Note: when the bragging point is not about specifics on what your spending the #budget on, but on the number of zeroes in the budget, I guarantee you won't be #spending in a wise or cost-conscious manner.
It's like being asked what you're looking for in a new house and replying "It should cost a million dollars."
#Trump #defense #doge #boondoggle
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/hegseth-trump-1-trillion-defense-budget-00007147
The #stock market is rallying hard with the "90 day #tariff pause". But how come the market is ignoring the 125% #China tariff? Don't they realize that's probably the worst one for the middle class/low income consumer, and when #spending abruptly slows because of high prices, the rest of the #economy will tank anyway?
The #House to vote on the #Senate #budget resolution
#Republicans scheduled a vote for Wednesday evening, but they were still at least a dozen votes short of a majority for their fiscal blueprint.
A number of anti-#spending #HouseRepublicans said they planned to defy #Trump & oppose the measure, arguing it would add too much to the nation’s #debt.
#USpol #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/house-budget-vote-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=B59CDB44-1D3F-4730-A4FB-2D71693A4D02
Questions and an idea for my #USAnian friends...
Your ~~feral~~ federal government is currently being commandeered by an executive that believes that it can rewrite the U.S. constitution via executive orders. One of the primary techniques they are using is usurping the congress's "power of the purse", by either refusing to spend congressionally-allocated funds, or by spending those funds on things other than congress allocated them for.
If the executive branch thinks it's fine to ignore your constitution and screw taxpayers with tax dollars, then...
1) Most of the feds' tax income comes from income tax and various #employment taxes.
2) Employers collect these taxes and remit them to the government.
3) Q: exactly *who* do they remit them to? Based on history, I would think this would be a state agency, who would keep the state/municipal portion and remit the rest to the federal government. Is this correct?
4) "Blue" states are, in general, net payers of tax dollars vs. federal services received.
5) "Red" states are, in general, the opposite - they receive more in federal services / support than they remit in taxes.
So, depending on the answer to (3), my #idea is: why don't blue states stop remitting funds to the federal #government? Don't steal it, just hold it in trust until the feds can be made to follow the law correctly.
I would think this would hurt the feds, a *lot*.
#us #farm #usa #farming #equipment #manufacturing #trump #tariffs #american #tax #consumer #spending #tax #food #groceries #grocery #families #household #wi #wisconsin #usgov #uspol #politics #finance #ag #agriculture #harvesters #excavators #canada #trade
Retaliatory tariffs target Wisconsin’s top industries
https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2025/03/21/retaliatory-tariffs-target-wisconsins-top-industries/
Younger Americans don't have enough saved to cover a single month of spending, showcasing their vulnerability should the economy head into a downturn. Members of #GenZ spending twice the amount they had in savings on average in February. The ratio has increased in the past 2 yrs, and is much higher than for other generations...they tend to spend a bigger share of their incomes on necessities including #rent and #utilities. https://fortune.com/2025/03/14/gen-z-americans-dont-have-enough-saved-to-cover-a-single-month-of-spending/ #economy #economics #stockmarket #spending
Excerpt from the New York Times article: "ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities"
#Trump #ICE #Guantánamo #Migrants #Policy #HumanRights #Government #Spending
And the English media complain about Ferries! At least we need the ferries, those aircraft carriers, especially given the US behaviour are a waste of ocean.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/10/tanks-warships-uk-defence-billions-waste
Morten Morland @mortenmorland on #KeirStarmer #RachelReeves #Borrowing #Spending @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
An 'old story' and although painful it has some amusement
'We did not realise that our HSBC debit card had somehow been linked to her iPhone and had no idea that she could spend so easily. She was not aware that the money she was spending was real money.
*somehow* linked - you did it you moron.
“UK Taxpayers’ Cash Is Funding an Arms Firm Whose Biggest Shareholder Is Now Bankrolling Nigel Farage’s Reform UK”
by Anna Orwin Algeo and Iain Overton in Byline Times @BylineTimes @UKLabour
“The UK Government’s big increase in defence spending will likely hugely benefit [Far Right] Reform UK’s biggest donor”
#DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest #Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week - The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/doge-spending-cuts-changed.html #trump #cuts #lies #government #spending #savings #budget
Director claims #BBC 'push false narrative' amid Traitors staffing row
The broadcaster's level of Scottish off-screen talent working on the hit TV series has been called “unacceptably low” by director and producer Peter Strachan, who said it has been a “conscious decision” to overlook Scots in favour of London-based worker
BBC #lying to hide their unwillingness to invest in #Scottish broadcasting as they are obliged by law to do. I apologise for the image.
The #Trump pauses on #spending aren't just deadly, "they are actually the most lawless, brazen, #unconstitutional actions that this administration has yet taken, and if sanctioned by a conservative Supreme Court, they would amount to a full disbanding of our system of government." https://prospect.org/politics/2025-01-28-trumps-most-lawless-action-yet/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump%20s%20Lawbreaking%20Also%20Aimed%20at%20Workers&utm_campaign=20250128%20Meyerson%20on%20TAP
My wife and I sat down to plan out February's budget today. I've been priming Actual Budget with our categories and spending for January so we'd have something to talk about and a view of our spending. Not only did she find the interface super intuitive but liked the concept of envelope budgeting on the big screen and how we could plan ahead for travel and summer camps for the kids by saving incrementally every month. Highly recommend!
Not a promoted post, I actually love Actual Budget as a human being.
The Best Time to Buy Almost Everything — Month by Month
Here's how to maximize your spending throughout the year.
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/the-best-time-to-buy-almost-everything-month-by-month/ #Money #Spending #Shopping #Deals
11 Things That Actually Got a Lot Cheaper in 2024
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/how-to-safely-lock-in-high-rate-for-the-next-three-years/ #Money #Spending #Finance #Economy
