Remember everyone. View tariffs as kind of a federal sales tax. Sales tax typically affect lower classes more than upper classes. It will also compete with other sales taxes at other government levels. Those smaller governments rely on it more than the federal government.

Meaning, to grossly oversimplify, this will ultimately cost more for people with less wealth, and it will degrade your local governments ability to provide services due to less income.

To answer OP’s question. They already have plans to pass more tax cuts for the rich (federally). That money has to come from elsewhere. This is one form of the elsewhere.

I put Yugo on it.

I don’t murder all the time when no one’s around to notice. You’re welcome to everyone.

Americans: “I don’t care how bad the service is, you HAVE to tip a minimum amount.”

Also Americans: “My experience at the DMV was bad. Fire all government employees!”

Your story is all too common, and I saw a lot of this growing up. I was there as a child overhearing the comments about people. Seeing and hearing my parents and church and school leaders talking shit behind backs, amd being judgy as hell towards anyone and everyone.

Yes, God forbid you seem like a burden or “different” in any way. Their “acceptance” of you will come with a lot of caveats.

I’m glad for your sake and your life you are aware and see it for what it is. You’re better off.

The people. Family, their friends, the church people, the religious school people. Everyone. Toxic. And it took me far too long to figure out how wrong it all was and how so much judgement and hate and shame and guilt and manipulation was not normal.

None of my community raised an effective adult. But they sure tried to raise an indoctrinated subservient guilt-riddled sack of shit.

Fuck religion and fuck people who pressure it on others, especially children, and so many of them use it all as an excuse to cover the fact they are ultimately just shitty people.

Thanks to them I feel like 2 decades of my life were stolen from me and I had to relearn and grow up a lot in my 20s to get out of it.

Sure is interesting in religion how there’s a neverending amount of pointing at YOUR need to change, but none of those pointing ever seem to change or improve as humans.

I was strictly speaking of the number of civilian federal employees. Yes that number was 3 million as of December 2024. It was roughly 2.8 million in 1970.

This also includes a RIF of around 450k people in the 1990s, and I’m not sure about what in the 1980s as I recall reading Reagan was very anti-fed. As a proportion of the population, the amount of people working for the country as civil servants has shrunk.

I was strictly speaking of the number of civilian federal employees. Yes that number was 3 million as of December 2024. It was roughly 2.8 million in 1970. It has always been around that amount, despite the population and complexity of the country growing in the 55 years since.

It is a lie that the government is larger at least in terms of employees, and any citizen saying they feel the government has “gotten too big” is generally a fucking moron. Especially when those types typically support the abusively bloated and heavily unchecked defense spending.

Perhaps it would help if you were to… say… document cases of this. Perhaps a list and links to as many of these communities as you can point to. You know, to research and begin assessing… the scale of the problem… and maybe how to resolve it.

The federal government is literally the same size it was in the early 1970s.

Idiots voting red: “the gubments gotten too big!”

FYI, some of those cabinet members have expressly ordered their agencies to disregard some of m*sks crap. They aren’t even all on the same page.

I have gotten really fucking tired of:

Blah blah blah. HERES WHY…

These people don’t get it. Change the story. “Concerned” citizen sees a black person and calls the cops. Cops come up and demand ID to ensure everything is okay.

It’s the same kind of situation. Clearly not acceptable and has long history of racism and bigotry.

It’s not okay with someone who happens to be short either.

Is the OP expected to hand over ID to validate after every damn concerned citizen?

This is also not getting into how the police often waste time on improper calls and don’t spend time on more important things. They selectively choose what to spend time on, and that’s often a problem.

Can 2 girls share 1 creamer?

I would do it soon before they gut IRS and have a government shutdown.

Nanomachines, son!

If there’s a day 1 patch for big game releases, it’s the same as early access. Going gold means bullshit nowadays.

The accelerated decline of my shithole country.

They literally already told us to fuck off.