A Big Beautiful Poison Bill

Welcome once again, my dear readers, to the asylum. I am sad to say things are no less crazy now than they have been for the last couple of years. It does seem the courts have finally and correctly stopped Trump’s unilateral tariffing. As I pointed out a few weeks ago, issuing tariffs is not a power of the executive (here). I was saddened by the “Big Beautiful Budget Bills” passing of the house. Let us hope it doesn’t pass the Senate.

There are some excellent things in the bill that absolutely will be great for the working middle class and even the lower class. Unfortunately, candy-coating shit doesn’t change the fact that it is shit. Sadly, like with so many other things, the parasitic political class is using the few good things as talking points to gain the support of stupid, rabid, and uninformed people.

I completely support the requirements for the able-bodied to work to receive food stamps, making them more of a hand up, not hand out. I think cutting any taxes on anything is a good idea. So, no tax on social security, overtime, tips, and whatever else are all great things (here). The new verification requirements on Medicare are also a good thing. Current estimates are between 60-100 Billion dollars a year are lost due to Medicare fraud, a large portion being money paid to ineligible recipients (here and here). Stricter scrutiny of applications and qualification investigations are a good idea.

The problem comes in with the fact that the bill doesn’t cut anything but expands, unnecessarily, a ton of things. Trump has also chosen to fight with people like Thomas Massie and Rand Paul who he should be in lock step with. This was the chance to abolish the federal department of education as a failed experiment, codifying into law all the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts,