Side-by-Side Comparison .... Economy

[Spare_change]

(Note: In a probably vain attempt to bring intellect and thought to the election process, I will be posting side-by-side comparisons of the Republican and Democrat positions on critical subjects in the upcoming election. The words posted are directly from the campaigns (though some portions have been removed for brevity.)

REPUBLICANS

1. Tax reform—

• Simplify taxes for everyone and streamline deductions. Biggest tax reform since Reagan.
  
• Lower taxes for everyone, making raising a family more affordable for working families.
  
• Reduce dramatically the income tax.
  
• We will simplify the income tax from 7 brackets to 3 brackets.
  
• Exclude childcare expenses from taxation.
  
• Limit taxation of business income to 15% for every business.
  
• Make our corporate tax globally competitive and the United States the most attractive place to invest in the world.
  
• End the death tax.
  

2. Regulatory reform—

• A temporary pause on new regulations and a review of previous regulations to see which need to be scrapped.
  
• Require each federal agency to prepare a list of all of the regulations they impose on American business, and rank them from most critical to health and safety to least critical. Least critical regulations will receive priority consideration for repeal.
  
• Remove bureaucrats who only know how to kill jobs; replace them with experts who know how to create jobs.
  
• Targeted review for regulations that inhibit hiring. These include:
  
• The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which forces investment in renewable energy at the expense of coal and natural gas, raising electricity rates;
  
• The EPA’s Waters of the United States rule, which gives the EPA the ability to regulate the smallest streams on private land, limiting land use; and
  
• The Department of Interior’s moratorium on coal mining permits, which put tens of thousands of coal miners out of work.
  
• Excessive regulation is costing our country as much as 2 trillion dollars a year, and we will end it.
  

Regulations may have cost us 600,000 small businesses since the start of the recent recession—largely because of new regulations on financing—and some 6 million fewer jobs. The Heritage Foundation has found that the Obama administration has imposed 229 major regulations (those with a cost of $100 million or more) at a cost of $108 billion annually.

3. Trade reform—

• Appoint trade negotiators whose goal will be to win for America: narrowing our trade deficit, increasing domestic production, and getting a fair deal for our workers.
  
• Renegotiate NAFTA.
  
• Withdraw from the TPP.
  
• Bring trade relief cases to the world trade organization.
  
• Label China a currency manipulator.
  
• Apply tariffs and duties to countries that cheat.
  
• Direct the Commerce Department to use all legal tools to respond to trade violations.
  

4. Energy reform—

• Rescind all the job-destroying Obama executive actions including the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.
  
• Save the coal industry and other industries threatened by Hillary Clinton’s extremist agenda.
  
• Ask Trans Canada to renew its permit application for the Keystone Pipeline.
  
• Make land in the Outer Continental Shelf available to produce oil and natural gas.
  
• Cancel the Paris Climate Agreement (limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius) and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.
  
• Lift restrictions on American energy to increase:
  
• Economic output by $700 billion annually over the next 30 years,
  
• Wages by $30 billion annually over the next 7 years,
  
• GDP by more than $20 trillion over the next four decades, and
  
• Tax revenues by an additional $6 trillion over 40 years.
  

5. Other reforms, to be rolled out in the near future —

• Obamacare repeal and replacement
  
• Infrastructure
  
• Childcare
  
• Crime

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/economic-vision


DEMOCRATS

• Restore basic fairness to our tax code.
  
• Close corporate and Wall Street tax loopholes and invest in America.
  
• Simplify and cut taxes for small businesses so they can hire and grow.
  
• Provide tax relief to working families from the rising costs they face.
  
• Pay for ambitious investments in a fiscally responsible way.
  

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/a-fair-tax-system/

A 100-days jobs plan: Break through Washington gridlock to make the boldest investment in good-paying jobs since World War II.

• Make debt free college available to all Americans.
  
• Rewrite the rules so that more companies share profits with employees—and fewer ship profits and jobs overseas.
  
• Make certain that corporations, the wealthy, and Wall Street pay their fair share.
  
• Enact policies that meet the challenges families face in the 21st-century economy.
  

Hillary Clinton on building an economy that works for everyone

 

[Thunderbird]

Of course Hillary won't be making any demands on Wall Street. She will be entirely subservient to Wall Street. They've given her millions of dollars!

Hillary also has supported the current unfair trade system which benefits the elites.


Democrats also talk a lot about free public college. What an awful idea! It would lead to 1) Continued rising education costs 2) Welfare for the rich 3) Continued bureaucratic waste 4) Destruction of colleges not controlled by the government 5) Complete control of academia by the PC thought police.

Hillary is the candidate of the corrupt elites and the status quo.

 

[Thunderbird]

Hillary backs bloated educational bureaucracies instead of offering students & parents choice and opportunity.

Fiorina: How to fix our broken education system? Give every parent and student a choice and a chance. | The Iowa Republican

 

[Spare_change]

The thing I noticed, as I was putting it together --- Trump seems to offer concrete proposals while Clinton's is all fluff. You can disagree with Trump's approach, but Clinton is all rainbows and unicorns. You don't see any discussion about how she's going to pay for the new round of entitlements.

 

[Thunderbird]

A vote for Hillary is a vote for corrupt bankers.

Wall Street For Hillary?:clinton Has $48.5m In Hedge Fund Backing, Compared To Trump's $19k

 

[Spare_change]

A vote for Hillary is a vote for corrupt bankers.

Wall Street For Hillary?:clinton Has $48.5m In Hedge Fund Backing, Compared To Trump's $19k

That which seem ever so obvious is always summarily ignored.

 

[rdean]

(Note: In a probably vain attempt to bring intellect and thought to the election process, I will be posting side-by-side comparisons of the Republican and Democrat positions on critical subjects in the upcoming election. The words posted are directly from the campaigns (though some portions have been removed for brevity.)

REPUBLICANS

1. Tax reform—

• Simplify taxes for everyone and streamline deductions. Biggest tax reform since Reagan.
• Lower taxes for everyone, making raising a family more affordable for working families.
• Reduce dramatically the income tax.
• We will simplify the income tax from 7 brackets to 3 brackets.
• Exclude childcare expenses from taxation.
• Limit taxation of business income to 15% for every business.
• Make our corporate tax globally competitive and the United States the most attractive place to invest in the world.
• End the death tax.

2. Regulatory reform—

• A temporary pause on new regulations and a review of previous regulations to see which need to be scrapped.
• Require each federal agency to prepare a list of all of the regulations they impose on American business, and rank them from most critical to health and safety to least critical. Least critical regulations will receive priority consideration for repeal.
• Remove bureaucrats who only know how to kill jobs; replace them with experts who know how to create jobs.
• Targeted review for regulations that inhibit hiring. These include:
• The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which forces investment in renewable energy at the expense of coal and natural gas, raising electricity rates;
• The EPA’s Waters of the United States rule, which gives the EPA the ability to regulate the smallest streams on private land, limiting land use; and
• The Department of Interior’s moratorium on coal mining permits, which put tens of thousands of coal miners out of work.
• Excessive regulation is costing our country as much as 2 trillion dollars a year, and we will end it.

Regulations may have cost us 600,000 small businesses since the start of the recent recession—largely because of new regulations on financing—and some 6 million fewer jobs. The Heritage Foundation has found that the Obama administration has imposed 229 major regulations (those with a cost of $100 million or more) at a cost of $108 billion annually.

3. Trade reform—

• Appoint trade negotiators whose goal will be to win for America: narrowing our trade deficit, increasing domestic production, and getting a fair deal for our workers.
• Renegotiate NAFTA.
• Withdraw from the TPP.
• Bring trade relief cases to the world trade organization.
• Label China a currency manipulator.
• Apply tariffs and duties to countries that cheat.
• Direct the Commerce Department to use all legal tools to respond to trade violations.

4. Energy reform—

• Rescind all the job-destroying Obama executive actions including the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.
• Save the coal industry and other industries threatened by Hillary Clinton’s extremist agenda.
• Ask Trans Canada to renew its permit application for the Keystone Pipeline.
• Make land in the Outer Continental Shelf available to produce oil and natural gas.
• Cancel the Paris Climate Agreement (limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius) and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.
• Lift restrictions on American energy to increase:
• Economic output by $700 billion annually over the next 30 years,
• Wages by $30 billion annually over the next 7 years,
• GDP by more than $20 trillion over the next four decades, and
• Tax revenues by an additional $6 trillion over 40 years.

5. Other reforms, to be rolled out in the near future —

• Obamacare repeal and replacement
• Infrastructure
• Childcare
• Crime

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/economic-vision


DEMOCRATS

• Restore basic fairness to our tax code.
• Close corporate and Wall Street tax loopholes and invest in America.
• Simplify and cut taxes for small businesses so they can hire and grow.
• Provide tax relief to working families from the rising costs they face.
• Pay for ambitious investments in a fiscally responsible way.

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/a-fair-tax-system/

A 100-days jobs plan: Break through Washington gridlock to make the boldest investment in good-paying jobs since World War II.

• Make debt free college available to all Americans.
• Rewrite the rules so that more companies share profits with employees—and fewer ship profits and jobs overseas.
• Make certain that corporations, the wealthy, and Wall Street pay their fair share.
• Enact policies that meet the challenges families face in the 21st-century economy.

Hillary Clinton on building an economy that works for everyone

Bush on Steroids. Remember the Bush Tax Cuts? 3.4 Trillion? The beginning of our huge debt. From a surplus to trillions in debt.

And then fucking asshole Republicans ask, "Then why did Obama extend them"?

Unemployment benefits: not until Bush tax cuts pass, Senate GOP says

Because he was blackmailed. Democrats care what happens to Americans.

Republicans will fuck over Americans, even their own base, to get what they want, the greedy fucks. And Obama knew it. Better to extend the tax cuts than to do what Republicans threatened. Republicans really are swine.

 

[rdean]

A vote for Hillary is a vote for corrupt bankers.

Wall Street For Hillary?:clinton Has $48.5m In Hedge Fund Backing, Compared To Trump's $19k

Hillary doesn't owe hundreds of millions to the Bank of China, Russia and Wall Street.

Guess who does?

‘Beholden to no one’ Trump owes $650 MILLION to China, and Goldman Sachs!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html?_r=0

For example, an office building on Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, of which Mr. Trump is part owner, carries a $950 million loan. Among the lenders: the Bank of China, one of the largest banks in a country that Mr. Trump has railed against as an economic foe of the United States, and Goldman Sachs, a financial institution he has said controls Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, after it paid her $675,000 in speaking fees.

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The difference, Hillary walks away with the money, owing nothing.

Trump is OWNED.

 

[Spare_change]

A vote for Hillary is a vote for corrupt bankers.

Wall Street For Hillary?:clinton Has $48.5m In Hedge Fund Backing, Compared To Trump's $19k

Hillary doesn't owe hundreds of millions to the Bank of China, Russia and Wall Street.

Guess who does?

‘Beholden to no one’ Trump owes $650 MILLION to China, and Goldman Sachs!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html?_r=0

For example, an office building on Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, of which Mr. Trump is part owner, carries a $950 million loan. Among the lenders: the Bank of China, one of the largest banks in a country that Mr. Trump has railed against as an economic foe of the United States, and Goldman Sachs, a financial institution he has said controls Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, after it paid her $675,000 in speaking fees.

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The difference, Hillary walks away with the money, owing nothing.

Trump is OWNED.

Your ignorance of basic business economics is duly noted, and as a direct result, your comment is rejected.

 

[Spare_change]

(Note: In a probably vain attempt to bring intellect and thought to the election process, I will be posting side-by-side comparisons of the Republican and Democrat positions on critical subjects in the upcoming election. The words posted are directly from the campaigns (though some portions have been removed for brevity.)

REPUBLICANS

1. Tax reform—

• Simplify taxes for everyone and streamline deductions. Biggest tax reform since Reagan.
• Lower taxes for everyone, making raising a family more affordable for working families.
• Reduce dramatically the income tax.
• We will simplify the income tax from 7 brackets to 3 brackets.
• Exclude childcare expenses from taxation.
• Limit taxation of business income to 15% for every business.
• Make our corporate tax globally competitive and the United States the most attractive place to invest in the world.
• End the death tax.

2. Regulatory reform—

• A temporary pause on new regulations and a review of previous regulations to see which need to be scrapped.
• Require each federal agency to prepare a list of all of the regulations they impose on American business, and rank them from most critical to health and safety to least critical. Least critical regulations will receive priority consideration for repeal.
• Remove bureaucrats who only know how to kill jobs; replace them with experts who know how to create jobs.
• Targeted review for regulations that inhibit hiring. These include:
• The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which forces investment in renewable energy at the expense of coal and natural gas, raising electricity rates;
• The EPA’s Waters of the United States rule, which gives the EPA the ability to regulate the smallest streams on private land, limiting land use; and
• The Department of Interior’s moratorium on coal mining permits, which put tens of thousands of coal miners out of work.
• Excessive regulation is costing our country as much as 2 trillion dollars a year, and we will end it.

Regulations may have cost us 600,000 small businesses since the start of the recent recession—largely because of new regulations on financing—and some 6 million fewer jobs. The Heritage Foundation has found that the Obama administration has imposed 229 major regulations (those with a cost of $100 million or more) at a cost of $108 billion annually.

3. Trade reform—

• Appoint trade negotiators whose goal will be to win for America: narrowing our trade deficit, increasing domestic production, and getting a fair deal for our workers.
• Renegotiate NAFTA.
• Withdraw from the TPP.
• Bring trade relief cases to the world trade organization.
• Label China a currency manipulator.
• Apply tariffs and duties to countries that cheat.
• Direct the Commerce Department to use all legal tools to respond to trade violations.

4. Energy reform—

• Rescind all the job-destroying Obama executive actions including the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.
• Save the coal industry and other industries threatened by Hillary Clinton’s extremist agenda.
• Ask Trans Canada to renew its permit application for the Keystone Pipeline.
• Make land in the Outer Continental Shelf available to produce oil and natural gas.
• Cancel the Paris Climate Agreement (limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius) and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.
• Lift restrictions on American energy to increase:
• Economic output by $700 billion annually over the next 30 years,
• Wages by $30 billion annually over the next 7 years,
• GDP by more than $20 trillion over the next four decades, and
• Tax revenues by an additional $6 trillion over 40 years.

5. Other reforms, to be rolled out in the near future —

• Obamacare repeal and replacement
• Infrastructure
• Childcare
• Crime

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/economic-vision


DEMOCRATS

• Restore basic fairness to our tax code.
• Close corporate and Wall Street tax loopholes and invest in America.
• Simplify and cut taxes for small businesses so they can hire and grow.
• Provide tax relief to working families from the rising costs they face.
• Pay for ambitious investments in a fiscally responsible way.

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/a-fair-tax-system/

A 100-days jobs plan: Break through Washington gridlock to make the boldest investment in good-paying jobs since World War II.

• Make debt free college available to all Americans.
• Rewrite the rules so that more companies share profits with employees—and fewer ship profits and jobs overseas.
• Make certain that corporations, the wealthy, and Wall Street pay their fair share.
• Enact policies that meet the challenges families face in the 21st-century economy.

Hillary Clinton on building an economy that works for everyone

Bush on Steroids. Remember the Bush Tax Cuts? 3.4 Trillion? The beginning of our huge debt. From a surplus to trillions in debt.

And then fucking asshole Republicans ask, "Then why did Obama extend them"?

Unemployment benefits: not until Bush tax cuts pass, Senate GOP says

Because he was blackmailed. Democrats care what happens to Americans.

Republicans will fuck over Americans, even their own base, to get what they want, the greedy fucks. And Obama knew it. Better to extend the tax cuts than to do what Republicans threatened. Republicans really are swine.

So, was that during the time that the Dems controlled both sides of Congress AND the presidency? Maybe we should just ignore that, huh?

 

[KissMy]

Trump will hit workers with massive inflation tax while value of all the assets of the wealthy owners like Trump soar. Enjoy slavery & serving your Kings!

 

[Thunderbird]

The difference, Hillary walks away with the money, owing nothing.

What??? You think politicians don't serve the big contributors?? Are you really this stupid?

Trump is OWNED.

People who loan you money are paid. Do you know what interest is? They don't control you. If you get a car loan does the bank tell you how to live your life? Do you always spout nonsense?

 

[Spare_change]

Trump will hit workers with massive inflation tax while value of all the assets of the wealthy owners like Trump soar. Enjoy slavery & serving your Kings!

Inflation and tax are mutually exclusive terms ... please try to at least SOUND like you know what you're talking about.

 

[Spare_change]

A vote for Hillary is a vote for corrupt bankers.

Wall Street For Hillary?:clinton Has $48.5m In Hedge Fund Backing, Compared To Trump's $19k

Hillary doesn't owe hundreds of millions to the Bank of China, Russia and Wall Street.

Guess who does?

‘Beholden to no one’ Trump owes $650 MILLION to China, and Goldman Sachs!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html?_r=0

For example, an office building on Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, of which Mr. Trump is part owner, carries a $950 million loan. Among the lenders: the Bank of China, one of the largest banks in a country that Mr. Trump has railed against as an economic foe of the United States, and Goldman Sachs, a financial institution he has said controls Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, after it paid her $675,000 in speaking fees.

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The difference, Hillary walks away with the money, owing nothing.

Trump is OWNED.

I'm reminded of a business associate who put together a leveraged $10 million loan. When I asked him how he could sleep at night knowing he owed somebody $10 million, he said he sleeps just fine cuz it ain't his money. His banker, on the other hand, lays awake every night.

 

[Thunderbird]

Bush on Steroids. Remember the Bush Tax Cuts? 3.4 Trillion? The beginning of our huge debt. From a surplus to trillions in debt.

You know the debt has sky rocketed under Obama, right?

And then fucking asshole Republicans ask, "Then why did Obama extend them"?

Unemployment benefits: not until Bush tax cuts pass, Senate GOP says

Because he was blackmailed.

I guess you forgot Obama had a Democratic majority congress at the time.

Why are you so gullible?

Democrats care what happens to Americans.

Ha ha ha

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year, perks questioned in new book

 

[Thunderbird]

Bush on Steroids. Remember the Bush Tax Cuts? 3.4 Trillion? The beginning of our huge debt. From a surplus to trillions in debt.

By the way it's entitlement spending that is driving the deficit.

Blame Spending, Not Tax Cuts, For Deficit

But don't let the facts interfere with your blind partisan rage.