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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Carpian ✶🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trump a vacuous moron
Date: 03/03/25 11:29 AM
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Unfortunately, Neville Trump is incredibly ignorant. He actually thinks cutting IRS employees will save money.

Even Trump isn't dumb enough to think that. What he does know is that cutting IRS employees, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, purging "disloyal" employees (i.e. those who might, say, not respond to a highly questionable email from DOGE asking them to report what they did last week), etc, etc--we all know what's going on--will lead to fewer watchdogs, whistleblowers and enforcement mechanisms to make it easier for corruption to occur. And guess who gets their pockets lined by that, and who gets fleeced?

Eliminating fraud is a smokescreen. What Trump and his cronies are actually doing is making it easier for fraud to occur. Those who would monitor and what goes on are being eliminated, leaving only those--and they are obviously many--who will believe anything Trump says and think he is actually looking out for them.
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