clatterbane:

UK is only major economy to put up taxes during cost-of-living crisis, research finds

r/unitedkingdom - UK is only major economy to put up taxes during cost-of-living crisis, research finds

Indeed.

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UK is only major economy to put up taxes during cost-of-living crisis, research finds

The tax rise is for the poorest people not the richest, obviously. Tories can’t be pissing off any of those Russian oligarch friends. Also MPs just got a £2000 pay rise because of course.

MPs handed £2,000 pay rise on same day families are hit with double cost of living blow

You know things are bad if the Telegraph is criticising the government.

Anxiety

Hello. This is a comic I drew last year, but am posting this year. Happy 2022! Lets, you know, hope things get better.

association-of-freed-people:

With Plenty Of GOP Help, Senate Shoots Down Rand Paul’s Balanced-Budget Resolution | ZeroHedge

We’re $31 trillion dollars in debt with $170 trillion in medicare, social security, and federal and va retirement obligations we can’t pay for and we can’t even get Republicans on board with cutting 6 pennies out of ever federal dollar spent?

You won’t be surprised to learn Cornyn, Graham, and McConnell and 14 others voted against Paul’s bill. Equally as unsurprising? Not a single democrat voted to rein in spending. I’m old enough to remember when Republicans were fiscal conservatives. Modern Republicans have turned into 70’s democrats and, God help us, democrats have turned into red eyed communists.

Here’s an important tidbit in case you missed it.

Under the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest budgetary baseline, interest payments on the debt are expected to triple between now and 2032. 

Last year the interest payments on our $30 trillion national debt totaled $562 billion. I wonder what could we do with $562 billion? In 10 years, assuming not one new red cent is added to our national debt - I know, I know, I’m laughing too - the interest payments on the national debt will be $1.7 trillion.

That would make just our INTEREST payments more than the GDP of Italy, Canada, Russia, South Korea, Australia, Spain, Mexico or Indonesia. The interest would be more than the GDP of the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden COMBINED.

Something needs to change, and change yesterday. Here are the numbers again. Do the thing and make some noise.

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