A Budget Reconciliation Bill Based on Cruelty - The Berkshire Edge

A budget reconciliation bill based on cruelty - The Berkshire Edge

To the editor: The House budget reconciliation bill, also known as “One Big Beautiful Bill,” recently passed by one vote. It is a disturbing and morally reprehensible bill which transfers wealth to billionaires at the expense of the most needy. While millionaires will get an average tax cut of $100,000 a year under this plan, families earning under $200,000 will, over time, pay more in taxes or get no tax cut at all. At a time of already increas…

West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy: Big Beautiful Bill’s Tax Cuts Overwhelmingly Favor the Wealthiest in West Virginia Even Before Accounting for Tariffs and Benefit Cuts

Earlier this month the U.S. House of Representatives passed a major new tax and spending bill that not only represents the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history, taking away SNAP and Medicaid benefits from millions of recipients including tens of thousands in West Virginia, but also includes tax provisions that would overwhelmingly favor the richest taxpayers in the state. For working-class West Virginians, the tax cuts in the House bill …