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Why didn’t Trump do that?
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This will fund the replacement of lead pipes in water systems for 10 million Americans. Why didn’t Trump do that?
But Republicans are investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop!
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This will rebuild and strengthen the supply chain in America and create jobs.
As a result, Intel is building a factory in Columbus, Ohio. Thanks Joe!
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In the SOTU Biden introduced a steel worker who’s union workers will benefit from the work.
Does Cincinnati deserve it?
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@ILikePie5
So where does the money come from?
The way insurance works, if you hadn’t heard, is more people pay into the kitty than is paid out. The bigger the group, the more financially sound the insured group is. The less free riders you have, getting healthcare without paying anything, the lower the premiums.
Also, there’s a 1% tax on the upper middle class on income over $250,000 a year called the Additional Medicare Tax. So guys like me pay more so guys like you can have health insurance and not be a free rider. This money was used to expand Medicaid for the poor across the country in states that allowed the expansion.
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@ILikePie5
At the expense of the middle class. Money doesn’t grow on trees
That’s another lie. The middle class isn’t funding Obamacare unless you’re talking about middle class people who weren’t getting insurance before and then they simply wouldn’t pay their bills if they got sick.
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Those are some pretty shocking increases. People are literally going to end up dead because of Obamacare pricing them out of plans
That’s a lie. Obamacare made it cheaper for the working poor to get health insurance.
It's pointless. It costs 75 a week for the kid and 150 a week for adults. Add me to her plan and it goes up 150 a week . That is what the plan costs.
But you pay 150 for your plan, why not just be on your wife’s plan?
It's not a family plan my wife's insurance takes care of the kid.
What does this even mean?
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Oh oh, why aren’t you on your wife’s plan?
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Prior to FDR capping wages and forcing employees to create health insurance programs my understanding is that medical care was significantly more affordable.
You mean healthcare was more affordable when people died at 65 and we didn’t have hardly any miracle drugs? What a surprise
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No president in decades has weathered his first midterm election as successfully as did Biden, but in the end, Democrats still narrowly lost their majority in the House.
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Oh... you mean when he had full control of the Congress? Yeah...Democrats showing their true colors yet again.
So you’re too dense to understand the filibuster? It’s difficult having dummy citizens like Gay Parrot
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pay $150 a week for health insurance and I haven't been to a doctor in years. I don't feel like health costs went down with Biden
Well Republicans said you didn’t deserve a break. $600/mo for a family plan? Who is your employer? Do you take insulin? Do you have any extended family members who take insulin?
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Last year, Democrats extended Obamacare’s beefed-up tax credits — which have reduced premiums for 13 million Americans — through 2025. Now, Biden will urge Congress to make the enhanced financial aid permanent, an ask he also had last year, as the uninsured rate sits at a record low.
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Price caps like Venezuela. I wonder how that will play out.
Yes yes, it’s all a commie socialist plot. The real socialism was all that Federal money that went to Columbus, Ohio to get their economy going.
What a waste that socialism was.
Due to great need, the City of Columbus committed an additional $410,000 to the Right to Recover program serving people who lose income due to COVID-19 and who commit to isolate in their homes for 14 days to lessen the spread of the virus.
Governor DeWine Announces CARES Act Funding to Support Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Ohioans Impacted by COVID-19
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Democrats had sought to impose a $35 monthly price cap on the cost of insulin for patients on Medicare and those with private plans. But Republican lawmakers blocked the part of the policy that would have extended the cap to private insurance coverage.
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So sad
At least Democrats got it for seniors on Medicare
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The first thing to go is all that money they borrowed from the Social Security trust fund to pay for infinite deficits.
When the Federal government borrowed from the SS Trust fund they gave T-bills in exchange and paid interest to the trust fund.
It was similar to a person borrowing from their 401K and paying it back over 5 years with interest.
The trust fund is shrinking now because more money is going out than coming in for about the last 4 years. ( that’s why they started the trust fund in the early 80s) So the federal government can no longer get new loans from the trust fund. The trust fund has nothing to lend to anyone.
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I have a feeling Roose wants to turn all red states into vassal states. That's probably not going to go down like he thinks with such a well armed freedom loving populace.
Oh I see
Welfare for middle class white people is good. (Funded by blue states)
Welfare for poor minorities is bad. (also funded mainly by blue states)
The red states will get back every dollar they paid to the US Treasury, but not a penny more. A vassal state gets back nothing.
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@thett3
Right, you aren’t just going after poor people. Veterans shouldn’t get their pensions and seniors shouldn’t get their social security or Medicare based on the state they live in, even though those are federal programs, because of reasons
Now you’re getting it!
If welfare is bad for poor people then welfare is bad for poor states. All the people in poor states, not just the poor people.
But social security and Medicare have their own tax. Those programs can be made sound by increasing the tax if that’s what the American people want. What would you rather do, pay for your mother’s hip replacement yourself or pay another half percent tax for Medicare?
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@thett3
in 2022, only 16% of spending was on “everything else”, 49% of federal spending was on entitlements, which poor people disproportionately rely on
Entitlements like Social Security and Medicare are funded by SS tax and Medicare tax.
We are talking about INCOME TAXES paid to the Federal government.
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@thett3
And you want to make poor peoples lives harder because you don’t like the way middle class and wealthy people (who often dislike welfare policies) in their states vote.
Again, this goes way beyond welfare money. This is ALL federal dollars going to a state. Basically, we are going to limit “welfare” to farmers and veterans and corporations who are getting money that they didn’t pay into the U.S. Treasury. A state shouldn’t get more money back than they send.
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@thett3
Welfare users are disproportionately black and hispanic people, especially in the south. Someone with a blue collar job who can afford a pickup truck usually doesn’t qualify for welfare
Welfare? That’s pennies. This isn’t about welfare, this about all the federal dollars that go to a state for everything from federal pensions to grant money to farm subsidies to disaster relief. Billions and billions of federal dollars. Welfare, like food stamps or section 8 vouchers is a drop in the bucket.
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@thett3
I don’t understand why you want to hurt your own voters for the crime of living in the wrong state
Well their must not be very many of them because those states have Republicans in elected office.
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@thett3
The people in those states who would get fucked are for the most part dem voters
That’s not true. It’s the good ole boys who work with their hands and drive pickup trucks.
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Why civil war? Red states are just getting what they want - self reliance. It’s good for building their individual character.
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@thett3
FDR and LBJ would vehemently disagree with you.
I don’t think so. There’s no evidence they were advocating for rich states to support poor states. But even if they did, things have changed, it’s been decades and it’s perfectly fine to change the system. I would love poor states and rural states to learn how bad off they would be without the blue states.
Let people like Barry Goldwater see how fucked his state would be without socialism.
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@thett3
the states are NEVER going to agree to letting the federal government set the tax rates and other policies. What you’re advocating is undoing everything that FDR and LBJ did lol. Which more power to you…but you should probably change your screen name and avatar in that case
It would be difficult to do this for Social Security and Medicare - there’s no doubt that red states get back way more for those two programs than they send.
FDR and LBJ didn’t set out to move money from rich states to poor states. It wanted to move money from rich people to poor people. If some states don’t have many rich people then it’s tough shit. Especially when leaders in red states say they oppose socialism. He can’t oppose socialism and then take money from the blue states.
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@thett3
Top ten states by population:
Your population numbers look correct. So my plan should work just fine. Except population doesn’t always equate to earnings and tax receipts.
Ohio has a lot of people but the state has a dying economy in post industrial America. Columbus is doing a lot better than Cleveland and Cincinnati.
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@thett3
You also create a strong incentive for states to fight over the most productive citizens and offload the most expensive ones to other states. Is that really a position you want to put people in, as a leftist? Texas or New York or wherever doing whatever they can to force their poor people to move?
Well I don’t know how a state can “offload” expensive citizens. I’m a progressive liberal who thinks rich liberals shouldn’t have to give money to poor conservatives in another state.
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@thett3
Under your system a rich person in Mississippi would have to pay a lot in federal taxes but poor people in Mississippi wouldn’t get that revenue. I don’t see why the states would agree to this unless they're given leeway on their own tax and fiscal policies and the federal government stays out completely.
No, I’m saying that the money a rich person in Mississippi pays would go back to Mississippi to help his fellow Mississippians. And the states would get to decide how to spend all the money they get back from the Feds that was paid to the US Treasury in federal income taxes.
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@thett3
Be smart, make jokes about wealthy people and groups that are on top like lawyers and politicians, not marginalized people who struggle to have the same rights and privileges and quality of life as the majority.
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@thett3
Just donated to President Biden for 2024. Four more years!
See, this shows that you are a bigot and a racist. A racist, bigoted Christian.
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@thett3
there are lots of rich places in red states lol…in many cases they’re the areas keeping it red
Look, we all know where the money is. The states with the biggest economies and tax receipts are no secret. The Northeast and California is where by far most of the money comes from. It’s also where most of the people live.
40 million in California
40 million combined in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut.
That’s 80 million people in just 5 blue states. 25% of the American population lives in 5 states.
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@thett3
Do you resent welfare policies that help people in other states?
I don’t think blue states should have to fund red states. No state should get more from the federal government than it sends.
For instance, I don’t think farmers in Iowa should get more money from the Federal government than the state of Iowa sends in tax money. Whatever Federal income tax comes in to the US Treasury from Iowa’s businesses and individuals in 2022, that should be the maximum pot of money they get from the Feds in 2023 to divide up however the state wants to.
So Iowans support Iowans, not New Yorkers support Iowans. But this policy would just kill the red welfare states.
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So that quote says Ohio is dying. Did you leave off the part of the quote where I say Columbus is dying?
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Why do rural areas and farming communities need so much financial help like farm subsidies from the federal government and state tax money to set up 911 emergency service. Are they just too poor and stupid to make it on their own?
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Changing the subject. You said Columbus is falling apart.
I did? Where did I say that? Quote it
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So Columbus is successful because of the mayor is a Democrat, correct? Plus Biden’s policies.
The Republican Governor ruined the rest of Ohio, right?
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You said Columbus was also.
Nope. Is the mayor of Columbus Democrat or Republican?
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Regardless of why, you stated it was dying. You were wrong. Just apologize and try to be less stupid. Maybe take nootropics or something
Um no. Are Cleveland and Cincinnati dying? The article above says they are. Did you thank Joe Biden yet? Send him a letter.
I bet the mayor of Columbus is a Democrat. That also explains why the city is doing well.
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Columbus is growing thanks to government
“Columbus is the state’s only “non-legacy” city, meaning it developed later, based around professional and government services, along with the education and medical fields”.
Lucky for you, the educated people in Columbus have created an environment where even a guy like you can make a living.
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That is not true and I doubt you have been to Columbus if you think that. Everyone is hiring, they offer good salaries and lots of people with plenty of cash walking around. Warehouse jobs in Amazon, Sears, Victoria secret
I guess you should get down on your knees and thank Joe Biden then right? Because in 2020 the unemployment in Columbus during the Trump Presidency was over 16%
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We don't have tent cities here
Columbus has quite a bit of homelessness even if they don’t have tent cities. Good thing the federal government takes money from the blue states and gives it to the red states so they can build homeless shelters. Otherwise these people would be living in tent cities.
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I’ve been to Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Ive had their famous Skyline chili 5 Way. Ohio is dying. Their downtowns are dying. You can just sense the fear in the middle class whites in that state, they have status anxiety. They are falling out of the middle class and their children will have to leave the state to find a future.
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How much do you think the GM of a family diner in a city like Columbus makes?
Lol, a lot less than me.
How’s the homeless issue in Columbus? Columbus Ohio?
Again, Is America a meritocracy or not? Do people with intelligence and valuable skills tend to get paid more (at least for white guys) than people with low skills and low intelligence?
You play pool? that’s a good pastime for the average Joe, well…below average Joe.
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Utah almost always has a Republican Governor and State Legislature majority.
So if we can’t blame them for homelessness in Utah then we can’t blame California’s Governor Newsom for homelessness anywhere in California, right?
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This is basically a confession that he has a low IQ.
Hey, you're the guy cleaning pools for a living. You also had other “high IQ” jobs like cutting grass and working in a restaurant.
Is America a meritocracy or not? Do people with intelligence and valuable skills tend to get paid more (at least for white guys) than people with low skills and low intelligence?
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No it's uniquely a retarded liberal thing
That’s bullshit. I’ve seen skid rows in Salt Lake City, Memphis, Nashville, Cincinnati, and plenty of other red states and cities.
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@cristo71
I saw it when you first posted it. The extreme disconnect between the voice and the verbiage was good for a laugh. In any case, it’s good to see what even affordable technology is capable of these days
Don’t kid yourself. Wylted thought it was authentic, because he’s a dummy. The really sad part was his comment saying those bigoted words made him want to vote for Biden.
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with a grain of salt.
You’re about as valuable as a grain of salt.
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