No one likes doing chores, but they don’t magically go away by ignoring them. If you don’t mow your lawn, the grass doesn’t stop growing. It becomes jungle-like; a much bigger headache if you don’t take care of it when you were supposed to. And, worst of all, even when you do your chores, you’ll have to do them again soon, over and over again. Death, taxes and chores. Wouldn’t it be nice to instead live in a world where if you just did them once, you’d be set forever? Republicans in Congress are pretending they live in that world. But instead of skipping household chores, they want to skip the part of governing where they have to pay for their plans.
Republicans are pushing tax cuts that would balloon America’s debt by $4.6 trillion over the next decade in order to funnel money back to the wealthy. When you combine their proposed tax cuts with their cuts to social programs and the poorest 20% of Americans would lose $1,125 per year while the top 0.1% would gain $180,910. They, of course, know this proposal that President Trump has branded “one big, beautiful bill” is unpopular for many reasons, so they’re trying to fudge the numbers.
