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Texas is slashing $607 million in Medicaid funding from program for students with disabilities
(www.texastribune.org)
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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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Gregg Abbott you mean
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"Unless you're poor and disabled, then fuck you, pardner! YEEHAW!" 
Serious question - how in any logical fashion does this make any sense?
I'm American but I'm not understanding this. Medicaid is federal money so in other words it's basically free money for the state. I know the republicans love nonsense like owning the libs and "reducing the dependency on the government" but is there some kind of cogent argument here even in theory?
The cruelty is the point.
It strengthens support amongst their voter base and is an advertising strategy for people who hate social welfare to move to Texas
Had to pay for Ted Cruz’s vacations somehow
They just want to put the disabled into camps along with the jews, minorities, lgbtq+ etc.
They're literally making lists of trans people
:yea:
Texas seems to be in a heated race with Florida to be the most planned and deliberate horrible possible place to live in the United States.