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Where are they going to get the extra $7,200? (Original Post)
dalton99a
Apr 2025
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Yes. And there will be new "towns" that will referred to as "trumpervilles".
madinmaryland
Apr 2025
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VMA131Marine
(5,168 posts)1. This will push millions into poverty
dalton99a
(92,076 posts)2. Absolutely.
madinmaryland
(65,668 posts)3. Yes. And there will be new "towns" that will referred to as "trumpervilles".
This is going to get ugly really fucking quick. 🤬🤬
padfun
(1,887 posts)4. That will put a dent in my gambling budget.
I'll have to trim down my bet size. Or trim up if I'm winning.
stillcool
(34,407 posts)5. lucky you...guess you don't care
That's a huge chunk of my budget.
I don't have long to live so I like to enjoy every day the best that I can. I like to bet on things and I like to eat. Eating has taken a bite out of my budget and now this.
Skittles
(169,515 posts)6. too bad it's not only Trump voters
gawd how I fucking DESPISE them
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,452 posts)8. I would like to see some kind of a breakdown
of those numbers.
Stallion
(6,642 posts)10. Hell It Has Already Caused Me Many Times that Number in the Market
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Comrade Citizen
(344 posts)11. And to think.... President Biden reduced child poverty to a record low
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/09/record-drop-in-child-poverty.html
Child poverty, calculated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), fell to its lowest recorded level in 2021, declining 46% from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today.
