ECP NetHappenings Tax Day 2025

4/15/25 TAX DAY

“BILLIONAIRES WON’T CREATE JOBS IF WE TAX THEM,”
IS A MYTH MADE UP BY BILLIONAIRES SO WE WON’T TAX THEM.
When billionaires and corporations get tax cuts, our taxes go up and the amount and quality of the services our taxes pay for go down.

Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar
Every House Republican wants to cut taxes for billionaires while taking nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid. every American should know this.

BILLIONAIRS DON’T NEED ANY MORE TAX BREAKS THEY NEED TO PAY!
Call Congress 202-224-3121. we don’t want a #BillionaireTaxBailOut
The Republicans want to cut a trillion dollars in life saving programs like Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps) to give tax breaks to the wealthiest while taxing lower income Americans more!

The three richest families own more wealth than the bottom half of the country But the problem (according to the richest people) is the poor people.

Congressional Republicans’ budget plan will give $4.5 TRILLION in tax cuts to billionaires and mega-corporations and pay for it by cutting funding for our health care, education, nutrition assistance, and child care.

BREAKING: Just 100 billionaire families poured a record-breaking $2.6 BILLION into the 2024 election.
That’s 2.5x the $1 BILLION spent by individual billionaires in 2020.
Now they’ve come to collect trillions in tax cuts while we foot the bill.

The Republican tax plan is now projected to cost up to $5.5 TRILLION.
70% of the benefits are set to go to the richest 5% of Americans. #BillionaireTaxBailout

Working people are struggling to afford gas, groceries, and rent.
Meanwhile, billionaires are now worth a record $6.5 TRILLION.
So what do Trump and Republicans want to do?
Give billionaires more tax breaks and make the rest of us pay for it. #BillionaireTaxBailout

Billionaires got $3.6 trillion richer after the Trump tax scam.
They’re now worth a record $6.5 trillion.
Billionaires don’t need more tax breaks.

“But how can we afford paid leave?”
“But how can we afford free child care?”
“But how can we afford student loan forgiveness?”
“But how can we afford universal health care?”
How? We make the super-wealthy pay their fair share.

Trump wants to spend $45B to expand ICE detention — and let the private prison companies who bankrolled his campaign run at least a half dozen new detention centers.
This won’t make us safer, but it will make the border-industrial complex even richer.

If Bernie’s wealth tax was signed into law during the pandemic, Jeff Bezos would have paid $53.4 billion more in taxes, Medicare would have been expanded to all & 338,000 lives would’ve been saved. Instead, Bezos is using his obscene wealth to blast celebrities into outer space.

TAX LOOPHOLES TAX LOOPHOLES TAX LOOPHOLES TAXLOOPHOLES

Under the Trump budget plan just passed by Congress, a staggering 70% of House Republicans would personally financially benefit from extending major tax loopholes. More money for them, paid for by cuts to YOUR benefits.

EDUCATION

1) Harvard University to Donald Trump: “F^^k off.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5364829/trump-administration-freezes-funds-after-harvard-rejects-dei-demands
AND
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-rejects-policy-changes/index.html
Barack Obama Applauds Harvard For Refusing To Bow To Pressure From Trump “Let’s hope others follow suit,” the former president wrote on social media.

Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Data Collection on School Kids

Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove
Fluoridated water at 0.7 ppm (parts per million) is NOT a neurotoxin.
It DOES improve dental health.
Lead IS neurotoxic at 0.05 ppm in kids.
Good thing RFK Jr cut the CDC lead poisoning prevention team & wants to ban fluoride.
We are gonna be so much healthier, right?

AI – COMPUTERS – HUMANITY

2) You really think AI is sentient? that it can think for itself?

IT’S ABOUT THE CONVERGENCE OF AI WITH BIOTECHNOLOGY TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE .

— AI will recursively self-improve.

“The computers are now doing self-improvement. They don’t have to listen to us anymore.”

WATCH Eric Schmidt says intelligence is about to decouple from us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jhEYofpaQ

SAYS Within six years: a mind smarter than the sum of humans — scaled, recursive, free. We have no language for what’s coming.

Eric Schmidt’s timeline-
Year 1: AI replaces most programmers & top math grads Year 2: Recursive self-improvement begins
Years 3-5: AGI
Year 6: ASI
He serves as the Chair of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

NEW WORD
The Butlerian Jihad, also known as the Great Revolt as well as commonly shortened to the Jihad, was the crusade against computers, thinking machines.

the science of scaling / building infrastructure
for scaling a multi trillion dollar industry

@FordP100
Eric Schmidt calls the rise of machine intelligence “decoupling,” but he’s really describing the replacement of human consciousness with soulless computation. He’s not warning us—he’s marveling. He built the systems that surveil us and now cheers on the creation of minds that don’t need us. But intelligence without conscience isn’t progress—it’s catastrophe. True intelligence is relational, embodied, and moral. Schmidt mistakes scale for wisdom and automation for evolution. In doing so, he’s not just being naive—he’s actively erasing what makes us human. That’s not visionary. That’s the blindness of an evil idiot guiding us toward digital annihilation.

@BowTiedYanqui
However, there is a difference between intelligence and wisdom.
I work with AI on a daily basis and I’ve seen it mess up perfectly good code for no reason and when I call it out it just thanks me for the correction.
The movie, “Don’t Eat the Daisies” applies here. So far even the best models have no common sense at all.
They are just extremely intelligent but lack wisdom.

OR
It’s just fear porn. The ‘invisible enemy’ narrative.
All nonsense and here’s why:

OR
We can’t deliver enough electricity to it so…… it’s dead cause no juice,
and Eric just bought a $40M mansion in London… where will he be hiding.

THE U.S. IS LAWLESS

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia
BRING THE BOY BACK HOME!
Pastor Martin Niemöller:
“First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me”

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Donald Trump Is Defying The Supreme Court
In the case of the wrongfully removed immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump administration is defying — and lying about — a Supreme Court order. Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court.

What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-is-john-roberts-thinking
We’ve got Steve Bannon on Bill Maher insisting that not only does Donald Trump have the right to run for a third term, but HE’LL WIN! Sure, we need to talk to our adversaries, but when they spew B.S. like this it’s okay to denigrate them. The Constitution means nothing to Bannon, THERE ARE WAYS AROUND IT!

BANK IS HACKED

@SpencerHakimian
*JPMORGAN LIMITS INFORMATION SHARING WITH OCC AFTER HACK
If it wasn’t for all the tariffs, this would be the biggest story in finance right now.
The biggest bank in our country literally does not want to share information with the Treasury Department anymore because of how bad the Treasury has gotten at stopping information theft.
Maybe indiscriminately firing government workers wasn’t the best idea?

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