More of us didn’t than did. More of us would rather give up a massive tax cut than have him spend one more day in office.
{Mumbles curses at Electoral College.}
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Amended that for you.
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We know the drill by now - this is a diversion from something truly awful.
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Increase taxes on the rich. Healthcare for all and free higher education.
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Deficit spending is a hallmark of Republican dogma. When Republicans are in opposition then deficits and debt are the worst thing ever.
“Obama added $21Trillion to the national debt and bankrupted our country!”(Actually it was Bush’s wars that did it but those details aren’t important .)
When Republicans are in power then suddenly “Deficits don’t matter.” - Dick Cheney.
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…the military. Way to bury the lead, fucktrumpet. Oh boy. Y’all better strap in.
And anyway, a tax cut is probably the last freaking thing Americans need.
The Electoral College is supposed to be the last line of defense. It failed and shows why this country is so screwed.
As for the tax cut, it will only be for the wealthy and anyone that isn’t rich is going to get taxed more.
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Not so easy, unfortunately. Because the voting process itself is run by the states, changing anything means a mess on the federal and state level. States with outsized representation aren’t going to want to give that up, either. On the state level right now, we’ve got a number of states looking to massively disenfranchise their own citizens. It ain’t getting fixed any time soon.
The Electoral College exists to support the power of slave states - the whole “last line of defense” was an ad hoc thing that obviously didn’t work, so we can dispense with that pretense.
Oh, but it is soooo much worse with Trump. Republicans may twist the facts to suit (and completely ignore the inconvenient ones), but Trump routinely makes them up wholecloth. His economic projections during the campaign were simply whatever someone else (e.g. Jed) said (which were absurd enough), but multiplied to be bigger. Reality doesn’t come into it. An example I recently read about: Trump decides that China is evil, he explicitly tells Kushner to find information to back that up, Kushner goes on Amazon to find some books, sees the book “Death by China,” and then immediately (and without even reading the book or doing any research on the guy) calls the author up to ask him to be a policy advisor for the administration. It’s utterly insane.
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It’s almost like these people are completely unqualified or something.
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Absolutely agree. That’s why i said “amended” rather than “fixed”.
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Tax-and-Spend Democrats vs. Borrow-and-Spend Republicans. 
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Competition, when it exists, serves as a control on prices. The GOP never saw a merger it didn’t like.
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[quote=“xeni, post:1, topic:99595”]As is Trump’s style, he gave no details about the surprise new tax cut that would require, by definition, mind-bogglingly complex details. Oh well.[/quote]Remember ol’ Herman Cain, with his NINE-NINE-NINE, which some people suggested came from SimCity?
Everyone agreed that it was all perfectly absurd and he abandoned his run with a quote from the Pokemon movie. Good times had by all. Ah, nostalgia.
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No we fucking didn’t.
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Why not take the stupid idea to the max? Eliminate all taxes, including sales and property, and just print money, some fraction of the GDP, to be used for spending. No property tax, no schools wealthier than any other and no better roads whew there is higher tax.
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Still waiting for this buffoon to tease us with something intelligent.
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What’s the statistic on the consolidation of news agency ownership?
What of the number of breakfast goods makers?
I’m not seeing grand conspiricies, just companies that have gotten huge but hide behind ‘oh we have a bunch of brands.’
Then again right now i’m just kinda angry at the world and want the sun to expand and kill us before we expand and infect the rest of the galaxy.
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No no that only works when the poors get more money.
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Surely instituting the largest tax cut in history is fiscally irresponsible while running the largest deficit in history.
Why Republicans are known as fiscally responsible is beyond me.
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