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He got re-elected because people WILL NOT change horses in the middle of the stream and he painted himself as a wartime president, just like I expect Biden to do as soon as he can throw our troops into the Ukraine ----Those "good old days" when conservatives ruled the roost are long gone.
To win a majority these days you need to win indys.
The squishy middle of suburbanites and soccer moms are not the hard asses of long ago.
Dubya got re-elected, by 270 votes, but he got re-elected. IMHO "populism" is the best policy for the GOP going forward.
You're obviously just a liberal masquerading as a conservative.I am a Democrat. I also wanted Trump to win the 2016 Republican primary. This was not because I thought he would be easy for Saunders or Clinton to defeat. It was because he seemed to care about those who had been left behind by the economy of the twenty-first century. Someone described Trump as "a third party candidate running as a Republican."
On of the first things Trump did was to cut taxes for the rich. When he did that I realized that he was governing from the Reagan playbook: he appeals to the social concerns of lower middle class whites and working class whites in order to get the power to make the rich richer.
I had earlier forgiven Trump's graphic flaws of personality, intellect, and character. When Trump cut taxes for the rich I stopped forgiving them.
You're obviously a lying leftwinger.DeSantis is a fake republican aka Fascist Libertarian who pushes way more big government. Their "limited Gov't" is political campaign BS. Nothing small or limited about a fascist government.
The left is doing all the spying on people these days.Well that explains the rightwing indoctrination coming into red state schools. They want our children.
Like their ideological predecessors, they encourage people spy on and report on their neighbors.
I am pessimistic about human nature and human potential. I think there is often wisdom in tradition. Nevertheless, to the extent that I am a conservative, I am without any concern for the well being of the rich. I want rich people and corporations to be heavily taxed.You're obviously just a liberal masquerading as a conservative.
I am a Democrat. I also wanted Trump to win the 2016 Republican primary. This was not because I thought he would be easy for Saunders or Clinton to defeat. It was because he seemed to care about those who had been left behind by the economy of the twenty-first century. Someone described Trump as "a third party candidate running as a Republican."
On of the first things Trump did was to cut taxes for the rich. When he did that I realized that he was governing from the Reagan playbook: he appeals to the social concerns of lower middle class whites and working class whites in order to get the power to make the rich richer.
I had earlier forgiven Trump's graphic flaws of personality, intellect, and character. When Trump cut taxes for the rich I stopped forgiving them.
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What happened to the Republican concern for balanced budgets? Whenever Republicans have the power to do so they cut taxes for the rich. Ronald blithering Reagan cut the top tax rate from 70% to 28%. Consequently the national debt increased from $908 billion in 1980 to $2,602 billion in 1988.What share of the tax cuts went to the rich and the poor? The richest 1 percent received 9.3 percent of the total tax cuts, the top 5 percent got 26.5 percent, the top quintile received 52.2 percent and the bottom quintile got 3.3 percent.
So, the rich received the lion’s share of the tax cut. But they also pay the lion’s share of taxes. The top 1 percent pay 30.2 percent, the top 5 percent pay 51.1 percent, the top quintile pays 80.1 percent and the bottom quintile pays negative 9.0 percent.
Hence, TCJA was progressive as conventionally defined. The rich received less than a proportionate share of TCJA’s total tax cut. The very poor benefited even though they pay negative net taxes.
Did The Rich Get All Of Trump's Tax Cuts?
These questions of intra- and intergenerational fairness are something voters will intensely debate over the coming 16 months. Economists can’t tell them what’s fair. But we can, at long last, provide them with tax analysis they can trust.
Being a democrat, you would of course demonize everything Trump did and somethings that he didn't. How do you give a tax cut to the bottom half of income earners that don't pay taxes in the 1st place? And what most democrats ignore is that even though Trump did cut taxes for the rich, THEY PAID MORE IN TAXES. Revenue from income taxes from them went up, but the democrats bitch about it. How does anyone not understand that when you lower tax rates you incentivize more investments that results in greater econoomic growth?
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If you believe the increase in the national debt during Reagan's time in office was due to his tax cuts then you are sadly mistaken.What happened to the Republican concern for balanced budgets? Whenever Republicans have the power to do so they cut taxes for the rich. Ronald blithering Reagan cut the top tax rate from 70% to 28%. Consequently the national debt increased from $908 billion in 1980 to $2,602 billion in 1988.
US National Debt by Year
The U.S. national debt was over $31 trillion in 2022. In 1930, it was just $16 billion. The biggest impacts have been defense spending, recessions, and recently, the pandemic.www.thebalancemoney.com
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Serious question.
DeSantis has done more than any other candidate or recent president to increase the power of the state over individual rights and no one seems to care. Is conservative ideology changed in terms of using the state to enforce it’s desired social outcome?
1. A 270 vote win says that he wasn't very popularHe got re-elected because people WILL NOT change horses in the middle of the stream and he painted himself as a wartime president, just like I expect Biden to do as soon as he can throw our troops into the Ukraine ---- Bush Jr. was a total failure in that war all along, however. He and the two people who actually ran the government and the war, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
As long as it is their ideology…they don’t care
Example?Serious question. DeSantis has done more than any other candidate or recent president to increase the power of the state over individual rights and no one seems to care.
People voted for the child obsessed Joe Biden so there's no accounting for political taste.
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This is normal to you? Of course you won't respond to your Democrat leader's clear child obsessiveness.
However you won't respond to this and imo... this thread was just created for you to vent against conservatives who have taken the social & cultural fight up after giving it to the left for a generation they completely f'd up.
State power. Get that into you.
Ronald blithering Reagan cut the top tax rate from 70% to 28%.
You better believe it! That was the only vote I EVER cast for a AAAAAAACcccccck Democrat??? and it had to be Kerry?? I learned after that just not to vote. Okay, full disclosure: I didn't MIND Kerry (don't hate me) because forever ago I actually happened to hear live, on the car radio, him making a speech about having thrown his medals over the White House fence. I was good with that, times being what they were. And Bush: losing, losing, losing, losing --- did I mention he lost the war in Iraq? Anyone DISAGREE???1. A 270 vote win says that he wasn't very popular
2. Biden won't throw US troops into Ukraine. He's stupid, but not that stupid. Or unless NATO admits Ukraine first and the US is part of a NATO "peacekeeping" contingent.
1. I'm no Kerry fan, but I have to give the guy credit. He went to VN. I also like his testimony about "who wants to be the last man killed", I think it was the same speech you referenced. I'm not sure why you say we lost the war in Iraq. IMHO Saddam lost, he lost his head. and he lost his slimy larvae sons lost too.You better believe it! That was the only vote I EVER cast for a Democrat??? and it had to be Kerry?? I learned after that just not to vote. Okay, full disclosure: I didn't MIND Kerry (don't hate me) because forever ago I actually happened to hear live, on the car radio, him making a speech about having thrown his medals over the White House fence. I was good with that, times being what they were. And Bush: losing, losing, losing, losing --- did I mention he lost the war in Iraq? Anyone DISAGREE???
2. Biden won't throw US troops into Ukraine. He's stupid, but not that stupid. Or unless NATO admits Ukraine first and the US is part of a NATO "peacekeeping" contingent.
People, wake up and smell the coffee? Biden's only chance of winning in 2024 against ANY Republican is by being a wartime pres. EASY to be a wartime pres: just go fight the war FOR the stupid Ukies who can't do nofin! Yeah, he'll do it, and re-institute conscription, because you KNOW none of these trannies are going to want to fight for Ukraine. And the military canNOT enlist volunteers, not even half of what their goal is. Why not? Because our country is totally lost and deteriorated and fighting is supposed to be left to women and trannies and homos: apparently that's all that's in the Army nowadays so you can see normal men might not be interested any more.
The 1981 - 82 recession was Reagan's recession. Under President Carter there was a shallow, six month recession. Unemployment reached 7.8%. The Reagan recession lasted for sixteen months. Unemployment reached 10.7%. It had not been that high since the Great Depression.Supporters of Reaganomics point to the drop in revenue caused by the 1981-82 recession as one cause of the shortfalls. Another was the 30% increase in U.S. defense spending — which seems to have been a pretty good investment given the subsequent demise of the Soviet Union and accompanying budgetary “peace dividend.”
Cause he's cleaned up Florida and has been the most BASED governor in the nationSerious question. DeSantis has done more than any other candidate or recent president to increase the power of the state over individual rights and no one seems to care. Is conservative ideology changed in terms of using the state to enforce it’s desired social outcome?
Inflation fell faster than anyone expected, so nominal incomes and revenue came in way lower than anyone expected. (The Reagan administration expected a GNP deflator of 36% between 1981 and 1986. Instead, it was 21%.) The Carter administration’s last budget predicted 12.6% inflation in 1981 and 9.6% inflation in 1982. It also predicted each percentage point decline in inflation below its forecasts would reduce tax revenue by $11 billion. Inflation actually came in at 8.9% in 1981 and 3.8% in 1982, suggesting the inflation drop increased the deficits those years by 50%.
Of course, the larger deficits were a tolerable side effect of the successful war on inflation.
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