Republicans hate the IRS because it forces them to pay taxes sometimes, and taxes are bad because they pay for things like schools, roads, and libraries which are all tools democrats use to turn the frogs gay and make people trans.
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There's a constitutional amendment up for a public vote in Texas that cuts property taxes, which go to fund things like schools. The Republican majority will "find a way to make up the difference" for schools.
Yeah. Sure you will. Because education is definitely one of your priorities.
This lesson brought to you by Taco bell. Jaxxson has 4 enchiritos which are $4.20 each, 3 crunchwrap Supremes (3.50) and a large Baja blast (1.89) assuming that sales tax is 6% what is the least amount of paper bills needed to cover hospital expenses.
It's not surprising if one considers the goal of the Republican party in education is school choice ala charter schools. Stripping the public education system of it's ability to effectively do it's job has been their goal for a long time. Indoctrination is a tool that the right in the United States takes full advantage of.
And only 3 percent of us have bothered to vote so far. It's pathetic.
Aren't federal taxes also used to help any state, red or blue, with disaster relief?
Yeah, and they'll never pass a bill that helps a blue state
People from both parties live and work in every state, red or blue.
You're missing the point
The headline should be the IRS cutting bill. If it was about aid to Israel, they would've just put that in, not try to use aid to Israel as a means to stop the IRS from being able to collect the taxes their wealthy donors owe.
If anything, a spending bill should come with a tax, not a revenue cut.
It's so ridiculous they can bundle unrelated things into bills.
Like a "Feed children" bill
Where they give $2 to food pantries. But also $5 to dictators, tanks to police, and remove funding for cancer research.
That's how compromises are made. Or it was, back when compromises happened.
Senator Chuck Schumer, majority leader of the Democratic-controlled Senate, said he would not bring it up for a vote.
Good.
Biden promised to veto any israel aid bills that did not include ukraine aid.
Great. I'd rather not tempt him to break such a promise.
What we need is a Ukraine-only bill; an Israel-only one is exactly backwards.
So they know it's DOA. Fund bombing children by sacrificing the institution designed to catch tax evasion?
Really letting that freak flag fly!
Virtue signaling is usually less genocidal
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The measure passed 226 to 196, largely along party lines, a shift from typical strongly bipartisan congressional support for providing aid to Israel.
The bill's introduction, as lawmakers rushed to respond to the attack on Israel by Iran-backed Hamas militants, was the first major legislative action under new Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Biden has asked Congress to approve a broader $106 billion emergency spending package including funding for Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine, as well as humanitarian aid.
"This is the first step in the process and I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the bill so we can get funds to Israel as soon as possible," said Republican Representative Kay Granger, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, during debate on the legislation.
House Republican leaders combined the cost of the aid to Israel with cutting some funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that Democrats included in Biden's signature 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, prompting Democrats to accuse them of using Israel's crisis to score political points.
Republicans, who objected to the increased IRS funding from the beginning, said cutting the agency's budget was essential to offset the cost of the military aid to Israel, whose tanks and troops took on Hamas on the outskirts of Gaza City on Thursday.
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