Post AuOFpXEuQ2mZ8j7LUG by patmikemid@sfba.social
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 (DIR) Post #AuOEVI3b3czsJ3boR6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-05-23T15:35:57Z
       
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       #Trump already has the weight of the #ExecutiveBranch behind his efforts to strip funding from top #universities, #deport millions of unauthorized #immigrants & pressure #ForeignGovernments to change their economic policies.With the sprawling bill that passed through the #House on Thurs, #Republicans are also preparing to enlist the #TaxCode as another tool against Trump’s political foes.#law #RevengePolitics https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/republicans-taxes-trump-opponents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D8897650-C8DC-4320-B385-DFA3B3D729D8
       
 (DIR) Post #AuOEhZ15pOAQNfI3ge by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-05-23T15:38:12Z
       
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       The #legislation, which could change in the #Senate, would raise #taxes on #universities like #Harvard, as well as on #immigrants & on companies based in countries w/taxes the #Trump admin deems unfair. Owners of major #sports franchises, a group Trump repeatedly tried & failed to join, would also see a tax increase.“If you’re an #ideological friend of Trump,you’re in generally good shape. If you’re an ideological foe, you pay more,”said William Gale, a co-dir of the Tax Policy Center.#law
       
 (DIR) Post #AuOEvfwkrJbfvazRuC by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-05-23T15:40:45Z
       
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       The increases, William Gale added, “feel very punitive.”Those increases would go toward covering some of the cost of what is otherwise a broad #tax cut. But in some cases, the amount of additional revenue the #government would derive is relatively minor, while the effect on those targeted with a tax increase could be significant.#law #Trump #RevengePolitics #tyranny #dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy
       
 (DIR) Post #AuOFQ9a5FATcWav1xw by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-05-23T15:46:15Z
       
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       [Saying the quiet part out loud] … Representative #JasonSmith, a #Missouri #Republican who leads the Ways and Means Committee, framed the #tax increase not as a matter of fiscal prudence but as a way to “end insane woke ideology.”#law #Trump #RevengePolitics #tyranny #dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy
       
 (DIR) Post #AuOFpXEuQ2mZ8j7LUG by patmikemid@sfba.social
       2025-05-23T15:50:49Z
       
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       @Nonilex In no way does that make any sense at all but I realize I am looking for some logical connection between the two things.  I can’t even conceive a twisted meaning.  We need to tax poor people more?  Is that it?