Remember that health care costs may be shifted from one payer to another, but they really cannot be “cut”. If the House budget becomes law, the cuts will be an another hidden tax increase on average Americans. Hidden in the sense that cuts in Medicaid will precipitate higher costs of uncompensated care, particularly for preventable conditions, and these costs will be passed along to people with private insurance and Medicare. Of course, some of the cost increases will be offset by premature death and disability, which also impose costs on families, employers, communities and state governments.
Similarly, cuts to federal education assistance will translate into higher costs borne individuals and families, by local school districts, colleges and universities, cities, counties and states. The costs will be lost economic opportunity for individuals, increase property taxes, and sales taxes levied by cities and states.
Congress will pretend they are cutting costs. What they are really doing is giving billionaires massive tax cuts, while shifting ever more tax burden on everyone else.
The budget cuts are a ruse. There are no budget cuts, as you point out. There are only income tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. I see the deficit hitting $50 trillion soon.
“Motivated by profit, self-serving by nature, billionaires should be nowhere near societal governance or world-impacting decision making. In times of crisis, especially when human welfare or human lives may be in the balance, billionaires should not even be allowed in the room.” —The Billionaire Condemnation Society
Remember that health care costs may be shifted from one payer to another, but they really cannot be “cut”. If the House budget becomes law, the cuts will be an another hidden tax increase on average Americans. Hidden in the sense that cuts in Medicaid will precipitate higher costs of uncompensated care, particularly for preventable conditions, and these costs will be passed along to people with private insurance and Medicare. Of course, some of the cost increases will be offset by premature death and disability, which also impose costs on families, employers, communities and state governments.
Similarly, cuts to federal education assistance will translate into higher costs borne individuals and families, by local school districts, colleges and universities, cities, counties and states. The costs will be lost economic opportunity for individuals, increase property taxes, and sales taxes levied by cities and states.
Congress will pretend they are cutting costs. What they are really doing is giving billionaires massive tax cuts, while shifting ever more tax burden on everyone else.
The budget cuts are a ruse. There are no budget cuts, as you point out. There are only income tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. I see the deficit hitting $50 trillion soon.
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Trump is a serial murderer.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-usaid-cuts-deaths-aids-hiv-b2708883.html
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“Motivated by profit, self-serving by nature, billionaires should be nowhere near societal governance or world-impacting decision making. In times of crisis, especially when human welfare or human lives may be in the balance, billionaires should not even be allowed in the room.” —The Billionaire Condemnation Society