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1.  Anyone who already works in government knows that at least 50% of your colleagues are deadwood.  Maybe you are deadwood yourself.  So not "dismantle government" but get rid of deadwood.  Improve efficiency.  Justify your existence.  (Like with the DOE.)  Scary, right, I know?

2.  Trump wants a trillion dollar infrastructure project.  But maybe to pay for it, he wants to get rid of your do-nothing job.  Too bad, so sad.

3.  Social Security and Medicare won't be dismantled.  But it has to be fixed.  Democrats haven't offered a viable plan.  Waiting 21 years until the surplus is used up is stupid.  So reform will get done, but liberals won't have a seat at the table.  Too bad again.

4.  Tax revenues won't go down, they'll go up as the economy expands, perhaps at a somewhat slower pace, perhaps not.  Another ridiculous leftist straw man.  But hopefully the taxes will be used a little more wisely.  It doesn't even have to be used vastly more wisely.  5% more efficient use of tax revenues, overall, would be a huge benefit to the economy.

5.  Republicans don't want "the country" to look like anything.  They want you to have the freedom to live your life the way you see fit within very wide parameters.  But of course, liberals don't like that, because it means they have to leave other people alone to choose how to live their own lives, too.   Only leftists have a grand socialist organizing agenda for how the "country" should "look."  (Like Seattle, I guess.  Or maybe Austin.)

6. Hereditary based political structure?

7.  One person, one vote?  You mean you're OK with a conservative Supreme Court that doesn't constantly overrule legislation approved by the  majority of the population because they think they know best?

8.  Now you're worried about foreign invaders?  But not about Islamic terrorism? Not about illegal immigration?

9.  Crumbling infrastructure...well Trump's got that covered, if the liberals don't block him.  A trillion dollars should be enough to get the ball rolling.

10.  Getting rid of useless government employees who perform no useful function--and there are lots of them--isn't dismantling government.  It's making government better.  Sorry if you're one of those employees honey.[/quote]

Ok, so what specific programs do the Republicans want to cut? I ask because most of the federal money goes to Department of Defense and Department of Agriculture programs that mostly benefit the military and farmers.

Realize also that when Republicans talk about making the Federal Government smaller and leaving more options for the states themselves to fund, the result of that will be the transfer of money from NY, CA and MD to places like WV, AL and AR will end. Those states don't have the money to make up those programs. They don't have the corporate infrastructure, the wealth and knowledge base and resources. So the end result will be the subsidy that the so-called blue states provides to the red states will end. The blue states and DC will continue to fund things like paid family leave, health care etc while the red state residents will not have those benefits.

You have likely already seen articles profiling Trump voters who want ACA to continue. Well it won't and to their detriment.

With respect to the proposed $1T investment that Trump has floated, understand, what he is proposing is a glorified public-private partnership that will transfer public assets like roads and bridges into private interests. It will make the 1% even fatter at the expense of the poor stiffs who will have to pay tolls to use those assets where now, it is somewhat part of the gas tax.

On your point #4, we have already seen trickle down economics not work a couple of times before. In fact, in the glory days of the post WW2 era, do you know what the spread between the CEO and line workers was? Do you know the marginal tax rates for top earners?

Do a little research on this, please for your own good.[/quote]

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