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Trump’s Mirage of Spending Cuts Will Make America’s Collapse Great

In the first debate, Hillary Clinton called Trump’s tax plan “trumped-up, trickle-down” economics. It’s the one thing that came out of her mouth that I had to entirely agree with. Many others are saying it, too:   New analysis from a nonpartisan group finds that Donald Trump’s latest tax proposals would increase the federal debt […]

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Trump Tax Plan Turns the Donald into Trickle-Down King

If George Bush Senior thought Reaganomics was “voodoo economics,” he’d think the Trump tax plan was its kachina doll, and if GB Minor had been smoking weed while popping magic mushrooms when he made his eponymous tax cuts, the Bush Tax Cuts might have come out looking like the Wall-Street tax Fantasia that Trump’s peeps have brewed up — a […]

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Trump: Trojan Horse for the Establishment or Mighty Mouth for Mankind?

I crave the opportunity to see an anti-establishment candidate win the election. I would exult in seeing our corrupt establishment shattered. So, while I do not like Trump the man (as it would appear he has never done anything that didn’t entirely serve his own self-interest and pompous ego), I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing him upset establishment Republicans and establishment […]

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Republicans plan to solve wage stagnation and entitlements … on your back

Establishment Republicans have a plan to help workers because they hear you after all the clamor that has formed around Donald Trump. That is how they bill it anyway — a plan to help laborers. They have heard through their marble walls that some of you are not happy with wages that have been stagnant for decades. So, […]

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Consumer Spending Returns to Old Deficit Habits

Not all the news was Greek. The U.S. consumer spending report this week showed that consumer spending is up even though consumer confidence is at its lowest point in two and a half years. GDP supposedly returned to pre-recession levels, too. That came with the caveat from Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, that the rise […]

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U.S. Budget Cuts – Always Letting the Future Solve Our Problems

Decade after decade, U.S. budget cuts have attempted to balance the budget in years far ahead. It’s become the American way. Congress always puts the austerity part of the program out where someone other than us can feel the pain for us or where some other congress can take the heat. We’re noble that way. […]

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