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Tree Lady

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15. The problem is we will be bankrupt

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2025, 12:39 AM

8 hrs ago

And putting back in all the agencies that it took hundreds of years to slowly build up with taxes and laws no one will vote to raise taxes high enough to bring everything back.

Even if we want to in another 3 + years we will all be struggling financially.

I think the best we can do if we ever get congress and senate back along with president is to tax the hell out of rich people to make up for as much as we can.

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How long will it take to deMAGAfy the government after he's gone? [View all] Stinky The Clown 9 hrs ago OP

We are looking at the Second Great Reconstruction. WheelWalker 9 hrs ago #1

Hopefully it will go better than the first reconstruction choie 8 hrs ago #12

The next president will have to be willing to overtly defy court orders from Trump-judges Justice Brandeis 9 hrs ago #2

It's going to have to take a massive, dramatic change in society. Initech 9 hrs ago #3

I question if it's possible. Where is the money now to put back into budgets? Melon 9 hrs ago #4

Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Ellison stole it all. Initech 8 hrs ago #16

It took FDR 3 full terms and a major war to correct the RW Great Depression... Wounded Bear 9 hrs ago #5

The kakistocratic toadies markodochartaigh 9 hrs ago #6

Optimistically? Decades. At the very least. Orrex 9 hrs ago #7

Probably decades, as the USSC is a lifetime appointment sakabatou 9 hrs ago #8

It will never happen. The US has been cultivating these folks for 45 years. They are walkingman 9 hrs ago #9

A century or two. sinkingfeeling 9 hrs ago #10

The stench of his maladminstration, and B.See 8 hrs ago #11

Not until they all die out. choie 8 hrs ago #13

The deliberate destruction of all our federal infrastructure won't be reversed in my lifetime... Hekate 8 hrs ago #14

The problem is we will be bankrupt Tree Lady 8 hrs ago #15

I am concerned how we are going to do that in the first place at this point LyfeTimeDem 8 hrs ago #17

I agree. I think we are screwed Wifes husband 7 hrs ago #18

Not possible. The U.S. experiment failed. Time to come up with something new. Blasphemer 7 hrs ago #19