The principle of trickle down, southern strategy, running against welfare queens, invading Iraq, and now cruelty, massive corruption, Treason, and sabotage of efforts to respond to the virus — those principles?
Nonpartisan analysts like Moody’s Analytics and the not-exactly-socialist economists at Goldman Sachs are remarkably high on Biden’s proposals.
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Republicans also have a long history of claiming that progressive policies would lead to economic disaster. They’ve been wrong every time.
They’ve been wrong about tax hikes: When Clinton raised taxes in 1993, Republicans confidently predicted recession, but what actually happened was a huge boom.
When California raised taxes under Jerry Brown, the right called it “economic suicide”; again, the economy boomed.
They’ve also been wrong about social programs. Obamacare, the G.O.P. insisted, would destroy millions of jobs.
One of the dozens of attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act was actually called the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.”
Yet in the six years after January 2014, when the act went into full effect, the economy added almost 15 million jobs.
And let’s not forget the flip side, the many, many times Republicans promised that cutting taxes on the rich would produce an economic miracle, promises that never came true.
There’s a reason conservatives still go on and on about the Reagan boom, all those years ago; it’s the only example they have that even seems to support their economic ideology. (It doesn’t, but that’s another topic.)
But there’s a difference between saying that progressive policies are not the disaster conservatives claim and saying that Biden’s plan would actually promote growth.
Why are Moody’s and Goldman Sachs so high on his proposals? ✁
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Biden’s plan would roll back that corporate tax cut, replacing it with spending programs likely to yield much more bang for the buck. In particular, much of the spending would be on infrastructure and education — that is, outlays aimed at strengthening the economy in the long run, as well as boosting it over the next few years.
At least it’s not just us, Fwiw… Germany’s Far Right Reunified, Too, Making It Much Stronger https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/world/europe/germany-reunification-far-right.html
Directly in regard to Carmen’s “Party of Principles” – this repost…
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Stevens went even further: “It was all a lie.” He noted that this was word-for-word the title of his forthcoming book, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.
The modern GOP, he said, never truly cared about the ideas it claimed to care about.
This was a stunning indictment coming from a longtime political consultant who had toiled on five Republican presidential campaigns and numerous Senate and gubernatorial races.
“The Republican Party has been a cartel,” Stevens said excitedly.
“And no one asks a cartel, ‘What’s your ideological purpose?’ You don’t ask OPEC, ‘What’s your ideology?’ You don’t ask a drug gang, ‘What’s your program?’
The Republicans exist for the pursuit of power for no purpose.”
He huffed that the Republican Party had not merely drifted away from its core positions, as sometimes occurs with political parties: “Fair trade, balanced budgets, character, family values, standing up to foreign adversaries like Russia—we’re all against that now.
You have to ask, ‘Does someone abandon deeply held beliefs in three or four years?’
No. It means you didn’t ever hold them.”
He added: “I feel like a guy who was working for Bernie Madoff.”
The Republican party say they believe in less government. But it seem they mean less government for businesses. Because when it comes to an individual’s private life they’re always sticking their noses into it.
He has been running amuck and doing what no other Republican dare do directly. He is a Republican through and through unrestrained. Why they follow that Orange Messianic Hitler Bandersnatch of a man.
braindead Premium Member about 4 years ago
Party of prinicple?
The principle of trickle down, southern strategy, running against welfare queens, invading Iraq, and now cruelty, massive corruption, Treason, and sabotage of efforts to respond to the virus — those principles?
KenseidenXL about 4 years ago
Actually, the GOP hasn’t had any principles, beyond kissing the asses of the super-rich, since 1868….
Sanspareil about 4 years ago
Party of (supposed) principle is the party of trump’s death cult!
oldchas about 4 years ago
Ketchup as a vegetable because poor kids don’t need to eat.
Ignatz Premium Member about 4 years ago
They were ALWAYS principles of convenience.
The “party of fiscal responsibility” has been increasing deficits since Reagan.
Silly Season about 4 years ago
Nonpartisan analysts like Moody’s Analytics and the not-exactly-socialist economists at Goldman Sachs are remarkably high on Biden’s proposals.
✁Republicans also have a long history of claiming that progressive policies would lead to economic disaster. They’ve been wrong every time.
They’ve been wrong about tax hikes: When Clinton raised taxes in 1993, Republicans confidently predicted recession, but what actually happened was a huge boom.
When California raised taxes under Jerry Brown, the right called it “economic suicide”; again, the economy boomed.
They’ve also been wrong about social programs. Obamacare, the G.O.P. insisted, would destroy millions of jobs.
One of the dozens of attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act was actually called the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.”
Yet in the six years after January 2014, when the act went into full effect, the economy added almost 15 million jobs.
And let’s not forget the flip side, the many, many times Republicans promised that cutting taxes on the rich would produce an economic miracle, promises that never came true.
There’s a reason conservatives still go on and on about the Reagan boom, all those years ago; it’s the only example they have that even seems to support their economic ideology. (It doesn’t, but that’s another topic.)
But there’s a difference between saying that progressive policies are not the disaster conservatives claim and saying that Biden’s plan would actually promote growth.
Why are Moody’s and Goldman Sachs so high on his proposals? ✁
✁Biden’s plan would roll back that corporate tax cut, replacing it with spending programs likely to yield much more bang for the buck. In particular, much of the spending would be on infrastructure and education — that is, outlays aimed at strengthening the economy in the long run, as well as boosting it over the next few years.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/opinion/trump-biden-economic-policy.html
William Robbins Premium Member about 4 years ago
At least it’s not just us, Fwiw… Germany’s Far Right Reunified, Too, Making It Much Stronger https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/world/europe/germany-reunification-far-right.html
Silly Season about 4 years ago
Directly in regard to Carmen’s “Party of Principles” – this repost…
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Stevens went even further: “It was all a lie.” He noted that this was word-for-word the title of his forthcoming book, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.
The modern GOP, he said, never truly cared about the ideas it claimed to care about.
This was a stunning indictment coming from a longtime political consultant who had toiled on five Republican presidential campaigns and numerous Senate and gubernatorial races.
“The Republican Party has been a cartel,” Stevens said excitedly.
“And no one asks a cartel, ‘What’s your ideological purpose?’ You don’t ask OPEC, ‘What’s your ideology?’ You don’t ask a drug gang, ‘What’s your program?’
The Republicans exist for the pursuit of power for no purpose.”
He huffed that the Republican Party had not merely drifted away from its core positions, as sometimes occurs with political parties: “Fair trade, balanced budgets, character, family values, standing up to foreign adversaries like Russia—we’re all against that now.
You have to ask, ‘Does someone abandon deeply held beliefs in three or four years?’
No. It means you didn’t ever hold them.”
He added: “I feel like a guy who was working for Bernie Madoff.”
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/racism-republican-party-stuart-stevens/
nosirrom about 4 years ago
The Republican party say they believe in less government. But it seem they mean less government for businesses. Because when it comes to an individual’s private life they’re always sticking their noses into it.
sandflea about 4 years ago
Same thing that happened to the party of morals. ethics, and family values.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 4 years ago
He has been running amuck and doing what no other Republican dare do directly. He is a Republican through and through unrestrained. Why they follow that Orange Messianic Hitler Bandersnatch of a man.