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Informal_Self_5671 t1_irt93g7 wrote

Another reason republicans will try to torpedo it.

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BlurryBigfoot74 t1_irtbfl2 wrote

They love beating up on the poor. Welfare takes billions of tax dollars out of rich people's pockets.

I remember a while back there was a push on social media to have all people on welfare drug tested. A few politicians even picked up on it.

Then someone did the math. It would have cost a lot of money in tests to catch a small sliver of people. You don't hear it being pushed as hard anymore. Expect for the ones who just can't do math.

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Mattstream t1_irvz9gh wrote

Billionaires do not get taxed like the middle and lower class does. Take 32% from a billionaire he still makes millions a month.

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RickJWagner t1_irucvwy wrote

Democrats currently control both houses of Congress and the White House.
An ideal time to really fix Social Security? Will they do it?

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Extreme_Ad6519 t1_irvfus7 wrote

That a party controlling both chambers of Congress and the Chief Executive Office (presidency) means they can pass whatever bills they like is a misconception, especially on the federal level, mainly due to two reasons.

  1. internal disagreements within the majority party (the smaller your majorities in Congress are, the more problematic this becomes)

  2. Senate filibuster (a procedural hurdle which requires 60 instead of 51 votes to end debate on any legislative business)

And currently, Democrats have a razor-thin majority in the House and Senate while Republicans can block any bills from even being considered in the Senate by filibustering.

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RealAgent t1_irug208 wrote

No neither side ever fix anything. But they both get terribly rich.

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DeusExLibrus t1_is25d06 wrote

Democrats have tried to fix plenty of things, but they routinely get blocked by Republicans. Both parties are garbage, don’t truly represent the people, and should have been replaced long ago, but only one of them actively blocks the government from doing anything, and it’s not the Democrats.

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