Get The USS John McCain Out Of Trump's Sight!Posted By Rod Kaufman |
Get The USS John McCain Out Of Trump's Sight!Posted By Rod Kaufman |
It's too bad they didn't get to him before he enacted his whacko tariff on Mexico today. It's not that they didn't try though, at least two of his top economic advisers tried placing the stable genius back into the fold of reality but they couldn't succeed because he's too far gone. If the US can't stop the immigrant flow, what chance does Mexico? They don't have the resources to stop it. The tariff today was enacted as some sort of punitive measure against Mexico and not on the basis of an economic rationale. The stock market and prominent GOP senators reacted accordingly. But what can you expect from a wingnut? And they're still not paying for the wall, either...Originally Posted by Jim MoscheckSometimes you have to do these things. When they were four I remember sometimes relying of subterfuge to keep our kids from doing something to avoid them making a scene. That's all Trump's handlers were doing, avoiding a potential presidential tantrum. Amazing that think they have to put forth a false reality to keep him from having a conniption.
Get The USS John McCain Out Of Trump's Sight!Posted By Rod Kaufman |
Get The USS John McCain Out Of Trump's Sight!Posted By Rod Kaufman |
Get The USS John McCain Out Of Trump's Sight!Posted By Rod Kaufman |
You been smoking the same stuff as Rich?...Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
Dream on Rod.....
You need to stop fronting and come out of the closet.....we all know you are a closet Trump voter LOL
Get The USS John McCain Out Of Trump's Sight!Posted By Rod Kaufman |
Yup, especially when it comes to the 28 billion dollar bailout of American farmers due to the tariff war with China.Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Yes it is called common sense. You should try it, it might look good on you!
Get The USS John McCain Out Of Trump's Sight!Posted By Rod Kaufman |
Get The USS John McCain Out Of Trump's Sight!Posted By Rod Kaufman |
Trickle-Down Economics. Literally a Joke.Posted By Rod Kaufman |
After following these reports as well as previous ones from the CBO, the GOP response remains the same. That is, unless it supports them on the issues, it's always biased, political, partisan, ignoring the facts, not looking at the whole picture, etc, etc. Then, when confronted with reality, such as the time Mitch McConnell realized the reports were, in fact, accurate and the tax cuts were not going to pays for themselves, his response to that news was it's "disappointing". In the meantime. we're all screwed because they won't acknowledge the reports...Originally Posted by James Lacey
It's even worse than this. The Congressional Research Service recently released a report that confirms what many of us have suspected, that is, "President Donald Trump’s signature tax code overhaul has not generated any meaningful new economic growth that wasn’t already underway, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) has found." Undoubtedly, someone will show up and shoot the messenger, but the CRS is a non-partisan public policy research arm of the US Congress that works for the Congress. Their entire reason for existence is to create meaningfully unbiased research on public policy that the Congress can then use to make informed decisions. The Republican tax cut was, in fact, a give away to the wealthy. For example, while the average corporate tax rate fell from 24% to 12%, the individual tax rate only fell from 9.6% to 9.2%. Full report here: https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R45736.html
Trickle-Down Economics. Literally a Joke.Posted By Rod Kaufman |
Hi Jim,Originally Posted by James Brown
Hi James:
True of course. Earlier in this thread you mentioned that, "The Republican tax cut was, in fact, a give away to the wealthy. For example, while the average corporate tax rate fell from 24% to 12%, the individual tax rate only fell from 9.6% to 9.2%. Full report here..." That is a complex sentence, and I want to make sure that I am not misinterpreting your point. The corporate tax cut will help the wealthy, the middle class and the poor as well, assuming that folks of all economic classes are working for corporations, and in the case of the middle class, investing in a 401k that uses date of retirement funds, index funds and the like, and in the case of everyone enjoying a growing economy. Therefore, I see the corporate tax rate cut being a winner for all economic classes, not just the rich.
I certainly wish my individual rate were 9.6% or 9.2%! Since it is not, maybe I did get a bigger tax break than my neighbor, but still I pay a lot of taxes. These discussions of rate structure would be best carried out under the recognition that a progressive rate tax system can be tuned to optimize this or that desired result, with more or less hope of predictable economic results. That is not the angle folks such as David'e initial "Joke" author take though! They see everything through the lens of class warfare.
Jim
