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    1. Stephen Miller claimed this week that the federal budget could be balanced simply by cutting payments to ineligible recipients — and experts, economists, and legal analysts wasted no time calling it out as fantasy.

      “Based on what I’ve heard, we could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them,” Miller said.

      The response was swift and brutal.

    2. Kindof ironic that he’s taken up Joe Bidens fashion sense… That’s a signature Joe Biden look.

    3. Miller will ironically probably advocate something like this. And someone will asked me why it’s ironic.

      By 1938, the Nazi regime was facing a severe financial crisis. Rearmament was costing far more than the government collected in taxes, and Germany was critically low on foreign currency needed to buy raw materials (like rubber and oil) from abroad. The organized theft of Jewish wealth served as a stopgap measure to keep the state solvent.
      – Significant Revenue: In the 1938–1939 national budget, approximately 5% of total revenue came directly from wealth confiscated from Jews.
      – The “Atonement Tax”: Following the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, the regime imposed a collective fine of 1.12 billion Reichsmarks on the Jewish community. This massive sum was immediately funneled into the rearmament budget.
      – The “Reich Flight Tax”: Jews fleeing Germany were forced to pay a 25% tax on their assets (in addition to unfavorable exchange rates that left them with pennies on the dollar). This tax raised roughly 342 million Reichsmarks in 1938 alone, providing the government with vital foreign currency to purchase military supplies.

    4. mustardnight on

      Doesn’t matter, with the gerrymandering going on Republicans are gonna win in a landslide. None of this matters. It’s what Americans want.

    5. huskeylovealways on

      Send this ghoul to jail. Vote Blue from the top of the ballot to the bottom

    6. Ghoul! There needs to be a legal tribunal where this ghoul and the other ghouls, elongated musky, and the current cabinet are all tried. If not, this will happen again.

    7. >’He thinks Americans are idiots’

      77 million Americans voted for Trump. Make of that what you will.

    8. Not_a_fan_of_me on

      We are idiots. All the info about how horrid this administration would be was out there. All their plans, their closet platform (project 2025), court records and convictions. Yet they still won.

    9. It doesn’t take an expert to see that Stephen Miller is wrong about something. That’s been his standard operating procedure his whole career. And yes millions of idiots soak it up.

    10. throwaway007676 on

      Americans ARE idiots, look at the people who got voted in to run the place.

    11. alpharaptor1 on

      He thinks everybody is dumber than he is. The problem is that he’s also pretty fucking dumb.

    12. No he’s just a fascist who doesn’t understand how reality works. He actually believes that we would have a surplus if the dirty immigrants just got off our land.