Highlights from Project 2025, presented in words and pictures. At the moment the site seems to be, like the Republican view of billionaires, overtaxed.
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
That Musky Stench
This isn’t just a crime, it’s a coup. Next? Social Security. The first benefits to be cut will be for people on disability.
Musk’s DOGE granted access to US Medicare and Medicaid systems
Musk’s DOGE operatives who are freely roaming around the Treasury’s payment system aren’t experienced, responsible professionals. They’re children.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-musketeers-secret-team-elon-221351736.html
The Inevitable Outcome
With Republicans in full control of the federal government, the big banks will be free to do whatever they want. This will greatly increase the likelihood of another financial crisis.
A F- -k in the Road Ahead
“So you have to be very humble about, wow, if you miss a turn in the road, you can be annihilated.”
-Bill Gates
Here we are, six months away from the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. That was when Gates almost missed a turn in the road before realizing the future wasn’t CD-ROM libraries and proprietary, online commercial networks.
A Tax By Any Other Name
It may be bad timing using Airplane! to make a point about Trump’s tariffs, but economists are concerned about them.
https://econbrowser.com/archives/2025/02/i-guess-i-picked-the-wrong-week
It’s beyond comprehension that Trump continues to insist that an IMPORT TAX will be paid by the exporting country. One option would be for the exporter to accept reduced revenue as a way to maintain export volume:
- A $100 item is levied with a 25% tariff
- The item now costs $125 in the United States
- The export price is reduced from $100 to $80
- The resulting price with the 25% tariff is back at $100
- No net negative effect on the consumer
- No reduction in demand
Will that happen? Not likely, but that’s how it would have to work. One way to consider the tariffs as a good thing, is to think of them as compensating for the further tax cuts to come for those who don’t need them. I’ve convinced myself that was a reason why Biden kept Trump’s first term China tariffs in place.
Common Senselessness
Trump doesn’t need to invalidate the 22nd Amendment to make the next four years seem like eight.
“I have common sense, OK?” Trump said when pressed what evidence he had to give credence to the blame he piled on the Biden and Obama administrations. “Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/politics/donald-trump-dc-plane-crash/index.html