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Ben Natan
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Dissident scum. Union stooge. Actor, of course.
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McCarthyism and its consequences were a disaster for society. The American people want socialism. They just don’t want it to be called that.

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This part stood out to me in Trump's Fox town hall. A single mom who was visibly distressed asked about the cost of raising children, and here's Trump's response in full.

Q: Hi, my name is Rachel S., here from Cumming, Ga. I'm a single mom to two kids here, and just in 3.5 years my child tax credit has decreased by 80% almost. Daycare for the lowest amount is roughly $1,400 a month for one child here. Last year I broke my neck. I almost lost — TRUMP: You have a beautiful voice, by the way. Q: Thank you so much. I'm having a panic attack right now. But last year I had broken my neck, and I tried applying for any kind of assistance and was denied because I did not make less than $700 a month. And I'm shaking like a freaking leaf. I cannot stop. So I could not afford daycare. I obviously was having to go through physical therapy and a lot of issues, and I’m still having issues to this day. But what kind of realistic changes do you think you can provide single parents, married parents, any kind of parent to just simply afford children in today's world with the way things are?
TRUMP: It’s not fair. You never heard of Ivanka, right? Ivanka. My daughter drove me crazy on this. We had the simplest, most beautiful tax — you know, I gave you the largest tax cuts in the history of our country, OK, larger than the Reagan cuts, larger — but my daughter Ivanka, she said, “Dad, we have to do tax credits for women,” you know, for the child tax credits. She was driving me crazy. Then I did it and I got it just about done. “Dad, you’ve got to double it up.” I said, “Ivanka!” It was actually more complicated than the entire bill, but I got it done, and what we’re going to do and I’m going to — because I understand exactly what you’re saying. We’re going to readjust things so that it’s fair to everybody, ‘cause it’s really not fair to everybody. But we have a lot, and we’re going up higher, but we’re also going to readjust because you have to make some readjustments. It’s unfair to some people and we’re not going to have that. But she was the one that got it started. You know, those were our credits, those were not the Democrat credits. A lot of Republicans said rightfully, don’t do it because we’ll never get credit for that. You know, we’re not known for that. But the truth is, I wanted to put it all in the form of the tax cuts. So I got the maximum tax cut, but we’re also bringing down the taxes for companies and for people. We’re bringing it down to 15% and for companies, only if you make your product, build your product in the USA. Otherwise you don't get it.
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Ben Natan
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Dissident scum. Union stooge. Actor, of course.
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