Thank you to all of our excellent speakers, musicians, volunteers, attendees, and mother nature for the beautiful setting.
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Knowledge: Trump+GOP+MAGA tax cuts for the RICH
GOP +TRUMP tax cuts are a MASSIVE transfer of money from the 99% to the top 1% of Americans.
May 4, 2023
The Trump Tax Law will enrich the RICHEST by $83,970 in Utah
In Utah the riches would be enriched by 84,000 dollars, and all others in Utah would see trivial savings in the range of 230 to 1,400 in taxes in 2026. The richest in our country, who clearly do not need more money, would be rewarded with windfalls 365 times the amount that the poorest would secure. (84,000/230=365). The rich have lobbied for favorable tax policy like this for many decades and This regime is happy to take bribes for such favored status.
This kind of a tax policy steals from almost everyone and gives almost all of our money to the wealthy.
https://itep.org/trump-tax-law-tcja-permanent-state-by-state-estimates/
https://itep.org/extending-temporary-provisions-of-the-2017-trump-tax-law-national-and-state-by-state-estimates/
Key findings
● The recently introduced TCJA Permanency Act would make the temporary parts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) permanent at a cost of $288.5 billion in 2026 alone.
● The poorest fifth of Americans would receive just 1 percent of that total while the richest fifth of Americans would receive nearly two-thirds.
● The bill’s most beneficial provisions for the richest 1 percent of taxpayers are the deduction for “pass-through” business income and the cut in the estate tax.
● The combined impact of extending the temporary TCJA provisions and the TCJA provisions that are already permanent is even more tilted in favor of the richest Americans.
The TCJA Permanency Act, recently introduced by Congressional Republicans, would make permanent the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that would otherwise expire at the end of 2025. The bill would cost $288.5 billion in 2026 alone.[1] The legislation would disproportionately benefit the richest Americans in several ways:
1) In 2026 the poorest fifth of Americans would receive just 1 percent of that total while the richest fifth of Americans would receive nearly two-thirds of that total.
https://sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/itep/Extending-Temporary-Provisions-of-TCJA-figure-1.png
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GOP budget plan will decimate food programs for children and poor neighbors, family and friend AND toss seniors on the streets from nursing homes, end medical coverage for many of the 72 million Americans who rely on it, make care worse for everyone, and result in >15,000 additional deaths by some estimates.
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Indivisible has a weekly newsletter about how the white house and GOP plan to fund this massive give-away to the rich.
The plan is to slash medical care for our most vulnerable (the poorest, sickest, disabled, kids, chronically incapacitated persons) and shifting almost one trillion taxpayer money to ultra-wealthy able-bodied families who CLEARLY don't need EVEN more money. They already own everything.
What's happening this week re: Trump's tax scam
This week, congressional Republicans return to DC after two weeks in their home districts meeting with hiding from constituents during April recess. Just before that recess, they finally passed a budget resolution to serve as
the blueprint for their Medicaid-killing, SNAP-slashing, and billionaire-enriching reconciliation plan, but
even that early step came with blaring warning signs for GOP leaders:
The resolution -- typically one of the easiest steps towards a final bill --
barely advanced after several false starts and delayed votes, and it only i
ncludes broad spending goals, not specific figures, due to sharp disagreements
about what funds to cut.
Twelve House Republicans -- enough to sink the bill in the House --
signed a letter opposing reductions in Medicaid coverage; meeting the budget
plan’s stated targets is nearly impossible without historic cuts to Medicaid
(among many other things).
We’re betting that the fissures in the Republican caucus only grew wider
during recess, when lawmakers unwillingly dealt with huge crowds of fired
up voters and pointed coverage of Medicaid and SNAP cuts from local media.
Now, Republicans are sprinting to write a bill that unites their fractured caucusaround hundreds (maybe thousands) of line-items detailing cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other
popular programs that working folks rely on. The GOP wants this done quick and quiet because t
hey know the more it gets talked about, the less popular it becomes.
Our job is to make the bill-writing process as long as possible -- with as much public
pressure and scrutiny as possible. Right now, the top way to do that is to call your Republican representative to say we won’t
pay the price of Trump’s tax cuts to billionaires!
If you have Republican senator(s), you can also call your Republican senator(s) to demand that they fight cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
Knowledge: CORRUPTION and loss of services
Updates, as the Trump-Musk-Putin-Stephen Miller dictatorship consolidates power.
Fraud, greed, and self-dealing
GOP republicans continue to enable and encourage the destruction of our country, the lawlessness, and daily violation of laws.
They could stop this corruption, the massive cuts to our benefits, the illegal cuts of valuable programs, the sale and destruction of public lands, the blatant sexism, the racism, and violations of the law.
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Discussion of bleak situation by Governor of Illinois
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Chris Murphy exposes corruption, greed, and self-enrichment schemes by regime and cronies---at our expense. Corruption and theft at this MASSIVE scale has never happened before in our country
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Wealth is controlled by the top of the top 1% in our country. These graphic show it. That must end.
Please refer to the compilation of reliable sources of NEWS AND INFORMATION.
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UTAH NEWS Funding cuts threaten domestic violence services in northern Utah, nonprofit warns
Let's create a custom Cache Valley protest song
Let's create a Cache Valley song!
Calling all creative song-writer and musicians
Creative protesters in Washington DC wrote new lyrics for the "This land is our land" song
We tried to copy down a lot of their new lyrics. They are from the start of the video below.
If a group of self-organizing folks were able to fix this up and develop our own Cache Valley version, it would be fun to sing it at a future event.
Maybe we could develop weekend rallies that focus mostly on signing songs together. What do you think?
The lyrics would need to be posted online for people to pull up on their phones
This land is my land, This land is your land
From California to the New York island
We are the people, We must be heard now
This land was made for you and me
Now Trump is ruling, Like a dictator
No one to stop him, Not even Congress
We are the people, We must be heard now
This land was made for you and me
Where are the Republicans, Who love their country?
Who use their voices, to do what’s right now?
We are the people, We must be heard now
This land was made for you and me
We must be heard now, We must show courage
This land was made for you and me
Let’s band together, To save our nation
It’s democratic, Not Oligarchic
Let’s get together, To save our nation
This land was made for you and me
You must be heard now, You must have courage
Let’s be together, To save the nation
Hands off our money, Because we earned them
Through paying taxes, What does it take now?
To fix the problem
No one to stop them, Not even Congress
We are the people, We must be heard now
Will do a strike now, To show the nation
That we are serious
This land was made for you and me
Let’s do what’s right now~
Please email WethepeopleCV@gmail.com if you have developed better lyrics and/or are willing to lead chants or songs at a future event.
THANKS for helping out.
Let's rise up on this emergency to save our democracy, freedoms, institutions, benefits, programs, funding for science, and soooooo much more.
From the redwood forest, to the
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