House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he hoped to work with billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to eliminate more than 75% of federal agencies.

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    18 days ago

    He looks so happy, cheerful when he’s about to unleash hell on his fellow countrypeoples. I hope his just desserts come soon.

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    17 days ago

    I mean, best timeline outcome is that federal spending goes significantly down, thereby lowering tax burden, which enables the not-fucked states to pick up the slack and provide those services themselves.

    The fucked states get even more fucked, though.

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      17 days ago

      You think our taxes will go down? They’re more likely to go up because they’ll have privatized replacements and those don’t save money.

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        17 days ago

        Not to mention, last time around, the GOP weaponized tax code against blue states (putting a super low cap on state tax deductions). I expect more of the same this time - and I also don’t expect it’ll JUST be tax code stuff either.

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      17 days ago

      This is the problem with conservatism. In a vacuum, being fiscally responsible is good! But apparently, to them, having empathy towards people in worse situations is apparently impossible.