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Re: What difference at this point does it make?

By: DigSpace in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 12 Oct 16 6:48 AM | 49 view(s)
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yes on the court

on tax reform, I hope we all know that HRC would love to lower the corporate tax rate, and it would not be the right that would stop her ... can she trade higher personal income tax on the wealthy to lower the corporate rate? (and scuttle the capital gains distinction that very dissproportionately benefits people that make oodles in stocks, in things like WAVX ;)

HRC is is a moderate republican, as was Bill. NAFTA, welfare reform (welfare cuts), tough on crime (basically filling jails with black marijuana peddlers), and a bit of a military hawk including Bosnia, Libya, etc.

Might be able to figure something out with ACA, I like public option but it is an amazingly big can of worms to bump medicare down to say 55 yr olds as an option.

bottom line- the USA needs to raise taxes. It seems to do best when federal revenue is arround 18.5% of GDP. At 18.5% it can do things and pay for what it does.

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By: tkc in ALEA
Tue, 11 Oct 16 10:07 PM 		Msg. 19787 of 54959

As opposed to Trump the difference is humungous. A Clinton win assures a change in the balance of SCOTUS and that's a big deal. The GoP won't have control of all three branches of the federal government and that's huge. But legislatively gridlock will remain, strong as ever. No way the GoP will allow HRC any wins that negatively effect them in 2018. Change in the tax code? Doubtage. An infrastructure bill to repair or replace & add jobs, spuring economic growth? Nah. Immigration? No chance. The ownerous student loan, college costs problem? Ain't gonna happen if it costs $. There might be a sliver of hope to address the ACA issues. And of course the oval office will be occupied by a bright,sane, level headed woman (the woman part is a monumental change) compared to Trump. In sum, in spite of all the political bs proposed dreams of HRC, I doubt we'll see any difference from status quo legislatively. There's hope a new SCOTUS could overturn "citizens united" and end infringement of voting rights law.


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