Trump is kicking 700,000 hungry people off nutrition assistance. But the holiday spirit is

[Uncle Joe]

Link to tweet

Trump's holiday menu: handouts for billionaires, hunger for the poor

When it comes to billionaires benefiting from the generosity of the American taxpayer, the holiday spirit is alive year-round. Taxpayers paid out $115m to Donald Trump so he could play golf at his own resorts.

And Amazon didn’t just pay zero in federal taxes on $11bn in profits – taxpayers gifted the corporation $129,000,000 in rebates. That’s enough to pay for CEO Jeff Bezos’s three apartments in Manhattan, including a penthouse, that cost him $80m.

And what about government generosity for those who actually need help? Tax dollars are somehow much harder to come by when they’re not going to handouts for the rich. The average person in poverty, struggling to put food on the table, gets about $134 a month in nutrition assistance.

Now, just in time for the holidays, Trump has finalized the first of three policies that will make this disparity even more obscene. Two years after passing a $1.5tn tax giveaway to the wealthiest Americans and large corporations, the Trump administration plans to strip 3.7 million people of their nutrition benefits.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/24/food-stamps-billionaires-nutrition-assistance-bernie-sanders-rashida-tlaib

[Botany]

1. As Trump spends $110 million golf.

Trump Golf Costs Top $110 Million —

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-obama-golf_n_5d45c72de4b0acb57fcd4eb8

More than 1/2 a million on golf cart rentals alone ... and that money goes to Donny Trump's
golf courses.

[George II]

2. Here's a good way to help the hungry:

http://www.ctfoodbank.org/about-us/hunger-in-connecticut/

A $10 donation can feed an adult for a whole week.

[JudyM]

3. Some may find Bernie's consistent messaging uninteresting but it points to an ever increasing

problem with how our democracy is malfunctioning and bears continuous repeating.

Kudos to him for pointing it out again at a time when people’s hearts may be more open to compassion.

[myohmy2]

4. sad and shameful...

...Bernie's been consistently against hunger in America for a long time...

...but Bernie's only one person, he needs partners, he can't do it by himself, he needs US...

…Bernie needs US, and now he has US at his back...

...as Senator he's only 1 of 100...

...as President he'll be 1 of 1, numero uno, ready and willing to kick hunger's ass from day one, like no other...

...keep the faith, we can do it...

[Joe941]

5. Bernie nailed it. This is true leadership people!