…The expected cuts to #RentalAssistance reflect #Trump’s broader desire to *shrink the footprint of government & its reach into Americans’ lives* [more like kill the #poor, party with the #rich, eradicate the middle], a project that includes sharp #cuts to federal #antipoverty programs viewed as *too generous or wasteful*.
Fuck the rich!
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor. -Victor Hugo
#Trump's tariff formula confounds the world, punishes the #poor
Ridiculed for trade #tariffs on frozen islands largely inhabited by penguins, Trump's formula for levies has a serious side: it is hitting some of the world's poorest nations hardest.
The math is simple: take #US goods #trade deficit w/a country, divide it by that country's exports to the US & turn it into a percentage; cut that figure in half to produce the US "reciprocal" tariff, w/a floor of 10%.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trumps-tariff-formula-confounds-world-punishes-poor-2025-04-03/
Disgusting: The majority of the nations listed for “reciprocal” #tariffs on the 8-pg document distributed to reporters by the #Trump admin are #poor, #developing economies. They include some of the world’s poorest nations -- #SouthSudan, #Burundi & the #CentralAfricanRepublic -- as well as countries in the throes of #war, notably #Sudan.
#Trump admin to cut funds to #PlannedParenthood
The #nonprofit said that 9 of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as #TitleX, which has supported #healthcare services for the #poor since 1970.
#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #BirthControl #AbortionIsHealthcare #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/
Brian Eno, cont'd >
> Q: Why do you think you should be paying more #tax?
>> BRIAN: I would like to live in a pleasant, comfortable #society, and to do that means you have to reduce the number of #poor people....I don't like the thought that half of the population are struggling, and I don't think there's any need that they they should be struggling. There are plenty of people that are quite well-off like me who would be happy to share their #money a little bit more than they do.
>>
Abbott skewers Starmer on cuts
Keir #Starmer has been urged to stop referring to his plans to slash the benefits budget by billions as being “moral”
Mother of the House Diane Abbott told Starmer, “there is nothing moral” about taking an axe to social security net
“This is not about #morality, this is about the Treasury’s wish to balance the country’s books on the back of the most #vulnerable & #poor people in this society.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25020810.diane-abbott-skewers-keir-starmer-benefits-cuts/
#Trump’s #tariffs – and retaliatory tariffs being imposed on American exports by #US trading partners – will be paid by #America's #workingclass and #poor.
The people who will benefit most from another giant Trump #taxcut are America’s wealthy.
Tariffs are in effect #taxes on imported products. They’re paid by Americans.
Walmart’s CEO said it will raise prices in response to Trump’s tariffs in order to protect its profits.
It will be a giant upward transfer of wealth. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/trump-tariffs-robert-reich
#LeeZeldin’s move effectively ends 3 decades of work at the #EPA to try to ease the #pollution that burdens #poor & #minority communities, which are frequently located near #highways, #PowerPlants, #industrial plants & other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those #communities have higher rates of #asthma, #HeartDisease & other #health problems, compared w/the national average.
The #Trump admin intends to eliminate #EPA offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of #pollution facing #poor communities, acc/to a memo from #LeeZeldin, the agency administrator.
In the internal memo, viewed by NYT, Zeldin informed agency leaders that he was directing “the reorganization & elimination” of the offices of #EnvironmentalJustice at all 10 EPA regional offices as well as the one in Washington.
#law #HealthEquity #Climate #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/climate/epa-closure-environmental-justice-offices.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=C43935C5-4152-411C-955E-D4777BEAF324
“How is Starmer's Labour so far to the economic right of Germany's incoming right-wing Chancellor?”
by Another Angry Voice on Substack
“It’s quite extraordinary that the Labour Party in the UK is operating far to the economic right of Germany’s incoming right-wing government, led by probably the most right-wing figure ever to lead the CDU”
#JuliaHub perfectly imitates #republicans
#warning this is #fun #comedy using #irony she does not mean it X-D
#healthensurance is for #poor people
#MatthewDesmond (Princeton University) in the #DailyShow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLN0YoErK0
You get the impression that #poverty is made and continued by design in the #USA. And there is almost no incentive for the #billionaires to end poverty at all, although they could very easily by just stopping #taxfraud or collecting the taxes that are already due today. 
#Money flows to the super #rich (which pay less #taxes!) instead to the people in need.
The #AmericanDream is an illusion.
What a shit country. What a shit system.
there is never enough #money for #education or #healthcare or #renewables, but always for #war: welcome to 1929 #revival party: with 90% tax rate for the #ultrarich #wealthy #superrich: "#French #economy minister floats taxing the #rich to fund #military buildup: To raise money for an increase in defense spending, #Paris is looking at tapping into “those with substantial savings” https://www.politico.eu/article/france-eric-lombard-emmanuel-macron-economy-minister-increase-defense-spending-to-3-percent-target/ #rich #poor #economy #wtf #bank #banks #france #europe #eu
#maga realize YOU HAVE BEEN FOOLED, #trump and #dodge #elonmusk do not care about #poor white or black or #taxjustice
all they care about is more #money for themselves and the already #waytoorich or #filthyrich #senatorwarren latest vid
#irs #staff got #doged good for #taxheavens #taxcheaters #oligarchy #tax #taxavoidance
#riseup before it's too late
make #Australia #greatagain #wtf
#austerity #politics is stealing from the #poor
#consultants tell richest woman in #Australia it would be great idea to copy #Trump and #Thatcher #wtf #economy #wtf #Australia burn the ... on #bigoil #biggas
#cantmakethisshitup
