It repeals state/local tax deductions and effectively penalizes people who live in states where there are higher taxes (and therefore states that tend to have more social safety nets and progressive voters.)
And this is JUST the stuff I’m aware of from listening to TONS of NPR coverage this month, which I then googled to find sources.
Jesus. This is bad.
Ya know…I feel like we have a responsibility to tell people this stuff ^^^
How many people will just hear a sound bite from Trump saying “the average American will get a $1200 tax break” or some other lie and be like “sounds good” and NEVER ACTUALLY PAY ATTENTION until it’s passed and we all end up even poorer than we are now.
If the snake could talk, he’d tell you the
first several times he shed his skin were
painful. It’s not now, but he still has the
memory. To lose a piece of you is an ache
you can’t put into words. He would say,
child, growing hurts no matter how you
do it. All that stretch. The tug-of-war
with your skin. I could make this pretty,
say there are valleys and rivers sprouting
beneath you. But I’m tired of turning pain
to beauty. When I press my finger to the
bruise, it only hurts. I shed my skin and
turn to walking pulse. Throb. Raw skin
and stretch marks. Clean, again. This
time: No tears. There’s no use in crying
over nature doing it’s job. The skin
becomes too snug, too tight around the
throat, so you shed it or you constrict and
lose your ability to breathe. The snake says,
you can’t fit back into dead skin. There’s no
blood or life there. Your heartbeat has to
rewrite itself to fit this new body.
hey tumblr,,, i know it’s not as big of a deal to you because it’s not america,,, but canada is having a net neutrality battle too
I think we’d all really appreciate if you signal boost content that explains all of this. We need help! There are more people in California than in all of Canada, but we still need to fight off big corporations like Bell, Shaw, Rogers, Telus and Cineplex, who are trying to steal our net neutrality. The likelihood that this goes through has nothing to do with it, we need to show our government that THIS ISN’T OKAY. THAT WE CARE ABOUT OUR NET NEUTRALITY! C’MON!
Okay but Muggleborn students whose first letter home reads “Dear Mum and Dad GRANNY WEATHERWAX IS THE HEADMISTRESS”
It becomes Tradition, as Discworld memes tend to do, with someone in the Common Room mentioning “Headmistress Weatherwax”, and then it becomes an in-joke with the people who were there even if they didn’t recognise the reference, and it spreads and grows, and the older Muggleborns tell the first-years who do know Discworld that Headmistress McGonagall actually knew Sir Terry, and was the inspiration for Granny, and you think it’s coincidence that Granny is so good at Borrowing and McGonagall can turn into a cat? and the Witches books get passed around, and we know how good Potterverse wizards are at critical thinking, and the upshot is that within a couple of weeks it is Established Fact that McGonagall is actually Granny Weatherwax.
And one day McGonagall stands at the podium at dinner time, and casts a baleful eye around the room, and says “I can’t be having with this.”
And the kids who started the rumour in the first place swiftly reevaluate all their life choices.
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