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Tax cuts, more money and resources to deport illegal immigrants, Medicaid reform, etc., etc., and etc. Those are all objectively good things which the majority of the voters in 31 states voted for and want to happen.
but then again if the requirements are stricter could it not be that less money is spent anyway? Not to mention that in some states medicaid may as well not exsist anyway sense more places do not take it.
How is expecting able bodied people to do at least 20 hours of work, volunteer or paid, going to harm rural hospitals and Medicaid?
[raises a glass] Congratulations. I hope you get what you voted for.Congress sending Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' to his desk after dramatic all-night House vote
House Republicans delivered a stunning victory for President Donald Trump's agenda in the wee hours of Thursday morning.www.foxnews.com
This is great news for the USA.
With more requirements comes more bureaucracy to make sure people are obeying the rules. I would not be surprised the added complexity eats up the "savings".
Combine all that with the trillions pledged (up to $14 tril) in private investment to re-shore America's manufacturing, revenues resulting from the deregulation of the energy/resource sectors ending the climate/environmental scam (which was a leftist impoverishment of the west agenda), trillions in revenue brought in through tariffs, increased overall tax revenues, even with the lower tax rates, because of a booming economy and expanding workforce with higher wages, and last but not least, the trillions saved through peaceful trade instead of very expense, destructive, drawn-out wars. This is the kind of revenues that easily take care of national debt, deficits and social programs.
One man's Medicaid reform is another man's young child dying from lack of treatment. A member of the working poor, father of 7, whose life story would break the hearts of those who have hearts to break, just wrote on Facebook that Congress voted to give him and millions of other Americans an expiration date. He has become an itinerant worker, going north in the summer and south in the winter, living in a beat up old Winnebago. Sometimes when the family is at the end of their rope I send them a little money to help them out. I guess that's where the tax breaks of those who are kind-hearted will go.
There was a link in the post you quoted. For your convenience, here it is again: How Might Federal Medicaid Cuts in the Senate-Passed Reconciliation Bill Affect Rural Areas? | KFF
Yes, I'm pretty sure this is the reason for stricter requirements for health care insurance. The American "system" of tying healthcare to employment doesn't work very well for people - life expectancy has gone down.
This is not a good argument for the bill.
I don't believe in the estimates or the predictions from the KFF.
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