In short, having huge numbers of Americans complain to Congress, as with this piece of legislation, can influence laws at the margin.

The rest of the bill is still awful; it imposes new and large taxes on wind and solar while eliminating subsidies for them, funds a the deportation of millions, cuts medicaid sharply (in large part through imposing onerous paperwork on people) and cuts taxes for billionaires while raising them on the poor.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago

That's been a fantasy of theirs since the 1840s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret

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