A Solution for Republican Debt
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a total loser for the middle class and those less lucky. While Republicans like John James regurgitate the Republican mantra of eliminating fraud and abuse, suggesting that most Medicaid and SNAP beneficiaries are able-bodied americans scamming the system, let us not forget it was the Republicans that repealed the individual mandate in the Affordable Care act (ACA) in 2017 with Trump’s first tax cut for the rich.
The individual mandate in the ACA required everyone to have health insurance,lowering total costs through the larger insurance pool of healthy people. Those with lower incomes, like the working poor, were able to use the insurance exchange markets to purchase subsidized healthcare from private insurers. Those at the very low end would still receive Medicaid. This alone would have kept millions off of Medicaid and lowered the burden to the deficit. Currently, 24 million have enrolled in the ACA without the mandate, so obviously, it works.
If Republicans truly cared about the deficit (only when there is a Democrat in the White House), they would reach across the aisle with a bipartisan plan of cuts and tax increases.We hear their constant beat of “increasing the debt to our grandchildren” while increasing the debt in Trump’s first term by $8 trillion. Their current plan adds another $3 trillion to the debt and raises the debt ceiling for more spending. This is not the fiscal duty that Americans want.
All the talk of cutting this or cutting that, with no mention of the tax cuts in the 2017 bill that raised middle-class taxes to pay for it, and now they want those cuts permanent. I would suggest a simple solution: for every dollar that Medicaid and SNAP get cut, those tax cuts are raised by the same amount. $800 billion in Medicaid cuts would mean $800 billion in tax increases for those earning over $400,000. This way, everyone pays down the debt, not just the poor.
Dennis Marentette
St. Clair Shores
‘Be Calm, Enjoy the Ride’
The media is doing its best to divide Trump supporters over the Epstein inquiry, which is going nowhere for now.The media did not report that the FBI raided the Epstein home and left only to inform Epstein that they would be back in an hour to search, so he should get ready. That gave Epstein plenty of time to get rid of damaging evidence.
Trump supporters are not angry at Trump; they’re angry at the media’s cover-up of all the corruption in our government at the highest levels, where individuals have gotten away with crimes that any one of us would be locked up for if we did them. President Trump has three and a half years left to find all the corruption and expose it in our government. Just be calm and enjoy the ride.
John Shibbish
C
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