Cutting money to the only government agency that can actually turn a decent profit, in order to save money. How very republican.
USPS
turnsmight turn a profit now that the ridiculous rules that republicans put in to try to bankrupt it have been revoked.Wait, really?
https://apwu.org/postal-service-reform-act-2022
There is proof that we fixed it.
Here is an analysis done in 2019 that says that stupid requirement was the only reason the USPS hadn’t been profitable since 2006 when the republicans originally passed the crap.
https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/
I’m unable to find profits, but they generated $77 billion in revenue for 2023
Know that I wasn’t doubting you, I just didn’t want to get my hopes up for nothing.
Here’s the next radical idea I’ve heard; have the post office offer simple banking services.
Wow, I had no idea that they actually fixed the problem that they created.
Sad that they’re still going to privatize it along with every other federal agency…
To avoid the debt getting too large, let’s stop funding the agency that brings in the most income.
It’s because the rich are being taxed. They have to do something about it
It’s because the rich are being
taxedaudited. They have to do something about itRight Ty for the correction
So, Republicans are no-so-quietly saying that everyone should cheat on their taxes, or is this just for the rich?
It’s funny because the IRS was instrumental in a 300 pervert roundup by tracking Bitcoin transactions, some of them government workers. I wonder why they’d want to cut that.
lol if you think Republicans want to protect government workers
They just want to protect perverts
Also their financial advisors and investors have found a much easier way to hide money through crypto, so they can’t have the IRS being “inefficient” by going after unpaid taxes of the wealthy
The party super concerned about the debt is also the one who wants to defund their only source of income. Brilliant.
They feign concern about the national debt. For my entire lifetime they’ve done nothing but run up the debt.
They feign concern about the national debt.
Exactly. Government debt promotes wealth concentration: instead of paying tax, the rich lend their money, earning interest on it. They do not advocate for less government spending to “balance the books”, but to (a) make people more reliant on their employers and thus supress wages (“labour cost”) and (b) weaken the state agencies that check their power. I’m convinced every Republican threat of a government shutdown is a bluff.
As if by design…
But don’t worry. They’ll still have enough resources to go after ordinary people.
Realize the new tactic, trump admin will have the group of secondary goons fighting in public over multiple concepts, they’ll wait to see where public sentiment falls (or more likely how the money feels), and then trump will jump on the bandwagon and “punish” the face of the “losing” side as if he was for the “winning” side all along.
In the meantime, heritage foundation directed gop will use every second of the distraction to quietly pass bad law.
Examples:
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they just quietly defunded the department that tracks and reports on foreign propaganda efforts after musk just attacked it publicly link
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And they just gutted $20b from the IRS that could be used to audit millionaires and billionaires - the IRS famously brings in more money for every dollar funded into the service link
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Couldn’t have been accomplished without democrats
Not Republicans. Congress did. The bill only passed because of a bipartisan vote.
