It's just normal Republican logic. Yes, this is going to benefit the rich incredibly and there is no hiding that at all. However, as usual it will help the average person but only if they know how to take advantage of it and can take the risk. In other words, very few average people (by proportion) will see any benefit to this.

What really shocks me about this decision though is the tax implications. I haven't read the full details yet but I want to know the estimates on tax income for the government. 401k gains are not taxed, so it will be like the IRA situation in which you can add in a certain amount to shield from taxes. Which means, sometime in the next 3 or so years we are going to see both parties trying really hard to increase that cap significantly in order to take advantage of more shielding. Which, again, really helps the average person who knows how to take advantage of it but not nearly as much as the rich.

So they are using this for the same exact reason Trump is yet liberals support the EU doing it. I'll spell it out for you so even a DR lib kid should be able to understand (not that it matters as all they will do is resort to name calling and demonizing because they can't deny it).

Trump saw that other countries were taking advantage of the US in trade deals, and have been for decades. So his plan is to modify them so that it makes more sense for America to produce what it can produce and only import what it needs that it can't make on its own or doesn't make sense to make on its own. If you read the article, that's exactly what EU is doing now. Now that the trade deals with the US aren't as lucrative and beneficial to them for the sake of the US, they are not looking at what they can produce and only import what they need that they can't make on their own or doesn't make sense to make on their own. And there is nothing wrong with this. But liberals still for some reason cling to the idea that they want other countries to take advantage of the hard work Americans have done for 250 years to become economic power we are today.

All it takes is like a little bit of reasoning skills. A little bit of critical thinking. It doesn't take much. But, the first step you have to take to EVER be able to recover from your problem, and it is a problem, is that you have to get rid of your partisan blinders and learn objectivity. Now, objectivity doesn't mean you have to agree with everything, all it means is you don't hold beliefs so ingrained in your psyche that you are incapable of seeing from other valid perspectives. So it's not attacking your ego, which is a liberal's food these days in politics.

Rofl, this is the exact opposite flex than liberals think it is, just proving again they have a big problem with logic.

If they didn't do anything, then there was no need for the violence and uproar. For all those days, all we heard as that they were forcefully removing people off the streets, breaking apart families, abducting anyone who had brown skin and shipping them away, etc....yet now liberals are saying they didn't do anything.

I'd be embarrassed if I were still a Dem. I mean, like incredibly embarrassed enough to not want to even show my face or anything to anyone who knew I was a liberal. The fact that liberals aren't is more telling than anything a Dem or Rep politician has done.

"Companies are likely to respond by building fewer of those projects, and those facilities that do come online will have bigger price tags, according to multiple estimates."

The "No duh" of this entire article is palpable. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT REPS WANT. This makes it more profitable for traditional sources of energy so investors will turn more to those.

Whether you like that or not is not this article's intent. It's actually trying to spread hate because of what Reps want to do. It is absolutely no different than saying the number of murders and rapes by immigrants will increase due to Dem policies. It is very true but it's not a surprise, Dems want open borders. No duh. Whether you like that or not is not the issue.

You could title this article "Reps staying balanced in their ideological approaches" and it still be true. They aren't doing anything different here. They are against green energy so want to make traditional energy more profitable. Dems don't like traditional energy so they do everything they can to make that more profitable.

No freaking duh.

Liberals, including all you DR kids, already laid the groundwork for how to respond to significantly increasing inflation (which this isn't but I'll pay your game). I'm just going to respond how liberals did during Biden's era since it was good enough for them and they can't hate me for it. This inflation is fake. It's misinformation. And, any of it that is real is only attributable to his predecessor. It's so obvious and anyone who disagrees with me is stupid.

God I love 21st century liberal logic and hypocrisy, it makes it so easy.

"And word on the Immigrant Detention Price Increase?
How much have we spent making people stay in camps and moving them from camp to camp before deporting them?"

Too easy. I can tell you with confidence that the cost of all of that is at or below the FWA that DOGE uncovered. Yet, liberals have been touting ever since that getting rid of FWA is actually bad for America. So, unfortunately, your idea can't be entertained. Don't blame me, I'm just the messenger. Blame Dems and all the DR lib kids on here for using that logic.

Oh ---- yeah! That would be awesome! When America's economy tanks artificially, it means my networth goes up significantly because I know how to invest and use my money. Also, artificial recessions have been the biggest boons to America's economy in the past more than any other type of recession/depression.

I know it's sexy to spread doom and gloom purely based on partisan hate and current events and I know that's all this is but, once someone gives up that kind of slave mentality, their eyes open to a whole new world of financial freedom.

Wow, you mean someone in one party is spreading negative opinions about foreign affairs about a POTUS that is in another party? I mean, I haven't ever seen that happen since every single day of Biden's term when Reps were doing it, every single day of Trump's first term when Dems were doing it, every single day of Obama's term when Reps were doing it, every single day of W's terms when Dems were doing it, every single day of Clinton's terms when Reps were doing it, every single day of Bush's term when Dems were doing it, every single day of Reagan's terms when Dems were doing it, and every single day of Carter's reign when Reps were doing it. Now, prior to 2000ish it wasn't every day but almost considering most of the time you had to read newspapers to see it. And I'm sure it happened every day prior to Carter but I was too young to really know.

But, this time it's true, right? This time it's worth saying, right?

It's really stupid to say Reps are tearing themselves apart or that this has any serious consequences on the party. That being said, it's crazy to see how much anxiety this has caused Reps over some stupid guy who both liberal AND conservative powerhouses shmoozed with.

"This is sickening. MAGA Nation is doing everything it can to rationalize the fact that they knowingly elected and then re-elected a------------."

It's also sickening that he isn't a rapist but whiney liberals are doing everything they can to deflect from the fact that many prominent Democrats were buddies with Epstein and travelled extensively with him and his girls. In other words, liberals don't want anyone to know that liberals were part of Epstein's circle just as much as cons.

See how easy it is to make stupid statements based on conjecture?

Based on how liberals have handled this war, we now know they want to continue to enable the war machine profits over actually trying to end wars. If liberals actually listened to what they said instead of just saying whatever it is that opposes the other political party, they would actually be objective enough to see this. Liberals praised Biden's sending of military supplies only AFTER Reps started trying to block them...before that, it was just a typical response and neither side really held any strong opinion.

Since Reps fought so strongly against sending aid (and not for the right reason, so don't get me wrong in thinking I'm supporting them), Dems couldn't just think critically and logically and determine the right response. Instead, they just immediately went to whatever the opposite was of Rep support.

Now that we have a long enough trend, it is every easy to logically conclude that liberals want corporations who manufacturer these supplies to continue to do so. Which is odd considering not that long ago and for decades prior, liberals fought against the rich getting richer and especially against how much the US's defense budget is (to spell it out for the DR lib kids, the budget is what includes the buying of military supplies). Yet, now they are all about being the world's supplier of military supplies which just enables the rich and enables the US war machine.

Trump comes along and wants to stop the actual problem, which is the war. Unfortunately, being the idiot he is, he of course did it in the most blowhardest way of any blowharding in history, but that doesn't mean he was wrong. Liberals may not agree but many others do agree that they would rather have the war stop, and in a peaceful manner. So Trump tried that route first, whereas Biden did not even make an attempt (and any effort he did make was squashed because while Trump may be a blowhard, Biden is a submissive who can't be taken seriously by any world leader). Yet, Trump trying to end the war peacefully was met with hate from Dems.

Go ahead and try to argue it all you want that anything I've said above isn't accurate and doesn't follow sound logic based on the empirical evidence publicly available to us all. It doesn't change the logical conclusion. You just have to be objective enough and take off your partisan blinders to actually understand.

A simple Google search tells us 2 things...

1. Immigrants are leaving their pets behind from wherever they come from.
2. Under Biden, pets being left at the border by immigrants was a serious problem, and immigrants KNEW they wouldn't be able to bring them in.

In other words, this is nothing new. And if you care so much about the pets, then you have yet ANOTHER reason to not be pro-immigration since the migrants are leaving their pets behind when they leave in the first place.

Wooooooooooooooow....so some of you actually think this is new behavior? This isn't even hidden. Countries are open about their lobbying. They all try to lobby to get the US to do something. This has been going on since the 1800s.

But, hey, put a partisan spin on it and liberals will believe anything. I mean, Iran lobbied hard to get Obama to cut them some slack and that ended up being a multi-billion dollar payment.

Infrastructure that has taken decades to get to where it is at now, all while being ignore by politicians for decades...and yet we STILL have clueless people trying to make it a partisan issue based on who sits in the POTUS seat on whichever day the article comes out.

"Thanks, Trumpers!
Americans will long remember your contribution to our demise."

Want to know the true reason why we have so many problems. This is it. This is the biggest reason by FAR. There are a lot of other reasons but this, voters who can't get over their own bias, is the biggest problem. These kinds of people aren't holding everyone accountable for what they do wrong, they are only holding those with a different opinion than them accountable while ignoring the masses of people who are culpable over decades of time. Especially a topic that comes up almost every...single...year...regardless of which party is in office.

It is mind-boggling how myopic someone's mind has to be to actually allow themselves to be herded by puppet masters. Absolutely mind boggling. And this can't be argued because no intelligent person who isn't having their strings pulled would ever allow themselves to be so easily manipulated.

Well, first off, making claims about different reasons why this occurred, one has to wonder why they came up with distant causal relationships between numbers but didn't mention the glaring one that is most recent...Trump stopped immigration SIGNIFICANTLY. I don't find it surprising at all, less immigrants and less murders...shocking! While the numbers were going down already, they only started to steeply decline when the border closed.

I mean, if you are going to make generalized statements with very little factual basis, let's not ignore the ones with more empirical evidence than the longshots mentioned in the article. Whether it's true or not is inconsequential, all that matters is we include every possibility and stop being stupidly biased in our conclusions.

Secondly, since LA decided to stop reporting metrics regarding metadata of crimes, conclusions are even harder to make. They don't report details of the crimes anymore so there is no way to even determine what the decline can be attributed to (2022 and after).

Thirdly, if everything that was good under Biden was Biden's fault and everything bad under Biden was Trump's fault as all Dems like to say, then everything good under Trump is Trump's fault. Thank you Trump!

Rofl. I was forced to start budgeting after Biden's inability to contain covid for a long time like he said he would do and his ridiculous inflation numbers, and Trump has just prolonged it by implementing increases without a go-forward plan to enact decreases elsewhere.

Another POTUS, another negative impact to my wallet. Before these two idiots, I lost 8k a year to Obamacare, I lost a ton under W because I had to sell property in 2009 that had depreciated by a large amount, and under Clinton I lost money on futures because of his stupidity of transferring debt just because he wanted to trick voters into thinking he paid off our deficit.

Why partisan people only care about the money they lose under POTUS's that don't belong to their party is beyond me.

"MAGA government doesn't want flood management.

True. Just as much as liberal government doesn't want appropriate fire response.

This country is full of so many stupid hypocrites that it's amazing we even get anything accomplished at all.

"The State of Texas, and MAGA, are engaged in a massive evasion of responsibility and in the end will do little or nothing about these flood deaths until the next time there is a massive flood, at which time they will also evade responsibility."

Here, let me unhypocricize that for you...

The State of California, and liberals, are engaged in a massive evasion of responsibility and in the end will do little or nothing about these fires until the next time there is a massive fire outbreak, at which time they will also evade responsibility.

I mean, it's so easy to expose liberal hypocrisy that it MUST be on purpose. I just can't figure out why they want to do it on purpose. It doesn't accomplish anything. In fact, it does the opposite.

No different than when my income was lowered by over 8k per year because I was forced to get health insurance because a Democrat made it a law. I hadn't been to a doctor for a few years prior to that so never had insurance and I still didn't go to the doctor for 3 years after I paid the healthcare tax that Obama passed. So spare me how much Trump's stupid decisions will impact people. If you don't like stupid decisions being made then stop supporting them on your side, too.

"Religious conservatives claim Katrina was God's omen, punishment for the United States (2005)"

Yeah, this proves that you DO understand what hypocrisy is. So a stupid evangelist (aligning with the convservative party says that about Katrina and liberals go nuts. Yet, a natural disaster happens that impacts people of the conservative narrative and all of a sudden it's OK for liberals to claim the floods were due to the beliefs of conservatives.

Absolute proof that some of you DR lib kids do actually understand hypocrisy, which means much of what you say is predicated on the fact that you are ignoring your own hypocrisy that doesn't meet your narrative. Which is what many people have been saying and liberals have been denying. Yet, here you are, proving it beyond any doubt. Which is kind of surprising since you are one of the more vocal extreme lib kids on DR. I didn't think you would ever be so daring as to prove the point entirely. I mean, kudos for at least admitting you own your hypocrisy but why do you choose to hurt America by doing that?

Extremists on both sides are a huge problem. Unfortunately, libs and cons are too busy whining about only half of them (that don't support their narrative) and giving the other half a full pass (those who do agree with their narrative) on their extremist that nothing will ever change.

"Last time Trump was in the White House, he did the same thing, tried to enlist an army of the emotionally disabled, people who struggle with logic and need to have a strong leader to help them get through their day."

I'm sorry, have you missed the "safe spaces" of the emotionally fragile, the inability to live life without being called a certain pronoun, not understanding the logic behind why defunding those who protect you is bad, etc. of the last decade? Everything you just said describes liberals waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than cons, and there is AMPLE, VAST, and any other word meaning absolutely enormous amount of evidence that proves that.

I'm no fan of most Reps but your statement is by far one of the most absurd I've heard in a long time. Liberals can't even use enough logic to know the definition of a woman and which bathroom to use, and that's not conjecture, that is pure fact regardless if you don't like it. Again, there is an almost infinite amount of evidence to prove my case that you can't deny it.

So, that just means you are choosing to spread misinformation and hate just because your ego and vanity makes you have to get everyone to believe you for some reason. In other words, your need for validation basically just describes yourself in your own statement.

And this is no more or less dangerous and stupid than Dems hiring scientists who refuse to ever hold any different opinion about climate change even when there is peer-reviewed, empirical evidence in front of them that proves them wrong.

There is a level of anthropogenic climate change. There is also a level of nature correcting the situation itself, but not fully. Yet, if you bring up anything that says climate change isn't perfect science and there is a lot of fear-mongering over biased science, liberals go nuts. Just like cons do if anyone tries to say anthropogenic climate change doesn't exist.

So, how will this play out? That is very easy to predict. What will happen is, eventually, climate change will significantly negatively impact humanity and humanity has the ability to lessen the impacts, but we will be too busy fighting each other over whether or not it's real to actually do anything meaningful about it. That's all we do is argue back and forth over the idea and do nothing at all to actually address the problem. Spending so much time and resources on biased science keeps us from spending more of that on medical research, helping the needy, etc. And ignoring the issue completely as if liberals are just making up the good, non-biased science that does exist is equally as dangerous and stupid because it will be too late for us to do anything when the impacts cause people a lot of pain.

But hey, it's more important that liberals and conservatives whine and cry at each other constantly for decades, amirite?

Uh oh, something VERY eerily similar to this happened under Biden regarding crime metrics and the result of that was disastrous by them changing the reporting standards. Now we have reporting that is optional and so complex that many precincts don't even report it anymore or only report certain metrics (and many are very large precincts), thus causing crime statistics to no longer be valid and objectively measured.

This is what the government does, a problem shows up and they find a way to make the problem worse. And with Trump's blowhardness, I don't think it's a stretch to say they have the capability to ruin this like nothing has been ruined in the history of ruination.

There is no correlation between what is right and America's economy. By spending money on the homeless, we are doing what's right but it hurts our economy...as just one glaring example. There are a huge number of things we spend on that hurt our economy but is the right thing to do. Trying to make that causal link is just bias garbage that hurts America way more than removing illegals by any objective metric.

Also, so many liberals have already gone nuts over the fact that Biden deported way more migrants in the same amount of time than Trump has. So, if jobs were really hurting, this would have all already happened and have been a problem for several years. So, stop lying about all those farmers you "know" or have "heard" are suffering...it's not true. It wasn't true under Biden and it's not true under Trump. And our export numbers prove there isn't a huge mass of migrants leaving either so you can't use that as an excuse.

The reality is that Trump's actions have caused very trivial drops in migrant numbers and even liberal outlets have reported that. Just because it doesn't meet your narrative isn't a reason to make up things or try to use it as context to spread hate. As usual, all it does is make you look worse and causes America to suffer.

Hilarious so many people who don't understand economics are spouting opinions as if they are relevant. This entire article is a war against investments. What it doesn't articulate, and something the average person who isn't rich doesn't understand, is that those investments aren't just sitting there. Those investments are being used to support the entire economy. If a billionaire like Elon has 1t invested in TSLA, that money isn't just sitting there. TSLA is using it to do all sorts of things, almost all of which are mechanics of our economy. Maybe they use part of that investment for R&D which allows them to vastly increase the viability of electric vehicles (didn't think about that, did you?), or maybe they use part of it to subsidize the costs of providing childcare to TSLA workers, etc.

It's no different than a bank. It's why Elon can't just decide to liquidate all $1t. Instead, TSLA would have to make him wait so they can liquidate other assets to pay him his money. It's because the money isn't just sitting there. It's moving. It's shaking. In fact, billionaire investments are a big portion of our economy. Without them, we would still be in 1980s economy and probably not be the world power anymore (China would have vastly surpassed us by now).

I'm not saying there isn't a better way to make those investments help non-rich people. In fact, I have an entire plan whereby we could use the profit they make from those investments (capital gains at time of sale, dividends, options/futures profit, etc.) and help the average person. But, of course, there is no way I can know all of the logistics of making it happen so it's just a thought...but something I wish I could shop around.

What many of you need to hear is this...yes, rich people make a lot for doing little. Yes, what they are taxes, while not disproportionate, impacts them far less than the average person. But, the saying "fight fire with fire" is not just cliche. The money is out there to be taken. There are many legit ways to improve your station just by using investments, even with nominal amounts. I've done it. It took a ---- of a lot of work and trial and error but I was able to do it and I come from section 8 housing when I was 19. I'm not rich but I actually have a date for retirement now, when just 20 years ago I was still clinging to the idea I was going to die in my office because I had nothing to retire on.

It's out there. You can either whine about it and try to fight the system, or you can join in. Dr. Dre has one of my favorite lines about this principle..."I'm eating steak while they struggle to break the slave mentality". Sure, you can play the victim and that will get you so far. Or, you can change your mentality and reap the benefits. You can never know until you try.

It's about time, so long as they keep it minimal.

"...they caused them to be so high by artificially driving up college tuition,..."

Actually, the tuition is only a small part of it. The bigger part is the amount of people who don't pay back their loans. To make up those shortfalls, the loaners have to increase interest rates. If you separate the total size of loans in aggregate and the interest paid on those loans, you will easily see that the problem isn't the loan premium. I'm not saying tuition isn't a problem, it's just only a small impact on the overall loan paybacks.

And saying a loan is predatory when the ENTIRE chain of events leading up to signing is completely and very clearly optional is also wrong. While the government didn't help things at all, they didn't force anyone to take a loan, choose a major that is meaningless and has no ROI, or misrepresent the loans in any way. In fact, it is the institutions themselves who have promoted college as a mandatory requirement.

tldr: Biden's inflation has caused food banks to lose all of their money and Trump is making it worse by cutting a lot of funding to people who don't want to be productive members of society.

Reading anything else into it means you are being biased.

First off, making conclusions on this article is just dumb. If every single one of those people broke the law and they were arrested, there is no problem. I'm not saying there can't be some shadiness going on but this article doesn't give ANY ammunition to make a conclusion one way or the other.

However, based on DR lib kids responses, it's very apparent they are being their normal selves when they don't want people who broke laws to be arrested. This has been the liberal theme since at least 2016 where liberals have done everything they can to stop police from arresting criminals, making sure they get no jail time or any repercussions, etc. It's sad to have a party in any political system that refuses to obey laws AND want to be free to refuse obeying laws. That is the liberal party of the 21st century. Both parties have their pros and cons and both are hypocritical and self-serving. However, in the Rep party it is a minority of stupid people who break laws, like racists wanting to kill someone of a different color, regardless if they are arrested or not. However, in the Dem party, it is filled with a majority of stupid people who want to be able to break laws and not be arrested. That isn't debatable as that is what has been reality for years now.

Knowing that and actually staying in the Dem party today is mind boggling unless you are fully supporting an anarchist system. And, if that is the case, then you ARE extremists and must accept that label.