More Money in Your Pocket
By Sen. John Thune
On February 24, President Trump delivered his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. The president laid out a bright vision for the future, made possible in no small part by what he and Republicans in Congress accomplished this past year. In just one year, we’ve made progress toward a safer, stronger, and more prosperous America. And as the American people heard from the president, we’re just getting started.
Our work began with putting more money in Americans’ pockets, which we did with the Working Families Tax Cuts. Thanks to Republicans’ landmark bill, hardworking South Dakotans can benefit from permanently lower tax rates, a bigger standard deduction, and a bigger child tax credit – all of which are permanent. Then there’s no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and a bonus deduction for senior citizens living on a fixed income. All told, this tax relief means bigger refunds this tax season and lower tax bills in the years ahead.
Republicans didn’t stop with tax relief though. This landmark legislation also repealed the Biden-era natural gas tax and took steps to unleash American energy production and ensure that Americans have a reliable energy supply. And we included measures to modernize the farm safety net for farmers and ranchers in South Dakota and around the country.
In another piece of legislation, we prioritized measures that make prescriptions less expensive by increasing the transparency of pharmacy benefit managers and ensuring they pass savings on to patients at the pharmacy counter. And in the coming days, the Senate will act on another bill to make the dream of homeownership more affordable and accessible for everyday Americans.
In addition to addressing affordability, Republicans have also made significant strides toward strengthening American security. That started with securing the southern border, and the Working Families Tax Cuts included funding to ensure those gains can be maintained for the long term. It also made a major investment in rebuilding our military, ensuring America’s men and women in uniform have what they need to counter today’s threats and tomorrow’s.
Americans went through a lot under President Biden: from a historic inflation crisis to the worst border crisis on record. On top of that, hardworking people were facing the prospect of a massive tax hike in 2026 – a tax hike that never came because Republicans acted to prevent it.
When it comes to tackling affordability and making America safer and stronger, Republicans don’t just talk, we act. We’re putting more money in Americans’ pockets and working hard to make life affordable for American families.
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Walmart hamburger $8.00 a pound Head of lettuce $2.50 etc, etc Thune trying to blow smoke up our butts He is a feckless , brown nosing shill for Trump
Apparently you do not understand the relationship between the natural gas taxes and the price of your food.
AI can fill you in on all the ways natural gas is taxed & how it is where propane comes from, and from there you can possibly figure out that propane has something to do with where your food comes from.
Give it a try.
Are you relying on AI and large language models for factual information?
The “Biden Natural Gas Tax” was specifically a tax on methane emissions designed to reduce both production and consumption of natural gas. Democrats are so dumb they think if propane costs more the farmers will use less of it.
But if you reduce the supply of something people actually need you drive the price up. It requires less capital to just pay more for propane than to switch your operation to wind and solar power. So propane prices went up. And now your food costs more.
Maybe you should drag your ass out to a farm and see how it all works.
Just another example how democrats screw up everything they touch.
Is that why every republican president in my lifetime put us into a recession?
And started a war in the middle east…
A war that was started after 9/11. Let’s see how did we get there? Oh that’s right, Bill Clinton could have prevented that one by have Bin Laden handed over to us but what did Slick do? He turned down the offer not once, not twice, not three times, not four times, but five times Slick Willie turned down the offer of several mideast countries to hand over Bin Laden.
Convenient that you ignore the role the preceding dumassocrat administration had in that scenario but that’s OK, we have come to expect this.
And convenient you ignore history, which is expected from a dumbass who can only use middle school insults.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party
See, now I think this is a bot. It didnt even respond to my question and had a clearly canned response waiting.
The money from the natural gas tax was levied to cover methane mitigation efforts. Same with carbon tax proposals. Market price is always controlled by the suppliers and the size of the supply. Users should chip in on the mitigation.
if you think 8 dollar hamburger is high try raising it yourself
I remember a bunch of red hat sissies crying about egg prices while they were easily keeping their homes, new trucks and Harley payments current in 2024. Hush up.
Don’t worry, any money you think you had will just go over to Iran, just like the last republican administration, with Iraq. We need a third party!
No. Democrats need to get mad, get that laser focus and Dave Ramsey’s gazelle intensity. They need to dismantle the MAGA propaganda machine with the same ruthless completeness that William T Sherman showed to the Confederacy. I think they can do it.
Republicans in the last century constantly said that Democrats were a huge left wing communist conspiracy. Republicans had to do that because they were incompetent while Democrats were competent in journalism, politics and democracy. They LOOKED organized compared to the GOP. Now they NEED to organize a bit more intentionally.
No Third Party!! That’s almost as stupid as the notion that we need to annex Canada, or “Let Trump Be Trump.”
Orwell wrote in his famous novel 1984 ‘If there is hope, it lies in the proles”, and I feel this resonates today. The proles is an archaic term for the working-class poor, and the working-class poor have been the target of MAGA, and that to which they have embraced with open arms. They have been taught that anyone informing them of their own best interests, and how that may not lie with the narrative coming from the leaders, is considered “talking down to them” and “democrat elitists”. An entire generation has been convinced that one party is bad, regardless of the outcome (stereotyping); they live off a narrative instead of reality, while their reality crumbles. We have banned the education system from teaching how stereotyping is bad and called it DEI. I don’t know what the options are with so many people who are unable to reason what is in their best interests, but I don’t think one can dismantle the MAGA propaganda in any short order, especially when they are willing to eat a sh!t sandwich, and say it is good, as long as their leader tells them it is good.
It was actually the fake book by Emmanuel Goldstein about the revolt against Big Brother that has that false quote. Through his characters, O’Brien elegantly explains how the proles will never rise up or unite, in Oceania the proles are too distracted drunk dumb and dissipated to care. O’Brien illustrates through police brutality and Smiths inescapable torture, that Big Brother and the Inner Party can’t be beaten by the Outer Party, since there will be no prole alliance.
The Outer Party will have to suffer onward, ever watched by their home tech, and screened for signs of disloyalty, and killed.
* !! * That moment you realize the only thing Orwell got wrong was in not calling the book “2024.”
Correction – the quote is written by Smith in his diary at the start of 1984. Goldsteins book is an echo chamber and trap for him through this erroneous hope.
ALSO: you mount a big pushback effort at a time like THIS – when the people you want to reach are having their mental complacency disturbed by a huge disruption, like Trump starting a war when they voted on his promise to stay out of all wars, or like Trump obscenely enriching himself and his family via the power they handed him to halt corruption. You gotta fight the war you have, not the one you’d rather have.
We’ve been at was with Iran since 1978. No one has been willing to put an end to it, until now.
*1979*
No, we haven’t been in a state of open active combat against Iran since their Revolution. We were even making inroads and shifting their Overton Window to be more western aligned until Trump threw a hissyfit his first term. Which then resulted in Iranians being skeptical of how trustworthy the West is, which got us here.
When they deposed a shah installed by Britain, Iran declared a jihad against the west. But they had a special hate for England, a hate for Israel and a hate for us as their ally. This BS about Trump “finishing” a war is nonsense.
And why did they depose the Shah? Certainly they weren’t peeved that their democratically elected President had been overthrown by the British and the CIA for questioning how much British oil companies were screwing Iran over in the 1950s? And didn’t the Shah hire Mossad agents to torture those opposed by him?
All of these are good questions. Carter sharing his Christian witness with Islamic diplomats wasn’t very smooth either.
This has to be the laziest, most expansive use of the word “war” that I’ve seen in a long time.