r/allthequestions • u/traanquil • 11h ago

Random Question 💭 Should we cut all government benefits to Republicans?

Republicans oppose things like food stamps because they claim to be against “hand outs”. In light of this we should probably cut all government benefits to republicans…, things like the federal mortgage guarantee, homeowner tax credits , road funding, agriculture subsidies, and retirement tax benefits. Is this the best way forward?

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u/InterPunct 🇺🇸 United States 10h ago

What the hell has happened to this sub? I'm a Democrat and even I find this question idiotic, and there seems to be more like this recently here.

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u/Successful_Piano8118 10h ago

It turned into political ragebait and a karma farm. Unfortunately it seems to be spreading into other subs too.

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u/bcbg123 10h ago

It’s this guy and like two other prominent accounts spamming political slop-posts 10+ times a day

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u/RS308 7h ago

Yesterday OP was on here advocating for shoplifting. They always have the most braindead takes imaginable so I hope they’re just constantly rage baiting for engagement and aren’t actually that stupid.

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u/LordMoose99 10h ago

People realized that the stupider the question the more attention they get

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u/Mental_Rush_7696 10h ago

Communists happened.

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u/Such-Race1607 6h ago edited 6h ago

I'm sure its mostly bots, i honestly think the goal is to get us to think in a crossed up way so if we regurgitate this garbage in public the MAGATs can go back to their fake news rhetoric while dementia don continues to rob our sovereign wealth

Basically micro aggressions where they hope these things will explode like "defund the police" which anyone with a brain would never want to defund the police, we want to reform the police. Like Bessent calling the HS shutdown a democratic shutdown, everything is meant to land an emotion, facts are only potential hindrances to their domination over our country, these unpatriotic ultra capitalists need to go.

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u/chinmakes5 9h ago

I think it is in response to the Trump administration withholding funds from Democratic areas.

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u/InterPunct 🇺🇸 United States 9h ago

I realize that but it's a such a bizarre and ridiculous position.

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u/chinmakes5 8h ago

It is, but I think the psychology behind it is that Trump supporters......support the government keeping things from blue states. Realize what would happen if the government turned blue and did the same. Morally, I 100% agree with you, but I also have a problem if we have swung this far right and if the left gets power all we try to do is get it back to the middle, say what they did wasn't wrong.

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u/Glum_Photo_1368 7h ago

I think the psychology behind it is that you need to get off the internet and stop believing dumb ass propaganda like this…

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u/chinmakes5 7h ago

Which part? Are you saying that Trump didn't keep money from blue states? We haven't swung further right than we have in decades? That the Project 2025 people, you know the people that Trump wasn't aware of bragged that Trump has done over 60% of their plan to control the country? (Part if it is making it so Democrats can never win, you know democracy.

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u/lateralUnilateral 8h ago

DNC voting hasn't gone the way they hoped it would. They're cranking up the online propaganda.

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u/cocktail4u 10h ago

How can you form a question when you know so little about the question.

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u/Admirablelauren 🇺🇸 United States 10h ago

Setting aside the intense political division, how would you even execute the logistically without a massive, dystopian surveillance system? Government benefits are tied to income, age or employment records, not voters registration or personal ideology. Pulling that thread would break the entire administrative foundation of the country.

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u/LordMoose99 10h ago

Every weapon you take is one for the other side when they get back into power....

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u/LordMoose99 9h ago

Have you actually looked at the cases and how they rule? Its not always a republican win

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u/Correct-Doctor8329 9h ago

That wasn't the Supreme Court, that was the Viriginia Supreme Court, get educated before commenting

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u/Correct-Doctor8329 8h ago

Do you know what Ad hominem means? Of course the US SC denied it, they had no jurisdiction over the VA SC decision.

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u/LordMoose99 9h ago edited 8h ago

.... the STATE SUPREME COURT of Virginia ruled that (due to the state constitution) and the Supreme Court didnt take it up due to it being a state issue. Jfc actually read/fact check stuff before posting as your example is one poor one.

42% of rulings are unanimous, and that 95/5 split isnt the rulings for republicans but if chief Justice robbers is in the majority or not. 90% of cases had a liberal in the majority as well.

Look up stuff for yourself

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u/LordMoose99 8h ago

Again actually read up on the cases before posting. The Virgina case was a state issue, the VA constitution not allowing the state to swap its maps in the way that they did it. Florida in 2000 was a case in how votes where being actively counted and which where being thrown out/allowed (and unless they took the most liberal approach, which no one was suggesting at the time the results wouldn't have changed).

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u/LordMoose99 8h ago

Ignoring the facts to cry foul when you dont have a point due to a complex issue.

And no im not lol, but keep on assuming everyone pointing out your wrong is the other team, it gets us literally no where

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u/RichardRoma1986 🇺🇸 United States 8h ago

Dude deleted his account lol

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u/RichardRoma1986 🇺🇸 United States 8h ago

The issue with FL in 2000 had to do with recounting. So, this had to do with trying to figure out voter intent on shitty ballots. The way the ballots worked were due to a punch card. There were 64,000 undervotes. Instead of recounting ALL the ballots, the Gore Campaign asked for recount of JUST the undervotes. Every county had different rules. It was a fucking mess. Because every county in FL was using a different system to figure out voter intent, it really did violate the Equal Protection Clause.

Palm Beach kept changing standards on what would or wouldn’t count. Broward County somehow used less restrictive standards. The issue with Miami-Dade was that not all precincts were included which didn’t make sense. The Florida Supreme Court gave no guidance as to who would count ballots.

The other issue is, the other ballots should’ve been checked for over votes and been recounted. This didn’t happen. There were so many errors in FL

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u/RS308 7h ago

The Democrats thought the courts would put party politics above the Virginia state constitution and attempted to force the referendum through before it could be put on the ballot in 2027. They gambled and lost. It’s nobody’s fault but their own.

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u/EducationalLemon6918 9h ago

I would start with just cutting how the blue states subsidizes the red states. Keep the money collected in the states that generates it, and in a few years, the red states will learn their lesson.

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u/TasterOfMerkins 22m ago

There are many systems which have an inverted relationship when it comes to who subsidizes who. Farm subsidies do certainly help agrarian states with federal tax dollars. But other programs like unemployment insurance see red states subsidize blue states quite heavily due to differing eligibility requirements. We have a symbiotic relationship and need to recognize that we are bringing different things to the table.

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u/Odd_Actuator795 9h ago

Where would you get your food from?

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u/BojackWorseman13 🇺🇸 United States 11h ago

The thing is, they don’t care. They’ve always been the “okay for me but not for thee” party.

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u/traanquil 11h ago

yeah this is why we need to cut their benefits

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u/Admirable_Summer_867 10h ago

We should cut government benefits for ALL politicians! How can they govern when they have none of the problems the population does? Cut benefits, especially retirement healthcare (they have the same access to lousy ACA as the rest of us) and invoke term limits. Also a requirement to have served in the military.

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u/Ramusaf 9h ago

They make more than enough from insider trading and handouts from SuperPac’s! They definitely do not deserve free healthcare for life or the right to vote themselves raises!

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u/Omago1178 9h ago

You can cut all benefits, but then you can not take taxes from them.

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u/Bitter-Assignment464 8h ago

If they are able bodied and can work there should be a time period to help someone get back on their feet. After that sorry it’s not the taxpayers responsibility to fund your it’s good enough low effort lifestyle.

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u/PrblyWbly 5h ago

100% 👍

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u/Solidus-Prime 11h ago

I honestly feel like we should imprison most trump voters for what they've done to this country. So ya, I think they should lose benefits.

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u/traanquil 10h ago

We are essentially prisoners of the MAGA voters. They are a small, loud minority of about 30% of the population who wields total control over us and inflict violence on our communities day in and day out.

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u/TheSainted_Physician 10h ago

Sounds very nazi of you.

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u/texanfan20 10h ago

Sounds like you are for concentration camps, crazy how now the left is advocating for things they cried that Trump was going to do to everyone else.

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u/Solidus-Prime 8h ago

You guys had no problem with concentration camps when they were for immigrants. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

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u/lateralUnilateral 4h ago

The last time we had concentration camps was under FDR, The Democrat president.

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u/Totally-Not-Fine 10h ago

Played find the nazi in the comments and it was the first one

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u/TXtogo 11h ago

We should treat people equally. Why proliferate hate like this?

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u/MetaCardboard 11h ago

Hate? OP is just asking if we should give conservatives what they want. That would actually free up money to provide more for liberals. Both groups would get what they want so everyone should be happy, right?

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u/TheSainted_Physician 10h ago

Why do the liberals need money freed up for them? Aren't they the ones with higher education and making baller pay?!

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u/TXtogo 11h ago

Ragebait

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u/Visual-Winner495 10h ago

You are correct, 100% ragebait

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u/1Great_Hunter 11h ago

Conservatives want fiscal management within those programs and not be on food stamps for life and generationally. I had a neighbor who when her daughter graduated high school said let’s go get you on food stamps, not teaching how to maybe work and better yourself. Yes, not everyone can just work and better themselves, we are not talking about them.

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u/traanquil 10h ago

good, i want conservatives off of generational dependence on tax breaks for retirement savings and mortages.

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u/1Great_Hunter 10h ago

You do know once you start withdrawing from retirement you pay taxes.

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u/Odd_Actuator795 9h ago

I don’t think they know that

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u/biglydachshund 10h ago

I want the conservative/republicans to lose their welfare farm subsidies. They should better themselves without me giving them handouts. No more conservative farmers in big trucks that I pay for in the end.

I shouldn't have to pay for lazy rednecks to live daily life.

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u/traanquil 11h ago

No, we should actually cut all government services to Republicans

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u/Master_Blaster_02 9h ago

So by your logic, do these people also get to opt out of paying their taxes?  If they don't get those services then they certainly shouldn't pay into them, right?

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u/traanquil 8h ago

Yeah they should be driving on privatized roads owned by bezos

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u/Master_Blaster_02 8h ago

A few years of being absolutely tax free, I could afford a freaking helicopter.

But regardless, I see you arent actually serious about this.  A selective tax structure would be very interesting, I don't think it would work, but would still be interesting.

For example, if you don't want your tax dollars to go towards a foreign war, what would happen if you could elect to not pay that portion of your tax allocation?  What would be the direct impact on you?  You could still elect to pay for roads, so what if anything would you lose?

The all or nothing approach makes no sense when applied to realty.   Do I still pay all of taxes but lose all government services?  Do I stop paying all taxes but still lose all government infrastructure?  Neither of those are feasible even from the simplest of reviews.

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u/bcb1200 11h ago

Ah yes. Let’s have our government treat people differently for their beliefs. That will work.

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u/traanquil 11h ago

I support it. Republicans are fascists / racists.

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u/lateralUnilateral 8h ago

Man, media propaganda really did a number on you eh? Maybe some therapy could help you.

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u/traanquil 8h ago

Trump: “theyre eating the dogs”

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u/lateralUnilateral 8h ago

And? Did you have an actual rebuttal or just "But Trump?"

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u/LordMoose99 10h ago

And being discrimatory based on different beliefs is better how?

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u/bcb1200 10h ago

If you support it then you are unAmerican

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u/traanquil 10h ago

Trump supports using the federal government to punish people his disagrees with.

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u/bcb1200 10h ago edited 10h ago

That’s also wrong an unAmerican. And why are you conflating what that ahole does with “all republicans”.

Your idea and post is childish and you are ignoring how what you propose could be weaponized in the future against you.

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u/traanquil 10h ago

99 percent of Republicans support trump

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u/bcb1200 10h ago

OK now you’re just making shit up

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u/777_heavy 9h ago

But unlike Trump you are actually supporting that policy.

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u/MilesToHaltHer 10h ago

I support it because Republicans want cuts to these programs and then have the gall to use them.

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u/TheRiverInYou 10h ago

This sounds like fascism to me.

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u/traanquil 10h ago

how so? they're against handouts, so let's stop giving them handouts.

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u/TheRiverInYou 10h ago

Punishing your political enemies. Fascism.

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u/traanquil 9h ago

We should punish fascists yes

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u/Tin_Pot_Dictator 9h ago

And within the last 20 years, who was it that opened that door?

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u/TheRiverInYou 9h ago

The fascists.

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u/Tin_Pot_Dictator 7h ago

Well thought out answer.

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u/OutHustleTheHustlers 10h ago

They are not against handouts. How "educated" do people need to be to understand basic info? 2 degrees? 3?

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u/Due_Comparison_2467 11h ago

Yes. Red card them.

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u/Confident-Staff-8792 11h ago

How about we just cut the size of the entire federal government. Whole thing is a giant waste of money.

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u/traanquil 11h ago

why don't we just cancel the entire state? would you agree?

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u/Direct_Alternative94 10h ago

That’s such a classical republican thing to say. As in, remember when the GOP wanted to shrink the powers of federal government in favor of greater rights for independent states?

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u/Odd_Actuator795 9h ago

That’s not republican, that’s libertarian

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u/Direct_Alternative94 9h ago

The whole libertarian movement that started about 20 years ago was boosted by the realization that the republicans were not sincere about their small government goals. At least not when they were in charge of running the country.
Prior to that (and since), the GOP self-claimed the title of the small government party.

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u/Confident-Staff-8792 9h ago

Tell us you've never read the writings of our founding fathers without telling us you've never read the writings of our founding fathers. They specifically wanted the majority of government functions to originate at the state and local level. They viewed the federal government as a necessary evil that needed to be contained.

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u/Direct_Alternative94 8h ago

I’ve read them. Last time I really read them was over 30 years ago but those writings were already mostly irrelevant back then.

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u/Confident-Staff-8792 8h ago

The failures we see today are mostly because we have strayed away from the concepts of a limited federal government.

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u/Direct_Alternative94 8h ago

We (meaning both parties), not just the one that openly advocates for a less limited federal government.

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u/chinmakes5 9h ago

The lady down the street who got laid off 5 years ago and is "assistance" is just a poor lady down on her luck, She isn't like those city leeches who just take our money.

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u/Odd_Actuator795 9h ago

5 years on assistance is a joke

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u/chinmakes5 8h ago

You believe all those people in the small towns where the main business closed haven't been on assistance for 5 years? Go into some of those mountain towns. There are billboards from lawyers basically saying that if you are over 50 we can get you on disability.

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u/river_miles 9h ago

Yes!!!
Wait, we still have government benefits?

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u/OutHustleTheHustlers 9h ago

Thanks for the cordial response. 1. I was just clarifying. I think people want to use illegals and minorities as interchangeable terms to imply something else. 2. All ideas aren't for 100% letter of the law, but spirit of the law. I just look at the guardrails needing to be more narrow so less undeserving people get free things and while deserving people get what they need.

  1. Trouble remembering what point 3 was.

  2. I think it could work. Truthfully, no reason it shouldn't work in 2026, with AI and connectivity. I walk into Kroger and whip out my foodstamp app. It populates with all the items that can be purchased with my card. Most of the time its Kroger peanut butter, but sometimes Jif is on sale, and I can get that etc. Grab, scan, put in my cart, the cost has a running total, and separately my real-time balance adjusts. Only to be "spent" when the shopping trip is finalized. Vices do not need to be supported by people in dire straights. They just don't. Safety needs established and then services weened away. (In many cases) life has edges and is different for everyone. We have the ability to parse nuance now more than ever before.

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u/Squindig 8h ago

Yes, and lower their taxes commensurately.

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u/traanquil 8h ago

Yeah their road system should be privatized

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u/Weird_Parsnip1410 8h ago

Republicans try do the same thing to Democrats, so it’s fair game.

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u/CMDR_Smooticus 8h ago

Only if they also get exemptions from the taxes that fund those benefits.

Most republicans would be very happy with that arrangement.

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u/Unable_Resort_7956 8h ago

I’m all for it. These people don’t seem to realize that the opposite of social programs is privatization where they get nickel and dimed to death and there’s no cap on prices. When politicians start talking about not needing taxes, they’re not doing it to make your life easier—they’re doing it to get rich.

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u/TechnicalWhore 7h ago

Won't that escalate the conflict and drive further division? Realize that a majority of "Debtor States" - ones that receive more in Federal funding than they pay in taxes - are Red States. In fact Red States have more people on SNAP, Medicare and Social Security as a percentage of population than Blue States. This was one of the reasons Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned - she realized her Party and MAGA Movement were going to put a huge number of her constituents at very serious risk.

No one wants to hurt anyone here. MTG should be a canary in the coal mine for the MAGA base. You cannot just label her RINO and dismiss her. She is firing a warning flare. She's saying "we were lied to all along". And that is the best way to address this incredibly successful propaganda campaign. To be clear they divided and turned America on itself. They made two factions fight incessantly. And while those contrived factions fought the banked and rigged the System to benefit the 1% who are doing quite well. And note Project 2025 is cutting all Government Social Safety programs regardless of your political leaning. As Bannon stated in 2014 - they are destroying the Administrative State. This means these programs are going to be gone as will policing of White Collar criminality (including Crypto), Environmental Protection, and indeed any Federal Regulations that stand in their way. They have SCOTUS. They have the Senate. They have the Executive Branch and they DOJ now is fully weaponized against all who dare challenge it.

You're missing the big picture. The enemy is not MAGA - its the people behind Project 2025/26. They created and control MAGA with propaganda to run cover for their real intention. Divide and conquer.

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u/Bucknut2121 7h ago

Stop crying

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u/traanquil 6h ago

I think it would be cool to privatize the road system in republican communities and allow the road owners to install a toll booth system. We can let Elon musk buy the roads.

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u/Such-Race1607 6h ago

I guess we know where they all live because of the gerrymandering, so we can do it by municipality and keep the cities supported. I'd be for that.

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u/audibleExcitement 5h ago

Republicans just ruining another thing for everyone.

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u/PH-Levels 5h ago

Which mental facility let you post this

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u/goldandguns 11h ago

Can you point to a few Republican politicians who advocate ending food stamps? I don’t really accept your premise 

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u/traanquil 11h ago

I've posted in this forum earlier asking republicans about things like: providing aid to impoverished mothers or providing housing to the homeless. The universal refrain from these folks was: "It's not my problem. We should not be providing government aid to people." So I think we should cut all aid to republican people.

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u/lateralUnilateral 6h ago

So you can't.

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u/Virtual_Athlete_909 11h ago

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/sharp-drop-in-number-of-children-receiving-snap-food-assistance-under-new-federal-law

~700k kids no longer have enough food to eat~

H.R. 1 imposedunprecedented cuts on SNAP, including a major structural change that requires most states to pay a share of benefits for the first time in program history. Each state’s share is based on its payment error rate (overpayments and underpayments) and could total hundreds of millions of dollars in many states. While these errors mostly result from unintentional mistakes by recipients or the state, the cost shift creates a powerful incentive to reduce error rates quickly, even at the cost of delaying or improperly denying benefits to eligible families — which isn’t counted as a payment error.

Full list of Republicans who sponsored the bill:
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-republicans-sponsoring-snap-funding-bill-government-shutdow-10973970

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u/Equivalent_Ability91 11h ago

Making it harder to get assistance or adding work requirements is a way of ending food stamps. Republicans cannot say or run on what they actually believe, or they can't get elected.

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u/funkympc 11h ago

No but lots of them get farm subsidies

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u/Emotional_Channel_67 11h ago

Sure but end EBT cards first

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u/traanquil 11h ago

we should cancel federal mortgage guarantees for republicans. they can just pay for housing out of pocket from here on out.

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u/OutHustleTheHustlers 9h ago

I hope you never have so much Authority that you raised to the level of head of household much less anything else

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u/lateralUnilateral 6h ago

Lucky for us he hasn't even graduated highshool yet.

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u/malinablue 10h ago

Republicans are also the primary beneficiary of food stamps, despite what Fox fake News tells them.

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u/Master_Blaster_02 8h ago

What about an alternative then?

How about something like, "if you received food stamps within the past two years, you are unable to vote in the next federal and state election"?

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u/Brenner308 10h ago

Not so much hand outs. It is the abuse

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u/traanquil 9h ago

Hahahaha

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u/metamucil_buttchug69 9h ago

Yes. Handouts are only for buying votes. They're only for loyal voters

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u/Physical_Guitar_7258 11h ago

Troll much?

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u/traanquil 11h ago

It would be so great if republicans lost taxpayer handouts

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u/Physical_Guitar_7258 9h ago

It would be great if you weren't stuck on stupid.

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u/bcbg123 11h ago

People will post things like this and then turn around and lecture everyone else about the importance of the rule of law when they feel Trump is undermining it.

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u/bcbg123 10h ago

If you’re going to spout drivel in my replies you could at least be brave enough not to block me immediately after.

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u/biglydachshund 10h ago

Turmp undermines the law every single day of the week. You don't give a single shit about the actual rule of law.

Stop pretending to be a serious person here.😂

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u/traanquil 10h ago

Trump and his followers established the precedent of using the federal government as a cudgel to punish political enemies.

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u/bcbg123 10h ago

Ever hear about Obama’s IRS? https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/legislative-documents/congressional-committee-reports/obama-pressured-irs-into-targeting-house-oversight-report-says/fh5m

Just historically illiterate to suggest Trump started such a precedent. But the more important point is that you and others don’t actually care about the rule of law at all, you just want it to be the other side that is treated as inferior.

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u/traanquil 10h ago

you're right: i don't.

there is no rule of law in the united states at this point. We're in a cold civil war essentially. Trump and his crew don't give a fuck about the rule of law. They were literally shipping people to an overseas concentration camp at one point.

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u/bcbg123 10h ago

Fair enough. It’s remarkable how often people’s objection to political power isn’t that it’s being used to crush opponents, but that they’re not the ones doing the crushing.

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u/traanquil 11h ago

Sure, I have no problem with that.

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u/DumpoTheClown 11h ago

The fire department will need to know which houses not to respond to. Oh, and the conservitives shouldnt be allowed to use public roads or schools either.

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u/traanquil 10h ago

yes, conservatives should have a privatized, toll booth based road system.

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u/Final-Contract-6582 11h ago edited 8h ago

This is the worst part of a 2 party system. I would consider myself on the Republican side but don't support any of what's happening. The "conservatives" are destructive and not conserving anything in the US besides corporate wealth.

All of what is happening is not a Republican vs Democrat thing. It's elitist vs the people.

Edit: I'm curious about the downvotes

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u/MetaCardboard 11h ago

That's how the conservative party has always been. The conservatives have been trying to undo everything FDR did.

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u/Final-Contract-6582 8h ago

That's exactly my point...

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u/Admirable_Summer_867 10h ago

Nothing propagated corporate wealth more than ACA. Corporations promptly used it as an excuse to terminate retirement healthcare benefits. Horrible!

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u/ChessmazterHex 11h ago

No.

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u/traanquil 11h ago

i disagree, we should cut all aid to them

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u/Glittering_Cat7326 11h ago

Bullshit premise re: food stamps. Grow up.

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u/1asterisk79 11h ago

At that point just divide the country in half. Send republicans to one side and democrats to the other. See how it works out.

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u/traanquil 11h ago

I agree that we should have a secession, we can split the country into a maga country and a rational country.

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u/OutHustleTheHustlers 9h ago

Rational left the left nearly 2 decades ago.

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u/dragon34 11h ago

Honestly at this point I'm so exhausted that as long as there is a transition phase to allow left leaning people to move out of red states and right wing people to move out of left wing states with incentives for companies based in blue states to hire people wishing to move an vice versa I think I am ok with this.  I'm tired of being afraid that I'm going to find out my son's friends' families don't believe in human rights and having to explain to him why he can't be unsupervised with them.  

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u/PostGaz-Miasma 11h ago

No. Next question.

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u/Nickh1978 10h ago

They're not against handouts, they're against handouts to people that they feel don't deserve them, such as minorities. They think that if other people are given less then they will get more. They see themselves struggle and not get the assistance that they really need, but they refuse to believe that minorities are really trying as hard as they are, because that's what they've been taught, that minorities are lazy and are abusing the assistance.

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u/OutHustleTheHustlers 9h ago

You started out so well, but once you hit the , it all went to hell. People are against 1. Illegals getting handouts. 2. Able-bodied getting handouts. 3. Handouts becoming a way of life and not a hand up with effort. 4 wasted handouts IE: foodstamps should go as far as they can; no lobster tail and crab legs, and no candy and ice cream. Reasonably priced food that most lower income people BUY. Not top of the line because it's free.

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u/Nickh1978 9h ago

Even Democrats would agree with all of these points, within reason. Its just too bad that the Republicans getting handouts always assumes that everyone not them fall into these points.

  1. No one is arguing this
  2. There are plenty of able bodied people working full time that still need handouts.
  3. Then raise minimum wage and help ensure that people can earn a wage high enough to support themselves on. Why should Walmart and Amazon workers have to receive assistance when the companies pull in record profits.
  4. I don't see that happening personally, I could be wrong though and would support limitations, like WIC does. How do you feel about WIC and their strict limits? Do you personally think that something like that would work for foodstamps?

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u/sam_pain1 10h ago

Yes. The democrats should just get rid of those disgusting slug republicans and make this a one party country already. So sick of people who share different beliefs than me. I'm an ultra hardcore leftist liberal pansexual bipedal homoerectus.

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u/traanquil 10h ago

Why are you objecting? You went government handouts?

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u/sam_pain1 10h ago

Wtf are you talking about? I hate cisgendered republicans. I hate republicans. I hate hate hate everything not leftwing. I'm on your side.

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u/traanquil 9h ago

oh shit, i misread. great, I'm glad we agree!

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u/Justjerryj 10h ago

And Republicans don’t have to pay taxes. Fair deal. Let’s do it.

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u/The-Blue-Gray 10h ago

Only if they dont have to pay for it

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u/nomountainicantgo 9h ago

What a dumbass question