The 2024 budget was only $238 billion. That’s more money for the wealthy if Musk and donald gets their way.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Trump loves the uneducated.
Theres a reason why all the richest people in America were front row at the inauguration
What do you expect? Conservatives are the stupidest and most easily manipulated sacks of shit on the planet. Decades of sabotaging public education in this country handed the Republican Party an electorate overflowing with the most hypercredulous, fear-driven morons the world has ever seen. I’m sure their voters would be very upset about all of this if they could read.
Schools are simply not making enough profit and these kids are gonna have to pay up if they want an education. Just like the founding fathers wanted it, right?
Conservatives need to keep their voters as stupid and uneducated as possible. It’s working. These maga morons think they rule the country when in reality they are a bunch of dumb suckers.
The USA has quickly becoming one of the worst country in the world :(.
China is whooping our asses on every level.
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana will feel it the most. He really loves his base 🖖🏽
Basically thats the plan…. gut the services that the lower and middle classes rely on, and make us pay more for them so that the ultrawealthy can hoard wealth and pay nothing.
“only $238 billion”…
If that’s not proof alone that federal government spending has gotten out of hand, I don’t know what is.
For those of you that don’t realize this is why they’re slashing all these government programs. Wake up. All the money they “save” will be redistributed to the Uber wealthy in the form of tax cuts. Because ya know, they need MORE money.
A 15% corporate tax would bring more companies to the US and increase employment.
I wish posts like this had the supporting links to these stats. I’ve been having to double check so much shit recently
What does the DOE budget have to do with shutting it down? The whole reason for shutting it down is so that money can go straight to the states for education before $700-$800 million are skimmed off by career bureaucrats.
Think about how crazy it is to have a department that costs $268 BN a year where not a single person is an instructor in a classroom.
How crazy it is to spend $268BN a year on a department that has shown consistent, repeated marked decline in reading and math proficiency since it’s inception.
Dismantling beauocratic government waste doesn’t mean being anti education. Imagine what local school districts could do with that money and the flexibility to teach their students the way they need to be provided instruction. That’s an extra $4900 per student. Near doubling resources per student in some locations.
While they can not actually profit off this, I am pissed about doe getting cut and the cooperate tax cuts.
I’ve been homeschooling a year already, so at this moment this does not affect us unless they start getting crazy with homeschool, our state just recently passed a bill for defunding public education so I’m sure the impacts are going to start being felt here extremely hard the next school year. Our state is already low in education ranking. I am fearful for all of the kids in our family, their friends, and every other kid in our school systems.
I’m fearful of what education will become, I’m fearful of how hard it may be to undo these damages and how much resistance there will be.
A lower corporate tax would be a great help to people with small companies too. That corporate tax rate hurts when you’re not a mega corporation.
Heres a fun fact… Closing the department of education, keeping the same budget would be a huge increase in spending to actual schools. No need to maintain the DOE buildings, or pay the 4400 people to work from home. Every state already has a DOE, liberals act like the DOE isnt just 46 years old, people were educated before the department and will be after. Think of it as cutting 4400 middle men with their hands out.
0.8% of GDP is kind of a lot of money.
Everyone could be 0.8% richer on average by getting rid of this department.
Another way to think of it: is the Department of Education increasing our GDP by more than 0.8% compounded per year? Probably not.
238 billion for an agency that has watched the gradual decline of education since its formation?
And you’re defending their existence?
You aren’t serious….
So, sounds like there are more departments to dismantle.
I’ve been yelling about this since the first pages of Project 2025 were leaked. The neocons are engineering the next generation of working poor. You don’t have to reach very far to see it. It all starts with abortion restrictions.
1. Poor women (particularly poor black women) are far more likely to seek abortion care. Poor people raise poor children. The poverty trap is real.
2. Defunding the department of education means that poor (mostly black/brown communities …. See above) will have even LESS access to education than they already do. Uneducated folks tend to fall into shitty low wage jobs.
3. Several red states (particularly in the south east …. You know …. Where poor black folks live) have loosened child labor laws to allow teenagers to work in saw mills, meat packing facilities, etc. $12 per hour probably seems like a lot of money at 17 ….. why even bother finishing high school (assuming it’s still open)?
Rinse and repeat for 10-15 years and *viola* tens of thousands of poor, uneducated people who don’t have any other choice but to go to work themselves to death for space wages. But don’t worry – looks like Trump’s minions are going after OSHA now too, so these workers will probably get killed on the job looooong before they’re old enough to retire.
“Only” 238 billion… are you aware education is mostly funded by the State and local governments? And their budgets combined is nearly 800 billion spent in education? People have completely lost concept of how much money is worth, and what reasonable spending is.
USA spends more money in education per student than Canada does, and much more than Japan and other similarly first world countries.
Our horrible results have nothing to do with lack of funding.
Shouldn’t be any corporate tax in the first place.
Why continue funding a program where the results (reading comprehension/math efficiency/basic grammar) have been declining?
I know this is hard from some, but remember what ‘Ol Barrack used to say, “Change we can believe in”
Lmaooooooo. Public school is basically daycare. Tired of paying for kids to not learn anything valuable. But the fight videos are pretty good, so that’ll be a shame to miss
Twisted is how the Department of Education can fail at educating our kids for decades despite a trillion in funding over the years. We are graduating kids that can’t read anywhere near grade level. We have failed our children.
Think about how twisted that is.
The department of education has been a scam from the very beginning. Promises made and never kept. Children continuing to fail. School boards acting like HOAs. I was there when it was started. Education needs to go back to the states.
Are you mad they cutting taxes or are you mad people shop there and their money goes to China?
I’d honestly say bringing the tax rate to 15% would probably increase the tax take from the hundred largest companies as they would be incentivised to NOT use tax loop holes through Ireland and the Netherlands etc. which they’re all doing….
I say this as a person who believes wealth inequality is one of the biggest issues of our time.
I guess I don’t understand we haven’t had a budget in years.
Didn’t he ask GOP leaders to end tax perks for Billionaire sports team owners and Hedge funds to cover tax cuts with the Middle Class?
This was the plan all along. It’s why all the richest tech execs in the world were all at his inauguration.