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GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid
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I don't know what to think about that. I don't think that low income Republican voters will feel the face eating of the leopards they voted for as what it is.
And I'm not even American, but I can see that this exact same thing is going to happen here in Europe/Germany as well. People will vote for the extreme right parties that have all their propaganda on how they are going to give money to the small people and make the country more secure - and at the same time their political programs and past behavior screams "we will give tax cuts mainly to the ultra rich and never cared about the low income people".
And they still get voted for. We just love us some good old fashioned fascism. Maybe I need to change my mindset and just be like "let's gooooo"
Left parties are also to blame for this. I always vote for the left party but lately I am not OK with about 70% of their agenda.
A rising number of people are concerned about immigration but left parties just ignore that and pushes for more immigration.
Immigration causes lot of issues. You see many immigrants pick pocketers in touristic areas, you hear a lot of crime cases involving immigrants, many prostitutes are immigrants and are exploited. It is maybe few but why adding more crimes when we already have enough of it.
Many immigrants rely on welfare and are eligible as some immigrants do not allow their wives to work and having multiple children is a norm. Left parties always vote against any restrictions.
They push salaries down and causes unemployment. Many do not want to work on underpaid jobs like in restaurants. But immigrants are OK to take those jobs and push salaries down.
So people see that left parties are doing nothing for this, left parties do not want upset their base which contain a lot of people from immigration. So people go to right and far right parties.
Is this satire or is your brain really like this.
I mean people feel this. Not think it. We need to listen to these concerns and talk about 93-98% tax rates for the wealthiest, individuals and corps.
There are no left parties in America.
I am answering Op who is in Germany and situation is the same as in my country.
People, ALL people, including you, should be free to live and work where they please.
You may be living in dream land to think that.
Why is that a delusional thing to want?
I meant it is delusional that it is possible but you can always hope.
It's the world I want to build for my kids to inherit. We all make choices, so try to make good ones.
If you let people live anywhere they want and ignore the issues they create your children will inherit worse world than we have today.
For example women fought for decades for equal rights in Europe. Now let people from countries who do not believe in equal rights come to Europe and you will see how women situation will become. I know many immigrants who do not allow their wives to work and think women should do home work and take care of children. Worse those people even when they come as immigrants become permanent residents and get citizenship very easily after few years living in my country and will start voting. In my country they no longer do long interviews for citizenship as before. You get asked two or three questions that everybody memorize and that is all.
So try to make good choices too.
On the other hand, what I've observed in the US is that the individual states have the power to create their own issues, and largely what happens is that people will self-select to states whose policies they agree with. Republicans in California yearn to move to Idaho, a much more Republican state, where the locals can smugly judge them for being from California. Indeed, many Latinos fit in well with many of the cultural aspects of the US (except that they're brown lmao), want many of the same things as native citizens, and even skew conservative (many illegal-turned-legal immigrants love watching Fox News bitch about illegal immigration). I, personally, believe in strong social policy and have a strong desire to immigrate to Western Europe. I would gladly swap places with one of your reactionaries who would, doubtless, be happier than pigs in shit in the US. We've got the fuck around policies of anti-immigrant rhetoric and the find out policies of the police state and scrapping of all social programs so the billionaires can save a few bucks. It's everything a reactionary could wish for, and it's West Europe's future unless you let those people go be where they can truly be happy-- the US.