Alternate Reality

@a777pilot Said

Thank you, Mr. Trump. We are one more step closer to a well-needed tax reform and a tax cut.

Any and all tax cuts are a good thing.

@a777pilot Said

Thank you, Mr. Trump. We are one more step closer to a well-needed tax reform and a tax cut.

Any and all tax cuts are a good thing.

@Leon Said

They did it. Corporate America has won.

It never was about saving our future generations, or even making life better for the majority of Americans now. It was always about the immediate bottom line for the top bosses. Their hard work in lobbying congress and fooling the population has finally paid off in what will be their greatest Christmas gift wish imaginable, at the expense of the population, health care, and our conversely unimaginable future debt.

And if you honestly think the tax cut proposal is a good thing for our future, then consider yourself among those hoodwinked. Every non-biased study has shown that trickle down economics fails in its projections, and it's not even close.

But it doesn't matter to the ruling political party that is, and has been for quite some time, ignoring fact and living in an alternate reality.

Here we have its top boss telling lies 5.5 times a day and running the country on paranoia-driven fear, its vocal proponents telling us that only those who talk to a imaginary benevolent zombie will be raptured away from the s***, its other leaders telling us that climate science is fiction, a hoax, and a conspiracy, and its governing body telling us that adding 1.5 trillion to the yearly deficit (note, as opposed to the cumulative debt, which is so bad, nobody even goes there) is a good thing.

Even Hitler's propaganda machine would have been no standard to this one.

@Electric_Banana Said

I'm not sure what country it's taken place but recently a nasty virus has sprung lose and is slowly taking down upper class; it originated from lower income sectors where the people were too poor to take care of their health.

Poetic Justice I guess.

@Leon Said

So you are in favor of adding 1.5 trillion to the debt per year and the draconian cuts to your retirement benefits and health care that will follow as a result?

@GAKingKong Said

Mixed bag.

It's virtually impossible to expect the feds to spend less money on healthcare and the military. It's a shame too because they are assuming a burden which isn't rightfully theirs (at least with the medicine part.)

Reduction in the corporate tax is absolutely needed however. So, really we ought to continue to think long term on how to stabilize the US Dollar and promoting wealth and job creation for Americans.

The deficit is a problem no doubt. That's what we get for electing politicians who are convinced they need to speed money to show us they care.

@nooneinparticular Said

The short term solution is attempting to aggressively compete with China's labor market by adopting policies similar to theirs in an effort to entice companies to move here.

The long term solution is to invest in education and use the higher skilled workforce to make our labor market more desirable than theirs.

Even assuming that the short term solution would work at all, we then get a situation in which China and the US race to the bottom in an attempt to outbid each other for corporate investment.

@a777pilot Said

Thank you, Mr. Trump. We are one more step closer to a well-needed tax reform and a tax cut.

Any and all tax cuts are a good thing.

@bob_the_fisherman Said

Or just place tariffs on some Chinese goods and keep demanding that they stop artificially deflating their currency.

@bob_the_fisherman Said

Or just place tariffs on some Chinese goods and keep demanding that they stop artificially deflating their currency.