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RonSupportsYou

"The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules
that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more."
The Trump Administration is dangerous to our health and our safety:
nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/poli
#extremism #politics #SafetyNet
“Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent and stable enforcement of regulations, and if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk.”

The New York Times · Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive ScaleBy Coral Davenport
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Kent Pitman

Continuing my own mini-filibuster inspired by Booker's unbelievable one, I want to add also my thoughts on the issue of deregulation of consumer protections.

In a 2009 essay, I made an argument that credit cards, especially the high rate ones, are a safety net of last resort, available to the poor who are ABANDONED by public safety nets, but who are forced to rent a second government that DOES offer a safety net. Those high interest rates are the TAX they pay to that privately rented government that offers them a lifeline. But the tax is not deductible. So they are double-taxed in a way rich people and businesses would never stand for. That's overly brief, but maybe you see where I was going. See the essay for more detail.

Credit Cards: A Tax on "Being Poor"
netsettlement.blogspot.com/200

netsettlement.blogspot.comCredit Cards: A Tax on “Being Poor”Seeing credit cards as double-taxation: a non-deductible private tax paid to a private government to get a private safety net.
#BookerSolidarity#BookerFilibuster#SenatorBooker
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beSpacific

How #Trump Plans to Seize the #Power of the Purse #budget From #Congress. The second-term president likely will seek to cut off #spending that #lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a #constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to #punish perceived #foes propublica.org/article/trump-i #corruption #democracy #SocialJustice #politics #president #power #legalresearch 3constitutio #courts 3hearings #GOP #MAGA #safetynet #civilliberties

ProPublicaHow Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress
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