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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the people who think the middle class will benefit because of a tax break or two don't get how much less their money will be worth.

Your medical insurance will cost substantially more.

Your home insurance will cost more.

Your food will cost substantially more (bye bye, farm workers )!

Your hotel stays will cost more (bye bye, room cleaners).

Either your local taxes will go up substantially, town or city will have more unemployed, more kids unsupervised after school, and more families going hungry.

Your clothes, your appliances, your cars, pretty much everything you buy will cost more thanks to tariffs.

Your energy costs will be higher and your air quality will be worse.

Loans for higher education will be less available.

Your national parks will be fewer and less well maintained.

And on and on and on.

But what extra money you keep, the multimillionaires and billionaires will be getting multiple times more--not only in absolute terms, but in percentage terms too.

Their gains will far outpace the increases in the basic living costs.  They will have more to spend on jets, art, luxury travel, private schools, security for their compound in their gated enclave or on their gated island, and buying up more small businesses that can no longer compete due to the higher costs of imported inputs and labor.

Your supposed gains are so outdone by the wealthy that you move lower on the ladder.

Enjoy the crumbs.[/quote]

Please back up your crazed rant with some kind of analysis. [/quote]

Er, just read the Big Ugly Bill.

Please explain where the above is wrong.

Your denial of the facts does't change them.  I don't need to persuade you, time will.  [/quote]

Okay so your argument is "trust me bro"? And I'm, naturally, a fascistic moron if I dont just trust you?

Isn't this thread about how dumb we are, and now you're saying that you won't provide any analysis or support for your hollow and hyperbolic claims, but yet WE are the easily manipulated idiots?  Ok.[/quote]

I'm not saying you need to trust me.  I'm saying these things are direct, first order effects of the legislation (and some of the EOs).  It doesn't require analysis; it requires obtuseness not to see these impacts.[/quote]

The bill will save me six figures on my tax bill each year. Even if some of your raw, unsupported assertions are true, it is entirely unlikely that these costs would amount to six figures. Okay? So if you're to claim I'm a duped moron incapable of understanding economics, you need to break down the math. [/quote]

If you had six figures to save, then you are very rich.  And you’ve proved the point that this bill is about helping rich people like you.[/quote]

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