Mitch McConnell says Senate Republicans may try again to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in the midterm election, per @Reuters.https://t.co/fB8OVk2Wb2 — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 17, 2018 Go vote early if your state allows you to do so. Open thread
Fuck The Middle-Class
So Sorry, We Gave All the Money to the Rich People
This is amazing: President Donald Trump told lawmakers on Thursday he wants to scrap a pay raise for civilian federal workers, saying the nation’s budget couldn’t support it. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Trump described the pay increase as “inappropriate.” “We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable …
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Screwing the People From Every Angle- Electricity Edition
This is great, and by great, fucking horrible: As coal mining has collapsed across Appalachia, residents in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia have been socked with a double whammy—crippling electric bills to go along with a declining economy. The pain in a region once known for cheap power has been felt in homes, businesses, schools …
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Right on Schedule: The Next Phase of the Bust Out
The Republicans are like the mafia, but less subtle: CNBC’s John Harwood: You were, during the Obama administration, a big critic of rising levels of national debt. We see the deficit going up to $1 trillion next year, debt levels are rising. About the tax cut: Did you guys go about it the wrong way? …
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Kids are expensive
This is not a health policy post, just an observation from my life. The New York Times reported that fertility rates are declining in America. Americans are having fewer babies. At first, researchers thought the declining fertility rate was because of the recession, but it kept falling even as the economy recovered. Now it has …
What’s going on in Texas
I am not a lawyer, so please don’t take any of the following as informed legal analysis. The Trump Administration has decided to argue that the $0 penalty individual mandate is unconstitutional and therefore community rated guaranteed issue requirements are unconstitutional as they are non-severable from the mandate. That would destroy the individual market reforms …
Now On to the Next Phase of the Looting
Pete Peterson might be dead, but the GOP quest to gut Medicare and Social Security marches on: The financial future of the part of Medicare that pays older Americans’ hospital bills has deteriorated significantly, according to an annual government report that forecasts that the trust fund will be depleted by 2026 — three years sooner …