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Economics Discuss Deficit hawks are dead, and few in Washington can muster any outrage at the Political Forums; Originally Posted by treedancer The increase this year was more than likely because of tRumpCare started with this executive order ... |
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Why your insurance premiums "more than doubled" and why your deductibles went "through the roof" in 2011 may be unknown but we do know that it didn't have anything to do with Obamacare because Obamacare didn't become effective until 2013.
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Democrats and many of Independents have been very vocal in condemning the GOP tax cuts where, in the end, 81% of the financial benefits end up in the pockets of the top 1% of income households. The GOP tax cuts from 2017 are the only tax cuts in memory that had a negative (-14%) approval rating making them more unpopular that the tax increases under Clinton (-11%) and George "Read My Lips" H.W. Bush (-10%). The GOP tax cuts were not only unpopular at the time they've become more unpopular as time has passed which is why GOP candidates are not mentioning them in their campaigns but Democratic candidates have been mentioning those tax cuts When the issue of taxation is brought up during campaigns, and it always is, we can be sure that the Democrats will be talking about reversing the 2017 GOP tax cuts for the wealthy that are being paid for with more federal borrowing (deficit spending). In fact they've been talking about this since the day the Republicans proposed the tax cuts. More importantly there's been a fundamental shift that's worth noting. Historically Democrats have always pushed for revisions to the tax codes to increase federal revenues to pay for federal expenditures. They gained a reputation as "tax and spend Democrats" because of their advocacy for increased taxes to pay for increased spending. If taxes are increased to pay for increased spending then deficits don't exist. Historically Republicans have opposed tax increases to fund new or increased authorized expenditures and that causes deficits. Additionally Republicans have often pushed for "revenue neutral" tax cuts (that predominately reduce taxes on the wealthy) while the authorized expenditures continued to increase and that also creates deficits. In 2017 the Republicans discarded the "revenue neutral" requirement for tax cuts and became "Cut, Borrow, and Spend Republicans" as they slashed taxes for the super-wealthy, increased spending, and used borrowing to cover the costs of the tax cuts. That's the cause of the soaring deficits the CBO is projecting. I believe that Democrats are going to address this just like the American people are addressing it in condemning the GOP tax cuts from 2017.
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Hillary and Bill lost in the health care deal but dems never quit no matter how crazy the ideas. While loud talking "tough" Republicans compromise on nearly all their so-called values and don't get much done. And the Right wing voters don't mind much as long as the dems aren't doing it, and the Republican poltics wave the flag, slap the military on the back and talk about "protecting "America". The voters have had chances to really deal with the debt but when it comes down to it most people are in fact satisfied with the status quo BS politicians lying about "balanced budgets", "walls", "family values" and "terrorist". But But but ... he's an isolationist ![]() ![]()
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