Great. Tell my why my ins premiums increased by more than double and my deductible went through the roof a year after Obamacare was passed.

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine

A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington

Why is there this constant misrepresentation of the truth by the right when it comes to what "progressive" Democrats want? It's useless to even go into debunking the right-wing myths (e.g. The Democratic Platform for 2016 never called for open borders and no Democrats support open borders).

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"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it's dirty on the inside." Donald Trump

"I always had a rule, if the White House is dirty on the inside, it's dirty on the outside." ShivaTD

Based upon the corruption, brutality, inhumanity, immorality, dishonesty, and incompetence of the Trump administration the White House is the dirtiest house in America and there's no known cleanser that with remove the stains of the Trump Administration.

Well, the PPACA (Obamacare) was passed in 2010 so there's one thing we do know.

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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"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it's dirty on the inside." Donald Trump

"I always had a rule, if the White House is dirty on the inside, it's dirty on the outside." ShivaTD

Based upon the corruption, brutality, inhumanity, immorality, dishonesty, and incompetence of the Trump administration the White House is the dirtiest house in America and there's no known cleanser that with remove the stains of the Trump Administration.

It may not have become effective until 2013, but that didn't stop insurers from beginning to collect excessive premiums as soon as they could to begin to recoup costs that they saw were coming their way.

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine

A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington

I'm not sure these two statements are accurate.

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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"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it's dirty on the inside." Donald Trump

"I always had a rule, if the White House is dirty on the inside, it's dirty on the outside." ShivaTD

Based upon the corruption, brutality, inhumanity, immorality, dishonesty, and incompetence of the Trump administration the White House is the dirtiest house in America and there's no known cleanser that with remove the stains of the Trump Administration.

Given this crazy/Sociopathic president, all things are on the table.Whoda thunk our president would ratting out our intelligence services

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"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By putting our own interests first, with no regard for others, we erase the very thing that a nation holds dearest, and the thing that keeps it alive: its moral values."
French President Emmanuel Macron

Than why are liberals protesting in the streets calling for open borders, free college, and free healthcare? Why are so many Democrat Politian's turning to socialism as a platform? All this stuff is considered "Progressive". You can pretend that is not what the left is doing, but it is very easy to see which way they are going.

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By it's very nature, socialism can only expedite misery, repression, and the death of Liberty.

Cole P. Zail

Gingrich and Clinton managed to make the the budget better back in the day.
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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Hope is the dream of the waking man.
Aristotle

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Job 14:6-8