Not sure Trump should be calling anyone crazy.
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Well he does have a point. His name is Bernie.
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Except in the real world scenario your kid is already restrained, but an option (lower taxes/regs) is to restrain them less.
Because let’s be honest, that kid is definitely restrained, pols just tinker with how much.
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Agreed. Just don’t think cutting restraints is really an application of force. No problem with your overall point.
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The answer to the question is, it depends on which Democrats are doing the eating.
This one, the chairwoman of the Alabama Democratic Party, will probably do it faster than most.
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I don’t support neither unless they win the nomination which I doubt. I will support the democratic nominee and right now I’m undecided based on the candidates running so far.
But not as fast as this one ate the whole Republican Party.
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It was a joke about the woman’s size. Sorry. I wasn’t referring to beating out every other candidate in the Party, and then winning the general election.
Not always. Everything depends on what the money from tax cuts is used for. And right now, nothing points to the tax cuts having much of an effect. Nothing is happening on the supply side - despite the GOP’s promises, surprise, surprise - and it appears to all be demand side, which were impacted a little bit by the tax cut. Something else is driving demand.
I think the reduction in regulatory burden is having an effect, though. It’s hard to measure, but I think it improves the “animal spirits” of the marketplace in addition to reducing actual costs of businesses.
I think Trump - really the GOP - deserves some credit for the recent good economy, but only a little. They improved market “psychology” to help an already growing economy pick up some pace.
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Possibly semantics, but I’d say lowering taxes is a fundamental way the government can influence the economy. People like to argue lower taxes will result in more jobs, more capital spend, a more robust economy, etc…, but at the end of the day those that benefit still have to choose to do these things.
The same goes for regulations with the caveat that we lose trillions in productivity to regulations and it would be very surprising to me if a reduction in sunk costs didn’t translate into the desirable outcome you mentioned.
The only way the government can force the economy one way of the other, that I can think and that has had some success, is through the manipulation of interest rates and the printing of money. In other words, inflation control.
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Massive handouts and bailouts seem to work amazingly as well. At least for Obama
I don’t know about handouts, but bailouts seem to stabilize or mitigate losses so I suppose it makes sense to count them as well.
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Not POTUS, but election related.
Maybe we finally found some of those fake votes Trump kept harping about
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You should put some of these on shirts. You’d sell out so fast
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I might get political this election…
We have a massive voter fraud problem say Republicans.
Oops.
lolz…!
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