Our tax dollars hard at work

    by coachlife

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    1. But remember, it would be impossible to fund universal healthcare, improve infrastructure and provide education

    2. i wonder if this is the year where we do a massive nationwide protest and not file taxes this year

    3. I do not support my tax dollars being used to sponsor state terrorism. Think it’s time to stop paying them.

    4. Fickle-Molasses-903 on

      Unfortunately, many of us who paid attention knew this was going to happen well before November 5th, 2024. We warned people to focus on the policies these two candidates bring to the table. America voted this in because many chose to stay home, decided that they couldn’t vote for a women or a POC. Buckle up because there are three+ more years of this shit.

      *’America would prefer to be destroyed by a white pedophile rather than be saved by a black woman.’*

    5. Repulsive-Spend-49 on

      Plus countless other “non-fatal” effects on the populace from living in constant fear, worrying about friends and loved ones, not knowing whether to get out in the streets in protest or just go to work (“What would do if you lived in Germany in the 1930’s?”), and entire nation anxiously checking their smartphones each morning to see what fresh hell our dear, demented Leader is unleashing on us today!

    6. So please don’t shoot the messenger here, but this is why it’s “worth it” for the right wing.

      The surge isn’t for those 4k detainees.

      It’s to show the world “You’re not welcome here, stop coming”

      The right wing wants to stop immigration. They can’t do that through Congress. So they’re doing it through Trump.

      And it’s working. It’s estimated that 2026 will be the 1st year in history that America’s population declines.

      That’s due to millions fewer immigrants.

      If you’re goal is to stop immigration, what Trump and the Heritage Foundation Goons are doing works.

      We know it works because Trump did a much less extreme version in his 1st term and we ended that with 2.4m fewer immigrants.

      The estimate right now is that Trump’s 2nd term will double that.

      I don’t think anyone likes to talk about this. But that’s what they’re doing.

      It’s not about the individual detainees and deportations, it’s about creating a hostile environment so that immigrants stay away.

    7. Traditional_Buy_8420 on

      70k$ per detainment is a bit better if detaining innocent people is what you’re after. And that is what they are after, because the purpose is to intimidate innocent people, so that they stay away from the voting booths if they look like they’d vote left. You say, that some will just try to look like they vote right, but that’s also a win for the current administration, because if everyone looks like they vote right regardless of what they actually do vote, then that will 1: Sway a couple of naive people to vote right, because that’s how psychology works and more important 2: It will make an outcome swung by voting fraud much more believable.

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