TGHusker Posted October 4, 2019 Author Share Posted October 4, 2019 On 10/2/2019 at 6:01 PM, commando said: oh look.....impose tariffs on wine and then jr tweets this Follow the money and you'll understand the policy. Emoluments clause anyone?? 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 In fairness, literally everyone saw this coming... 1 3 Link to comment
deedsker Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 3 hours ago, knapplc said: In fairness, literally everyone saw this coming... Outside of Trump's lies, I don't think any experts thought otherwise. Link to comment
Moiraine Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Just playing devil’s advocate - tariffs, even if they worked great, were always going to take a long time to work. It was always going to burden us in the short term. But that’s kind of the problem with them. We couldn’t just go back and immediately start a bunch of factories up, and the people who might have the $ for that can’t trust that it will be worth it in the long run. But Trump of course is a moron who doesn’t understand tariffs or trade deficits and he probably thought it would have an immediate impact. But he doesn’t even know what to look for when it comes to impact. 2 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 19 minutes ago, Moiraine said: Just playing devil’s advocate - tariffs, even if they worked great, were always going to take a long time to work. It was always going to burden us in the short term. But that’s kind of the problem with them. We couldn’t just go back and immediately start a bunch of factories up, and the people who might have the $ for that can’t trust that it will be worth it in the long run. But Trump of course is a moron who doesn’t understand tariffs or trade deficits and he probably thought it would have an immediate impact. But he doesn’t even know what to look for when it comes to impact. I would not have as big of problems with the tariffs if they were being implemented by someone who is honest with the American people in saying..."China is doing XYZ and we need to get them to stop. So, in the short term, unfortunately we need to do these tariffs in which may raise the cost of some items to Americans". But, we don't have that. Let's be honest, China is doing things with our Intellectual property that needs to stop. We just have an idiot in office that doesn't have a clue on how to get them to stop. 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 I'm old enough to remember when one of our very own HuskerBoardians boasted about this amazing tax plan in a Status Update - in violation of board rules, but hey, who's concerned about that? Funny story. That tax plan is killing our economy. 4 2 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 The economy is slowing down, too. The tax cuts are running out of juice. 2 Link to comment
deedsker Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Member when Trump said he was going to get higher growth rates. Yeah, those were lies. Linky Link Quote "So we're at 3.3 percent GDP. I see no reason why we don't go to 4 percent, 5 percent, and even 6 percent."-Donald Trump, President 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 2 hours ago, deedsker said: Member when Trump said he was going to get higher growth rates. Yeah, those were lies. Linky Link He didn't lie about that anymore than Obama lied when he said you'd get to keep your plan/doctor. He just said a thing that didn't end up happening. Problem is Trump did that about 100x as many things as Obama. 1 Link to comment
deedsker Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Moiraine said: He didn't lie about that anymore than Obama lied when he said you'd get to keep your plan/doctor. He just said a thing that didn't end up happening. Problem is Trump did that about 100x as many things as Obama. Technically plans were supposed to be grandfathered in and insurance companies not meeting the standards had to cancel plans. It was half true. Predicting what was considered double the best case projection on growth is just wrong. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 2 hours ago, deedsker said: Technically plans were supposed to be grandfathered in and insurance companies not meeting the standards had to cancel plans. It was half true. Predicting what was considered double the best case projection on growth is just wrong. And trump stupidly really thought he could grow the economy 5-6%. both were stupid promises. Link to comment
teachercd Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Guys, don't worry about the economy! All the super rich people said they are going to give up their money to help! #ProblemSolved #RichPersonBailOut Link to comment
Moiraine Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 11 hours ago, deedsker said: Technically plans were supposed to be grandfathered in and insurance companies not meeting the standards had to cancel plans. It was half true. Predicting what was considered double the best case projection on growth is just wrong. 9 hours ago, BigRedBuster said: And trump stupidly really thought he could grow the economy 5-6%. both were stupid promises. Yep. I'm fairly sure Trump really thought it would happen. Obama's Black, so obviously Trump thought it would be easy to do a lot better. Link to comment
knapplc Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Apparently GOP voters really just want the wealthy to pay less taxes. Such a charitable group! 2 Link to comment
deedsker Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 1 hour ago, knapplc said: Apparently GOP voters really just want the wealthy to pay less taxes. Such a charitable group! Just think of how hard they have it. You get so much condemnation for having so much money as everyone tries to come get their piece. It is only fair that they get lower rates! Link to comment
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