r/politics • u/TurretLauncher • 27d ago

Congress voted against funding a cure for cancer just to block a win for Biden

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/05/05/biden-cancer-moonshot-initiative-congress-funding/73525016007/
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u/Marcion10 27d ago

Republicans haven't even TRIED to balance the budget since Eisenhower

http://goliards.us/adelphi/deficits/index.html

They've been bad for the economy for 100 years

https://medium.com/@davidkellyuph/every-republican-president-over-the-last-100-years-has-had-a-recession-baa20aa7b107

They push the burden of taxes on individual workers while the rich and corporations skate by

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texans-pay-more-taxes-than-californians-17400644.php

https://www.floridapolicy.org/posts/floridas-state-and-local-taxes-rank-48th-for-fairness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38

They're not interested in fiscal responsibility, only sabotaging the nation so as damage is caused, their backers can buy out property on the cheap in fire sales.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

I was in my mid 20's back around 20 years ago when I realized this and left the Republican Party (among other reasons that I foolishly believed they, well, believed in). The party has always been a bunch of lying, greedy fucks.