Y'all may want to sit down first

[minx]

cause I know this will be a shock to everyone but Rally.

The 3% growth that Trump and his cronies predicted would happen after the tax cut?
Ain't happening....


www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/us/politics/trump-tax-cut-economic-forecast.html?emc=edit_NN_p_20190320&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=87506272tion%3DtopNews&section=topNews&te=1

I feel obligated to point out up front that this is from the Failing New York Times, and I should also point out that the Democrats did not allow the Republicans to offer to pay businesses rather than tax them, therefore businesses have no incentive to come back home and manufacture here.

Still, I wonder why this tax cut isn't the golden bullet it was advertised to be.  Weird.

[bobathon]

Rigged! Fake news! Obama's fault!

[Dave's Not Here Man]

Lock her up! Drain the swamp! Eat the rich!

[minx]

Warning - DO NOT EAT THE RICH! DO NOT EAT THE RICH!

They are full of fat and bile and you will become sick and then die penniless after the medical corporations have bled you dry for your sin!

[rally2xs]

Yeah, the 3%+ prediction would have been a piece of cake if the Congress would have listened to Trump and given him the 15% corporate tax rate that he wanted - the cut in corporate taxes is what's fueling this, and they only went down to 21%, not 15%.

Go back to the drawing board, listen to Trump this time, and nuke those damned prosperity-killing corporate taxes. 15%. Better yet, 0%. That'll make the economy roar. But 21% corporate tax rate is still sabotage, and it was Congress doing the sabotaging, not DJT.

[rally2xs]

And then there's the other part about what I've been saying, that it's absolutely impossible to prevent additions to the National Debt by fiddling with the income taxes, either lowering or raising them. We've lowered and raised for all my life, and the last time the National Debt did not increase was when I was 10 years old. I'm 71. We're not going to get control of our deficit via the income taxes, no matter what we do. We have to tax other-than-income. We have to abolish income taxes completely to have a chance to do this, since income taxes suppress prosperity. We need the prosperity so people HAVE enough money that they can pay the level of taxes required to keep the National Debt from increasing, and hopefully, at some point, pay it down.