while you subsidize Megan the leftist lady fat studies
