A thread of optimism: why do you think Trump will win in 2020?
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Anonymous
We don't live in the past. In the current, no white supremacists are democrats. You can't try to play the same conman game of "both sides". All trump has done is pass tax cuts for the rich. Everything is going where the progressives are going. Tax cuts are easy to reverse but not Obamacare or fuel standards or gay marriage. 1: Gay marriage is law. 2: Financial regulation are the law. Next step - taxes on the rich is going higher. 3. Obamacare is the law and is very popular. Next stop universal healthcare. 4. Climate change is now being fought by CA,NY and Obama fuel standards stays BECAUSE CA and NY dictates that. No auto company will make one for CA and another for red states. 5. |
Anonymous
LOL, you think democrats arent racist? what? wrong. You need to check a few recent newspapers on the things on your list. the ACA is in trouble and is in fact in litigation to be cancelled. Your climate change point is completely nonsensical. You are also crazy if you think taxes on the rich are going higher considering taxes were just lowered on the rich and corporations! |
Anonymous
+1. Dem PP is truly deluded. Having said that, if his Party of Delusion takes over, you can bet on higher taxes -- on everyone. The only way to pay for their promises is to, like in Europe, to introduce something like a 25% sales/ VAT tax, to double payroll taxes, and to significantly increase income taxes on the middle class. |
Anonymous
That’s why they lie. The poor vote: democrat. The people most hurt by progressive policy are: the poor. This makes the poor extremely victimized in their own country. By Democrats. Go figure. |
Anonymous
The top Taxes were raised by Obama and weren’t lowered to previous level. So it’s like two steps up and only one step down. Taxes are going up because we are a country drowning debt and we can’t pay for social security and Medicare if taxes don’t go up. I am totally fine with cutting down Medicare and social security to those who are above 55 and rich. Let us stop paying the old boomers any Medicare or social security because they are the ones preaching self reliance, so they let them practice what they preach. Why couldn’t the conman revoke the ACA? Because it is popular. So now we are gonna have universal healthcare next. You aren’t gonna live to see the effects of climate change but the GenZ will. So you may not care but the youngest generation, we do. |
Anonymous
Do you know the top tax rate in the 60s, when America was economic miracle and unions were strong? 80%. The rich and the companies had it good and the workers had it good too. Then the Reagan revolution dropped taxes and busted unions. That’s when the American decline began. Europe is better at income distribution so income inequality is lot less there. Ours is as bad as Brazil and s Africa. https://www.vox.com/2018/7/29/17627134/income-inequality-chart The 12 charts shown in the link below tells the story of American inequality and how the rich have been cheating the rest. https://www.epi.org/publication/top-charts-of-2018-twelve-charts-that-show-how-policy-could-reduce-inequality-but-is-making-it-worse-instead/ |
Anonymous
That's the European model. And it makes sense. But that's not what Dem(agogue) Party candidates are proposing. They are selling the illusion that everything will be free for everyone and only some evildoers (the rich) will magically pay for it all. FDR, like Bill Clinton, like Biden --- all of them are to the right of today's "progressives." If the GOP was a bit smarter it would simply open the door when they come knocking |
Anonymous
You are confusing nominal tax rates with effective tax rates. No one was paying 80% effective tax rates in the 60s because there were a million deductions and ways to lower the bill. Look it up. Please. Which is why Reagan fought so successfully to simplify the tax code and lower everyone's taxes...giving us decades of prosperity and beating the communist empire. |
Anonymous
Europeans have Universal healthcare, free college, free training and apprenticeship, Public transit, high taxes on gas, BUT also cleaner air, water and much better quality of education and better quality of life. What’s wrong with that? German companies have public private training, apprenticeship and profit sharing with employees. The per capita billionaires in Germany is lot smaller than USA. What’s wrong with that? And you know what Japan is a rich country with very healthy and long living population who are taken care of by welfare until death. For worlds third largest economy japan has only a hand full of billionaires. You know why? The corporations share the profit with employees. What’s wrong with that? Enough with the rich getting away with everything and the middle class becoming “poorly educated” idiots voting for a conman. |
Anonymous
EPI? They're a little bit communist to be quite frank. Trumka sits at the head of them. Let's stop with the Piketty and Saez economics. Everyone knows these people lie like a rug and half the country pays no income taxes. |
Anonymous
Read the two links to educate yourself. Additional link below to Thomas piketty’s seminal study about inequality and the reasons behind it. https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/pikettys-inequality-story-in-six-charts/amp |
Anonymous
For the cult 45 only the liar in chief is the truth teller but noble prize winners in economics (krugman, Sachs ) and European economists are all liars. What a shame. Can you point to what economist your con man is following? Yeah right, the third rate TV talk show idiots and his own bankruptcy economics. 
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Anonymous
Sweetie, it's you who needs quite an education. Why don't you start by researching what I suggested above, after your ignorant claim that people paid an 80% top tax rate in the 60s -- what was the EFFECTIVE tax rate paid by say the top 10% earners? Hint: You'll be surprised. |
Anonymous
Did you even read any of the links you “poorly educated” cult member. Effective tax rate isn’t just individual alone, the effective corporate taxes and individual tax rates together were about 80%. Read those links. |
Anonymous
Sorry, I thought I was talking with someone with a genuine interest in facts, not a poorly educated cult member. My mistake. Won't happen again. |