# Trump speech live 01/08/2019: follow-along thread.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-speech-live-01-08-2019-follow-along-thread/827439>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-speech-live-01-08-2019-follow-along-thread/827439 "2019-01-09T01:21:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-speech-live-01-08-2019-follow-along-thread/827439/321 "2019-01-14T14:20:29Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> $1 is too much. Especially given the $1.5 trillion of tax-giveaways to the billionaires you guys did a year ago.
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> As I asked, why couldn’t your team be bothered to deduct this money from the tax scam and give Zuckerburg, Buffet, et all $1.495 trillion?

[Trump tax cut to cost Americans 105x more than the wall budget _than projected_.](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-14/trump-tax-cut-turns-out-both-better-and-worse)

Effectively, the cost of the tax heist is more than $2 trillion, not just $1.5 trillion. The _difference_ is enough to fund 105 wall budget requests.

But Dickta would prefer to harm 800,000 people than dare give billionaires only $1.95 trillion of debt-engorged stolen public funds than $2 trillion of debt-engorged stolen public funds.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-speech-live-01-08-2019-follow-along-thread/827439/322 "2019-01-14T15:15:29Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> [Trump tax cut to cost Americans 105x more than the wall budget _than projected_.](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-14/trump-tax-cut-turns-out-both-better-and-worse)
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> Effectively, the cost of the tax heist is more than $2 trillion, not just $1.5 trillion. The _difference_ is enough to fund 105 wall budget requests.
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> But Dickta would prefer to harm 800,000 people than dare give billionaires only $1.95 trillion of debt-engorged stolen public funds than $2 trillion of debt-engorged stolen public funds.

That’ll earn you a warning, John.

And I’m closing this goddam thing.

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