Post by DSDSquared on Jan 12, 2018 13:04:15 GMT
Jan 12, 2018 1:55:26 GMT @satyagraha said:
Plus, in a few years, your increased tax returns will be gone by the wayside unless you're in the top 1% or have your income coming from a pass-through entity, something which the vast majority of Americans don't have. I actually do, so it's helpful for me, but it's not helpful for everyone and slashing taxes this way will undoubtedly have negative effects on housing markets, just as it always has when this type of policy has been implemented. And illegal immigration had been declining for years before Trump, and ISIS has been a shell of its former self for years, and unemployment has been at record lows for a while......
Look, I'm all for eliminating something that you view as bad if you have a viable alternative. Getting out of the Paris accords is fine unto itself if you have something else in mind. But to just remove things and lie about them, and offering nothing else, isn't good governance - it's just spitting out talking points. The United States hadn't spent "billions and billions" of dollars on the Paris Accords as he claimed, that's just a lie; it was obligated to spend $3 billion and to date it had only contributed $1 billion of that. It wasn't an annual obligation either, just one time. But given the US has an annual GDP north of $16 trillion, that contribution is a drop in the bucket. If it's so bad, then propose something else.
That's my biggest gripe with the administration and I agree with you a lot of the hoopla is grossly overblown, but it's not baseless as you're suggesting. There are a significant number of policies that need to be implemented fast because funding to keep this country moving as a going concern has to come from somewhere.