Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
by throwaway173738 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:12AM
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I hope you’re right, but I suspect you’ll be wrong. I think Obama was the last president to shrink the national debt. Clinton did before that.
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
by _dark_matter_ on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:44AM
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False dichotomy. They will likely be used to continue tax cuts for the wealthiest (and corporations? I don't remember), which are set to expire. That is neither scenario that you envisioned.
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
by nickpeterson on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:30AM
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Whom does income tax cuts help? Median US salary is 62k. That person pays ~12k in income taxes. Conservatives are going to ‘save’ that person 1k on their taxes or some other paltry sum and then cancel a bunch of services, fire a few hundred thousand workers, and raise tariffs to make the actual cost go up on everything that person buys.
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
by senordevnyc on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:29AM
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Prediction: when Trump leaves office, the federal workforce, budget, and debt will all be higher than they were at the start of his second term.
In reality, whether taxes fall or not likely depends on whether the savings are returned in the form of income tax cuts, or whether the savings are used to repay the massive debt that has accumulated from decades of deficits. Both outcomes are good in the long run.