These charts provided by MSNBC contributor and former Obama/Biden official Steven Rattner says it all about the reverse Robin Hood budget that passed while most of the country was sleeping early this morning.
Far from being a big beautiful bill, this legislation, like all supply side monstrosities that cut taxes for the well off while screwing everyone else since the time of Reagan will do nothing more that blow up the deficit and national debt, shrink the middle class, and make the working class struggle more to make ends meet with reduced access to health care and food security programs through Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP.
It also fulfills MAGA’s goals to make pollution and ignorance great again by attempting to undo all the clean energy initiatives passed during the Biden/Harris Administration and makes student loans more onerous.
It is a bill that strives to give a death blow to the historic programs of the New Deal, Great Society, War on Poverty, the Environmental Protection Agency, CHIPS health insurance, the Affordable Care Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act while inauguarating a new Gilded Age where plutocrats dictate the terms of a increasingly segregated society and all their needs are met including sending their children to the private indoctrination school of their choice on the public dime.
Before the vote on the bill that would take the country in the wrong direction and make lives for people not already well off miserable, Arizona Congressional House District Three Representative Yassamin Ansari released this group video showcasing what was at stake if this wrongheaded legislation passed.
Arizona House Representative Greg Stanton also released the below statement on social media:
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