But then each of those people get walloped with a big ass 1040 payment from the feds at the end of the year. And they feds can chose to make an “example” of random people who don’t pay up.

Why would I want to give Reddit money?

Sub-lemmy

Technically the term is “community” here.

Subreddits are to Reddit as Communities are to Lemmy.

Trinatron baby

Some old games are still pretty rough with their original frame rate. I recently played 4 player golden eye on an n64, and that frame rate was pretty tough to deal with. I had to retrain my brain to process that.

Remember, the state doesn’t pay taxes, individual citizens do by filling out their annual federal income taxes.

So, if “California” were to stop giving money to the federal government, the governor would basically need to convince individual citizens not to file their 1040.

And all of those people would have to clinch their assholes and hope Trump didn’t sick the IRS on them.

Pete Davidson is a weird looking dude with butthole eyes, but he’s not that weird looking.

The joke is that Trump and Elon had a messy breakup.

Pete Davidson has been the rebound guy for some big celebs.

I guess the big argument is that giving a bunch of money to the wealthy will stimulate the economy. Although, that’s an argument that many nations, including the US, have 50 years of data on, and there isn’t much to support that argument. Trickle down economics hasn’t been shown to work.

I also, if you’re in the camp that doesn’t believe in climate change and or thinks poor people are poor because of character flaws, then you probably like this thing. Or if you’re a wealthy person who donated a lot of money to republican politicians, you probably like this thing, because it’s a return on investment.

It’s not particularly great. Many people on the right only voted for it because they’re afraid Trump will primary them, and end their political careers, if they oppose.

The bill give massive tax cuts to the extremely rich, and it attempts to pay for part of that by:

• kicking many low income and disabled people off of federally funded health insurance
• closes poor rural hospitals that depend on Medicaid money
• cutting subsidies for manufacturing jobs that make emerging green tech, like EVs
• food and child care assistance will disappear for many poor families.
• and there is a bunch of weird little sneaky things hidden in it that people hope don’t get noticed because the bill is 200+ pages

When you do the math, the rich will get a lot of money, the very poor will have lose money, the and middle class will break even but many will be put on unemployment.

And it costs an extra $4,000,000,000,000, which is fucking bonkers.

Publicly, Elon said Trump’s bill was full of pork and would increase spending and debt by a lot.

Voters on the right were already waking up to how shitty Trump’s bill was, and Musk just used his megaphone to let even more of Trump’s base know that it sucked.

Privately, Musk is probably pissed that Trump’s bill didn’t help his companies. These are two greedy assholes. It all comes down to money and ego at the end of the day.

*Tesler