One GOP proposal takes aim squarely at parents raising children on their own by eliminating the “head of household” filing status to reap some $200B more in taxes over a decade from single parents and other adults caring for dependents on their own.

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    So increase prices on the poor and then cut their benefits. Frankly, I’m here for it. Quickest way to turn your blue collar base against you is to make sure that they go hungry. Go on Trump. Give them a reason to write “Let them eat cake” in your blood.

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      This might work if all major news networks and social media weren’t propaganda machines of the maga regime. The administration will blame immigrants or democrats or trans people for every hardship that republican voters experience.

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      More likely outcome - they’ll use this to enrage the base, point them at POC, LGBTQ, non-xtians, liberals, etc…and promise them a pardon.