Why should I vote Republican after this tax plan?
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Anonymous
Absolutely. |
Anonymous
What would you cut at the NIH? Specifically? |
Anonymous
I don't care about those in need. Got it? Your definition of need is dividing people into groups/classes and then playing them off against one another. Time for you to start supporting yourself, and flattening the tax code so EVERYONE pays an equal percentage. |
Anonymous
Labor, administrators, sell off buildings or void the lease and return most of their people to private industry. You have a degree in biology, us it in the private sector. And we don't need 18 layers of management in every segment of government, like we have today. NIH is bloated, just like every other federal agency. |
Anonymous
Do you know how the private sector works in this field? |
Anonymous
NP here and I'll gladly pay 15K more a year in taxes - a lot for my family - if it means we have single payer healthcare for every American, fully funded public school education, including affordable public pre K, and we properly care for our most vulnerable in this country, including the mentally ill, veterans, and the elderly. But the Republicans aren't about taking money from people like me and helping society at large. They are taking money from middle class families like mine to give more to BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS. Disgraceful. We have some of the lowest tax rates in the world ALREADY. And after all the yakking and groaning from the GOP about the deficit - they're happy to add 1.5 trillion dollars to it to line the pockets of people like DeVos and the Koch brothers. Is that the utopia that Trumpkins have in mind? Is that what coal miners in Pennsylvania voted for? I'd love to hear any Republican give an explanation for that with a straight face. And trickle down economics is a hoax and no respectable economist supports that theory. So you can move to the next cheap talking point. |
Anonymous
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I want you to think about this... (rough numbers, not exact)
In 1999 Congress increased the NIH's budget by $2.3 billion[29] to $17.2 billion in 2000.[30] In 2009 Congress again increased the NIH budget to $31 billion in 2010.[30] In March 2017, President Trump proposed to cut the 2018 budget by 18.3%, or about $5.8 billion to $25.9 billion.[31]:26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health Their budget has doubled in less than twenty years. That's a ridiculous debasement of our currency, especially when we borrow 45 cents out of every dollar the government spends. That's not going to go on forever. Wake up! |
Anonymous
The thought of a tax increase doesn't freak me out. The thought of a tax increase to offset taxes for the rich does. |
Anonymous
The private sector is why Americans pay hundreds and many times thousands of dollars more for the same drugs and the same medical procedures as compared to the rest of the developed world. The rest of the developed world figured this out .... except in the US where pharma and for-profit healthcare companies are still squeezing knuckle heads like you for every dollar. |
Anonymous
Yea, you aren't going to get that for $15 grand. Sorry to wake you out of your idiotic progressive dream. We have a debt of about $62,000 for each and every person in the country TODAY. That's an indisputable government supplied number. "We have some of the lowest tax rates in the world ALREADY." - No, we have the highest taxes in the world ALREADY making us uncompetitive in a global economy. |
Anonymous
A) NIH and other agencies also are subject to inflation and other things that affect budget increases over the course of twenty years. B) NIH is a gateway for health services and procedures that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day because they aren't "profitable". So lifesaving medicines and procedures that could very well save you or yours one day get tested and applied through agencies like NIH for the common good of all Americans. C) Your cognitive dissonance is stunning. You're complaining about borrowing and yet the Republican plan would add trillions to the deficit not for health care, not for health research, not for anything of societal value - we'd be borrowing to give billionaires a tax break. Why is that okay with you? How do you keep on rationalizing that? Unless your a billionaire, of course. |
Anonymous
This is pure fiction thanks to loopholes and other mechanisms US corporations use to escape taxes - and subsidies that corporations in many industries receive. US corporations are the most profitable in the world - the US the biggest economy in the world. Stop with the talking points. And if the debt is so troubling, then the GOP plan should really irritate you. But it doesn't. The hypocrisy of stealing from the poor and middle class to give to the uber rich and then complaining about the deficit. Stunning. And lastly, countries all over the world understand that if everyone gave more taxes, even an amount like $15K per household, the societal benefits could be astounding. Except in the greedy U.S.. |
Anonymous
A) Inflation? What inflation? The government tells us there's no inflation so they don't have to raise the COLA. B) Universities do the same. And let me tell you, they're all about profit; let the PHD do all the research and the TA teach the classes. So that theory goes nowhere. C) I realize the tax plan is the opening shot. It's sausage making. It's nowhere near done. I also realize that you're all about robinhood economics instead of realizing that a large majority of "the poor" you rant about by class warfare arguments are there due to their own bad decisions. Like I've always said, you could take all the money in the country and evenly distribute it. In five years, the people who had the money before would have it again and the poor would be poor again. |
Anonymous
Yes, the old "they will spend the money or hire more people" yarn is tiresome. Did that happen under GW Bush's tax cuts? No. The wealthy hoard their wealth. They don't spread it around. |
Anonymous
And cutting taxes is going to lower that debt how? |