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To: Ron who wrote (539429)	10/4/2025 4:39:34 PM
From: Sam	4 Recommendations Recommended By rdkflorida2 S. maltophilia Tom Daly Wharf Rat Respond to of 541274

Another Dear Senator Tillis email-- Here is the crux of the issue: 1. Republicans keep saying that all their bill does is continue the spending that was already passed in the budget bill. Why can’t Democrats go along with that? 2. Democrats say that they can’t go along with it because what was in that bill was one trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid plus cuts to Obamacare subsidies at the end of the year which lead to hospitals closing and huge increases in health insurance premiums. 3. Those cuts enable tax cuts that will mostly go to already wealthy tax payers and corporations even though the truth is we can't afford the tax cuts even with the health care “savings”--the effect of the above is to increase the deficit by $2t. Republicans claim that the Democrats want to increase the deficit by $3t; not really, that is yet another lie, what Democrats really want to do is what Trump actually proposed for a very brief period of time a few months ago--increase taxes on the very wealthy. That proposal was shot down by the powers that be in the Republican party within a week (after they got over their collective shock that Trump would propose such a thing). Meanwhile the Republican Party continues to pretend that they are in favor of protecting Social Security and Medicare even as they add trillions to the deficit. I suppose the Republican Party deserves congratulations. They have had the goal of destroying Social Security and Medicare ever since each one of them was proposed under FDR and LBJ, respectively. And they have had the patience and discipline to engage in the "Starve the Beast" strategy to effectively make it very difficult to keep those programs alive. The people who have done this are very very special and deserve to raise a glass to congratulate themselves. Most of us, however, will not appreciate their activity as our lives will be immeasurably worsened.