{"id":34810,"date":"2026-08-02T13:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34810"},"modified":"2026-08-02T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:17:29","slug":"the-bbb-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34810","title":{"rendered":"The BBB strikes again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;if you didn&#8217;t know that the big beautiful tax bill that was rammed through by repubs had nothing to do with tax cuts for the little guy but it was just a giveaway to the rich, you just have to look at the results&#8230;taxes were cut massively for the 1%, and now the other shoe has dropped and the other big giveaway to the rich has been exposed&#8230;any superyacht, private jet, or private luxury travel can now be written of as a &#8220;business expense&#8221; with 100% of the cost being used to write off any taxes they may owe (which isn&#8217;t much)&#8230;so now, the 1% can buy as many luxury yachts they want and the taxpayers of this country are paying for it&#8230;and medicaid recipients are paying for it as medicaid has been cut to give these tax cuts to the rich&#8230;and everyone&#8217;s medical care is now more expensive to &#8220;afford&#8221; these tax cuts, and the latest one is Medicare drug subsidies that are being destroyed to pay for tax cuts for the rich&#8230;get the picture? The repubs are stealing money from you and me just to give the rich another super yacht or private jet&#8230;and I think there is something wrong with that we can fix if we get off our butts and vote this fall&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;if you didn&#8217;t know that the big beautiful tax bill that was rammed through by repubs had nothing to do with tax cuts for the little guy but it was just a giveaway to the rich, you just have to look at the results&#8230;taxes were cut massively for the 1%, and now the other shoe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The BBB strikes again&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4680,4681],"class_list":["post-34810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-free-superyachts-for-the-rich","tag-nothing-for-everyone-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34811,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34810\/revisions\/34811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}