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As the old refrain goes, “Nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” However, for the corporations and the wealthy, there is no certainty about paying taxes at all. In fact, in the United States, evading taxes has become as simple as creating a shell company in Bermuda.
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There's zero surprise in reading the title of this post. It's right on brand for Trump and Republicans to seek to destroy the Environmental Protection Agency. The fiscal year 2021 budget proposed in February 2020 is no different.
Trump's proposed budget for fiscal 2021 calls for significant reductions to environmental programs at federal agencies, including a 26 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Trump’s budget would eliminate 50 EPA programs and impose massive cuts to research and development....
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The 2021 version of the Budget Cuts Series continues with another post that is utterly unbelievable. Cutting education funding for children should make these people unelectable. It seems no one is aware of it though and it'll stay that way with this sort of egregious action never showing up on televised news media. That's why it's here on Smart Dissent.
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Republicans are consistent on following the orders of the gun and ammunition lobby. In early March 2020, the Trump administration loosened rules around small arms exports.
The Trump administration has implemented new export rules for American small arms, ammunition, and gun parts — a major victory for the American gun industry, which has lobbied for the change for more than a decade.
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In 2018, health experts warned Trump: putting tariffs on medical products would hurt US preparedness for pandemics. He did it anyway.
Now, Trump's tariffs are contributing to shortages at the time of a national health crisis.
An alarming unintended consequence of Trump’s misguided trade war with China has suddenly threatened to cripple the US fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration’s tariffs on Chinese medical products may contribute to shortages and higher costs of vital equipment at a time of nationwide health crisis.