Letter to the Editor: Trump's Budget Bill Is Plutocracy in Action

Letter: Republican budget bill doesn’t make sense

Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com How does this make sense? While President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress want to hand out trillions in tax cuts to billionaires, they plan to pay for them with  takeaways from kids, seniors, farmers, small business owners, veterans, and rural Americans. There have also been proposed cuts to school lunch programs, cu…

Letter to the Editor: Trump's budget bill is plutocracy in action

To the Editor: As Republicans in Congress prepare to pass Trump’s budget bill and permanently extend the tax breaks he bestowed upon the wealthiest corporations and billionaires in 2017, it is worth noting these recent findings of the Institute of…

Krugman: It's 'The Attack Of The Sadistic Zombies'

Award winning economist Paul Krugman breaks down the incredibly cruel budget Republicans are trying to pass and the damage it's going to do to the most vulnerable in our country. As we already discussed here, the bill would slash not just Medicaid and SNAP benefits, but also $500 billion from Medicare. And as Krugman wrote in his Substack post, the cruelty is the point: Republicans in Congress, taking their marching orders from Donald Trump, are…

Lawrence: The Trump-Republican budget bill is the work of 'sadistic zombies'

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how Donald Trump and Republicans are trying to take health care away from millions by cutting Medicaid and Medicare to pass the “cruelest budget bill ever passed in American history” as he accepts a jet from Qatar in “Donald Trump’s Marie Antoinette moment of obliviousness to the suffering he is causing.”

Trump’s Budget Plan Boom for the Wealthy

' ... one more sham that ultimately favors the wealthiest ...'

Letter | Trump voters should have known what they were getting

Dear Editor: Voters were warned.