Technofascist Stabilization by Tax Code: Trump’s $27 Trillion War Against the Working Class

Romm calls it a policy debate. We call it what it is: technofascist stabilization—a process where the U.S. state fuses with finance capital, Big Tech, and militarized governance to discipline labor, defund social reproduction, and consolidate oligarchic rule. This bill doesn’t fix the economy—it turns the state into a fortress for the rich. And Romm’s article doesn’t challenge that fortress. It paints over the bloodstains on the marble floor.

Yes, the Times sometimes reports on inequality. But it never names the system. It never uses words like capitalism, empire, colonial theft, or wage slavery. It never connects Baltimore’s hunger to Gaza’s blockade, or Wall Street’s bonuses to Jackson’s water crisis. And when it comes to stories like this—when the ruling class is preparing another round of legalized looting—it retreats into jargon, euphemism, and balance. It quotes “both sides” as if one isn’t holding the other at gunpoint.

We’re not asking the Times to tell the truth. That’s not its function. Our job isn’t to reform the media. It’s to expose it. And to build something beyond it—a revolutionary press that names names, calls theft what it is, and arms the people with analysis sharp enough to fight back.

II. Looting Ain’t New: This Is What the Empire Calls “Economic Policy”

Let’s not get lost in the numbers. Sure, the facts are ugly enough on their own. Trump’s $27 trillion tax bill gives the richest 0.1% a windfall—nearly $400,000 a year—while working people making under $51,000 are expected to lose up to $1,000 by 2026. That’s not a typo. That’s the plan. And that plan includes slashing Medicaid, food stamps, and other lifelines just to pay for another banquet for billionaires. You’d be forgiven for thinking it sounds like a mistake. A bad policy. But no, this is the policy. This is the design.

What the New York Times doesn’t say—and will never say—is that this isn’t some one-off legislative fluke. This is the latest chapter in a 40-year war against the poor, the working class, and the colonized. A war waged with spreadsheets instead of bullets, but a war all the same. Every few years, they change the names—“reform,” “relief,” “stimulus”—but the result is always the same: they take, we lose.

Go back to Reagan in the 1980s. He came in with a smile and a switchblade—cut taxes for the rich, broke the unions, told workers to tighten their belts while the rich loosened theirs. Clinton followed suit in the ‘90s, gutting welfare, locking up a generation of Black and Brown youth, and bragging about it on the campaign trail. Bush Jr. gave more tax breaks to billionaires while bankrupting entire countries through endless war. Obama bailed out the banks and told us it was progress. Trump slashed taxes in 2017 and now wants to finish what they all started. One hand signs the bill, the other grabs your wallet.

But under Trump 2.0, the attack has escalated. This isn’t just neoliberalism. This is technofascist stabilization: the restructuring of state power to preserve capital through repression, austerity, and high-tech counterinsurgency. This tax bill is just one pillar. Alongside it, Trump is dismantling labor protections, turning the Department of Labor into a strikebreaking tool, and rolling back decades of wage and safety regulations. The NLRB has been defanged. OSHA is on life support. The White House is proposing to ban public sector unions altogether. And Trump’s allies are plotting to privatize Social Security next.

He’s expanding e-verify surveillance networks to track undocumented workers and suppress wages. Biometric ID systems are being piloted to control labor flow, especially among migrants. This is what we call technofascist labor recalibration—the use of digital enforcement and legal repression to squeeze labor into desperation while protecting capital from revolt. Every “efficiency” is a cage. Every deregulation is a noose.

Meanwhile, Trump’s allies in Congress are deregulating crypto markets and asset flows to give new life to the zombie class of tech-finance oligarchs—what we’ve called the platform feudalists. They promise “freedom,” but their business model is built on algorithmic exploitation, surveillance, and wage suppression. Deregulating this sector isn’t innovation—it’s financial piracy rebranded.

And don’t miss the colonial line that runs through it all. The programs they’re cutting? They don’t just serve “the poor.” They serve Black people. Brown people. Migrants. The colonized inside the empire. Cutting SNAP and Medicaid is settler-colonial pacification by budget cut. The ruling class knows it can’t police every corner with tanks, so it does it with poverty. They keep us hungry and desperate, then blame us for being poor. That’s not incompetence. That’s strategy.

What’s happening isn’t just class war—it’s crisis management. The empire is crumbling, and the ruling class is sealing the exits. They’re not trying to solve the crisis. They’re trying to survive it—by any means necessary. And their survival depends on your obedience, your exhaustion, your silence.

This tax bill isn’t a mistake. It’s a message: The system will be preserved, and you will be sacrificed. Unless we organize to stop it.

III. It’s Not a Tax Bill. It’s a Blueprint for Plunder

Let’s call this bill what it really is: a weapon. Not a fiscal tool. Not a policy disagreement. A precision-guided missile aimed at the stomachs and savings of poor and working-class people. And the warhead? It’s dressed up in technical jargon and bipartisan respectability. But the explosion is real—millions will lose food, medicine, housing, and dignity if this bill becomes law. This is not reform. It’s regime maintenance. It’s the architecture of technofascist stabilization—designed not to help the economy, but to discipline the population.

Trump isn’t inventing a new order. He’s consolidating the old one—fused with new digital tools, stripped of even the pretense of social contract. He calls it growth. But what it grows is capital, crisis, and cruelty. This isn’t about economic development. It’s about class control. And it’s no accident that this so-called “economic plan” coincides with deportation drives, protest bans, TikTok crackdowns, and social media surveillance. The empire is putting its boot down harder—because it knows people are waking up.

This is how hyper-imperialism operates in decline. It doesn’t retreat. It reorganizes. It bleeds the colonized abroad through sanctions, coups, and occupations. And it bleeds the colonized at home through evictions, inflation, and wage theft. The same logic that bombs Gaza cuts food stamps in Baltimore. The same forces privatizing water in Haiti are privatizing schools in Jackson. Different theaters, same war.

We must reject every frame offered to us by the imperialist media apparatus. This is not about deficits or party divides or tax brackets. This is about survival. This is about class war, waged by the rich in a dying empire, using the state as their hammer and the press as their cloak. And we are not neutral. We are not confused. We are not waiting for better Democrats or kinder billionaires. We stand with the poor, the workers, the colonized, the mothers choosing between insulin and rent, the tenants organizing against evictions, the youth hunted by the police but still dreaming of freedom.

So let’s reframe the question: not “Will this tax plan pass?” but “How long will we let them rule?” How many more cycles of cuts, cages, and concessions before we fight to take back what’s ours—not just in wages, but in power? Not just reform, but revolutionary rupture. The kind that doesn’t negotiate with thieves but disarms them.

This moment isn’t just about resisting a bill. It’s about naming the system and preparing to destroy it. Not in isolation. Not in despair. But in coordination with the struggles already rising across the globe—from Haiti to Sudan, Chiapas to Palestine, Atlanta to Oakland. Because this bill may be national, but the resistance is international. And the hour is closer than they want us to believe.

IV. No Taxation Without Rebellion: It’s Time to Build Our Own Power

Let’s be clear: we are not spectators in this process. We are not commentators. We are not policy analysts tallying numbers on a whiteboard. We are the people this bill is designed to destroy—and we refuse to die quietly. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the working class, with the colonized, with the landless and the locked-up, with every tenant under eviction and every migrant threatened with deportation. This system was not made for us. And we owe it nothing.

We declare our ideological and political unity with the global majority—the workers in Detroit and Delhi, the peasants in Chiapas and the Sahel, the mothers in Gaza and the Bronx. We honor the long tradition of resistance to austerity and looting: from the welfare rights movements of the 1970s, to the food sovereignty battles of the 2000s, to today’s fights against housing evictions, student debt, and labor precarity. These are not isolated protests. They are fragments of a broader fight: the battle to overthrow the parasitic rule of capital.

We call on all revolutionaries, organizers, defectors from empire, and everyday people to do more than condemn this bill. Let us turn outrage into organization. Let us transform analysis into action. Let us build dual and contending power—our own institutions, rooted in the working class, that can challenge and ultimately replace this system.

• Organize worker and tenant unions to refuse rent hikes, wage theft, and austerity-driven layoffs.
• Launch people’s budgeting campaigns in your city to expose and redirect public funds from police to housing, healthcare, and food.
• Build revolutionary education programs to teach political economy, class struggle, and anti-colonial theory outside the schools of the ruling class.
• Target institutions backing the bill: protest outside banks like JPMorgan, asset managers like BlackRock, and the think tanks laundering the theft.
• Join or support campaigns of material solidarity with oppressed nations—Palestine, Cuba, Haiti, Sudan—whose liberation is bound to our own.

This is not a moment to “raise awareness.” It is a moment to raise hell—and to raise organization. If they are preparing another round of economic warfare, we must prepare another front of class resistance. Not just reaction, but construction. Not just defense, but revolution.

The bill is a symptom. The system is the disease. And we are the cure—if we dare to become it.