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Republican Tax Plan (a nothingburger with cheese)


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I do support Trump's and Bannon's nationalist economic policies. I'm a retired GM worker whose factory is a ghost today.

 

 

A major part of those economic policies you support are across the board income tax reductions, as well as cutting corporate taxes by nearly 50%. How is it that you are against "trickle down", when those tax policies are in fact the very essence of supply-side tax policy?

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A major part of those economic policies you support are across the board income tax reductions, as well as cutting corporate taxes by nearly 50%. How is it that you are against "trickle down", when those tax policies are in fact the very essence of supply-side tax policy?

 

I'm all for cutting corporate tax way down if they bring back outsourced jobs.

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We need tax cuts to improve the economy?

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-19/fewest-jobless-claims-since-1973-show-firm-u-s-job-market

 

Filings for unemployment benefits plunged last week to the lowest level since 1973

 

 

Obama left office with a great economy

 

Allowing middle class folks to keep more of our own money and inject those dollars into the economy is never a bad thing.

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This is old (late August) but Ann Coulter isn't too keen on Trump and the GOP focusing on tax reform. This was kind of humorous. She really wants that wall.

 

https://www.mediaite.com/online/ann-coulter-eviscerates-trumps-tax-reform-address-in-tweetstorm-worst-most-tone-deaf-speech/

 

Is she right?

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Allowing middle class folks to keep more of our own money and inject those dollars into the economy is never a bad thing.

Even if you are borrowing that money from the Chinese so your kids have to pay it back?

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Ann Coulter ✔@AnnCoulter

Bush cut taxes! Did it create millions of jobs? Nope. The rich pocketed their tax cut & sent jobs abroad, hired guest workers. F-- them.
2:58 PM - Aug 30, 2017
Ann Coulter ✔@AnnCoulter
It's like Night of the Living Dead watching our beloved @realDonaldTrump go to DC & start babbling the same old GOP nonsense on tax cuts.
3:01 PM - Aug 30, 2017

 

This is old (late August) but Ann Coulter isn't too keen on Trump and the GOP focusing on tax reform. This was kind of humorous. She really wants that wall.

 

https://www.mediaite.com/online/ann-coulter-eviscerates-trumps-tax-reform-address-in-tweetstorm-worst-most-tone-deaf-speech/

 

Is she right?

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Allowing middle class folks to keep more of our own money and inject those dollars into the economy is never a bad thing.

But most of the money will go to the upper classes and increase the deficit and debt

 

Are they seriously considering cutting 401ks contribution levels?? How stupid that would be.

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This is old (late August) but Ann Coulter isn't too keen on Trump and the GOP focusing on tax reform. This was kind of humorous. She really wants that wall.

 

https://www.mediaite.com/online/ann-coulter-eviscerates-trumps-tax-reform-address-in-tweetstorm-worst-most-tone-deaf-speech/

 

Is she right?

Eventually she will get so angry she will melt. Thats trumps plan.

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Even if you are borrowing that money from the Chinese so your kids have to pay it back?

Two wrongs don't make your question right...

First, the Chinese are making a choice to purchase US paper in return for continuing to sell their goods to US consumers at "current prices." They accumulate $s through their trade surplus with US, and rather than sell those $s for yuan and cause the dollar to depreciate against it--which would make their goods more expensive, they CHOOSE to purchase US assets to keep the exchange rate stable. We get their cheap stuff and they get an IOU that can gives them other pieces of paper at some future date.

 

Second, have you paid back any of the government debt that was issued when your parents were working? It never has to be paid back. Just like a corporation that can live forever does, US debt is rolled over as it matures. As the safest and most liquid market in the world, US debt is in high demand by financial institutions, wealthy investors, sovereign wealth funds, et al. As long as the US debt-to-GDP ratio doesn't get out of hand--though no one (not even Rogoff) knows what that means, the debt never has to be paid off.

 

Now, if Trump's tax plan causes trillion dollar deficits when we're not in a recession, then it's time to worry...but not for the reasons you stated...

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There are no solutions to tax problems, every proposal is met instantly with stinging rebuttal, hard to say who is precisely right or wrong.

 

Public perception is very important for enticing people to take their savings (or go into debt) to invest in anticipated future streams of cash flow at a profit. This leads to jobs and economic betterment for people.

 

So cutting taxes is a good symbol that the government wants investment in the future, at the very least.

 

but who knows...

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Public perception is very important for enticing people to take their savings (or go into debt) to invest in anticipated future streams of cash flow at a profit. This leads to jobs and economic betterment for people.

 

but who knows...

What you describe leads to higher stock prices. Jobs increase as a response to increased sales. tax cuts influence job creation if those cuts are targeted at those who buy things, not assets.
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What you describe leads to higher stock prices. Jobs increase as a response to increased sales. tax cuts influence job creation if those cuts are targeted at those who buy things, not assets.

 

There is no way that the Dems would support a GOP tax cut, even if it miraculously next day cured cancer, it will always be griping and pointing out anyone they can find who it didn't help.

 

You also need a President who can convince the country that he is pro-business.

 

Regan and Trump definitely, Carter and Obama not so much, Clinton surprisingly sorta but not like Reagan and Trump...

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There is no way that the Dems would support a GOP tax cut, even if it miraculously next day cured cancer, it will always be griping and pointing out anyone they can find who it didn't help.

 

You also need a President who can convince the country that he is pro-business.

 

Regan and Trump definitely, Carter and Obama not so much, Clinton surprisingly sorta but not like Reagan and Trump...

You redeemed yourself.

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