Trump will lose.

[Eric the Green]

(08-26-2016, 03:32 PM)Anthony 58 Wrote: Yeah I'd say that cutting off immigration has worked out great for Japan - where any unemployment rate above 4% is indicative of a "lost decade."

Japan seems a model of your nationalist and protectionist approach. Result: stagnation. But it was only when they opened up in 1853 that they were able to progress beyond the 12th century.

Quote:And Trump would cut the top tax rate from 39.6% to 33%. Big deal. Gary Johnson would cut their taxes to basically nothing: If a super-richie makes $50 million in a year and spends $50,000 of it, you do the math under the Fair Tax - and its "pre-bate" is a red herring if ever there was one: The soon as the usual moral judgmentalists point out that it would give Skid Row bums and druggies free money to indulge their pathologies, the pre-bate is toast, and then the poor pay the full 30%.

It is a big deal. The rich get off too easy already. We have a budget deficit because they do, and not enough funding for the good programs that government does. The poor and working class will not benefit from a tax cut, but from a wage hike. The problem is that the rich get all the money from what their employees do for them. Democratic Party policies work better than Republican Party policies for all but the wealthy, and in the long run, not for them either. Trump's policies are Republican policies.

Quote:Only 47% of them pay taxes already? You mean that a single taxpayer with no dependents who makes $10 an hour is part of the top 47%? Really?

I think that taxpayer is part of the bottom 53%. As I read the tax tables. His wage needs to be raised to at least $15.

Quote:And if you're thinking ahead to a future Presidential run, maybe it's a good idea to join those 15 votes against that bankruptcy bill?

Yes, if they proposed the kind of amendments that Hillary did to an inevitable bill.