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idiotic tax cuts for the rich. here is an accountant (knows more than I do) bitching about plans (before it was passed), here is the wikipedia, here is a summary about why it sucks. Note that it expires in 2025, at which point taxes will shoot back up. the US eroded its tax base with the law, and making the cuts indefinite would mean the us loses even more money. its not sustainable. the law was designed with the assumption that it would frick over the 2025 administration (which in 2017 republicans assumed would be Dems) because taxes will shoot up (and thus be their fault). the net result from all of this? +$500 to net household income, considered statistically insignificant. but the 1% got a nice cut.
under trump, the federal reserve overplayed its hand. they had QE running even though the markets were good (bad idea), then when markets went to shit (covid) they had no recourse (because they hand was already played) except inflating the shit out of everything. Biden became president during the midst of this, but it's a well-known economic fact that there is Nothing You Can Do during an inflationary recession. I will repeat it for those of you in the back: economists don't have cowtools to deal with inflationary recessions. the outcome we got was the best we could have, inflation was a lot worse in other countries.
trump wants to put a blanket tariff over ALL imports (terrible idea), wants a weaker dollar (say hi to inflation)
absolute disaster for the national debt (source)
military and global affairs
abused the state dept to fabricate and push anti-vaccine propaganda in the Phillipines (reuters) in an effort to combat the Phillipines buying vaccines from China (the US's were too expensive). Biden shut it down after he found out about it (was kept on the dl)
a long, long list of ways that trump has fricked over us troops
the whole first indictment
always lets putin get what he wants
social issues
i will reference project 2025 in this section
trump set up concentration camps for immigrant children, then "lost" 1488 of them... where i have i seen that number before? (ap news)
make abortion flat-out illegal
rollback trans ppl in the military
roll back s*x discrimination protections on gay and transgender people (page 584)
define trans people as child s*x pests: "Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women." (page 5)
"It should also pursue the death penalty for applicable crimesβparticularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children" (page 554)
taken together, it seems as though they are paving the way to outlaw existing as a transgender person (possibly through the death penalty)
redefine public transit as to include ride sharing: "A better definition for public transit (which also would require congressional legislation) would be transit provided for the public rather than transit provided by a public municipality." (page 635)
reduce funding for public transit (more for personal automobiles) and remove federal funding for city transit -- instead, funding would have to go thru state govts who then do what they want rather than straight to the cities
get rid of the dept of education, fda
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Tax cuts are good
I guess unless you're a
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She's not a
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@X would have never met up with her if she was.
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frick off
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somehow i dont think you read all of the relevant details. the facts that the bill was predicated on (mean household income increase, trickle down economics) turned out to be false. Sure, it lowered taxes, but it didnt grow the economy at all. it mostly just cut taxes for the richest of the rich. the us is still spending the same amount of money, so where is it going to come from? (hint: taxes will spike in 2025 and they won't be able to lower it) this is akin to people voting for joe biden because of student loan forgiveness
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Ok but kill all bureaucrats
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Many South American countries for instance are in this weird spot where they have Denmark types of taxation and bureaucracy combined with African levels of corruption and incompetence. That's why lolberts are seen as reasonable over here.
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Denmark has had a lolbert stint within recent memory. Multiple even.
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What's the most cucked and globohomo Nordic country? Sweden?
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Denmark is the most conservative, Norway is the most nationalistic, Sweden is the most sw*dish![:marseysick: :marseysick:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysick.webp)
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