If huge cuts for everybody in order to preserve tax breaks for the wealthy seems like a bad deal to you, let your Senators know

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    14 hours ago

    I feel like some of this is fundamentally wrong. Like it says such and such saves money, but cutting that program costs untold amounts as a consequence.

    Like you can save money by not paying your phone bill, but then you don’t have a working phone.

    So the nyt probably sucks by not making that clear to readers.

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      These are strictly the numbers as they are on paper. The CBO and other groups USED to be in charge of doing the long-term math to find the real costs of bills, but of course they’ve been kneecapped to do that good work.

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    11 hours ago

    GOP-lead federal US government just obliterated 7 billion dollars of taxpayers’ funds on an ineffectual theatrical Big Bombing Boondoggle against Iran’s nonexistent nuclear bomb building program—savings beyond belief!!!