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The Big (true) Beautiful (not so much) Bill

by Jim Elliott
| May 28, 2025 12:00 AM

After all the concern about runaway government spending and the hand wringing about the budget deficit why on earth would Congress want to pass a tax bill that cuts taxes for the 400-plus American billionaires, pays for it by penalizing sick and lower income people and STILL increases the deficit by $3 trillion?

And, why on earth would the administration want to cut the IRS, the people that actually collect the taxes and root out tax fraud?

There’s an easy answer – to cut government by lowering the amount of money available to spend.

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