Does anyone actually know what an “opportunity economy” is?

[Dante]

You think he came up with those plans?

they're weirdly crazy on this

 

[rightwinger]

Covid supplies.... rebuild the Obama military and disaster relief and a vaccine....

Tax cuts for billionaires who don’t need it

 

[Dante]

Kamala repeatedly touted her plan to create an “opportunity economy”. She never elaborated beyond saying she’d give $6k to new parents for cribs and $25k to home buyers for a down payment. Where will all this money come from? Is “opportunity economy” just another butchering of the language in substitution of “Marxist wealth redistribution”?

opportunity economy:

Vice President Kamala Harris says she has a plan for America's middle class— building an "Opportunity Economy" to help them succeed.

The term appeared on Harris' campaign website on Sunday evening, accompanying a policy platform addressing issues like abortion, crime, healthcare, housing, and national security.

"Vice President Harris grew up in a middle class home as the daughter of a working mom. She believes that when the middle class is strong, America is strong," the Harris campaign wrote in a section titled "Build an Opportunity Economy and Lower Costs for Families."

"That's why as President, Kamala Harris will create an Opportunity Economy where everyone has a chance to compete and a chance to succeed — whether they live in a rural area, small town, or big city."

• Kamala Harris has a vision of an 'Opportunity Economy' for America's middle class.
• Her plan includes tax cuts for families and small businesses and going after price-gouging.
• Experts predict Harris' policies could boost economic growth, but voters remain skeptical.

 

[Rambunctious]

A myth

Jobs and benefits are tied to an expansion of the free market
If people are buying your goods and services, you don’t cut your number of employees
Give the wealthy a tax cut and they just keep it.
They don’t pass it on in more jobs and higher pay

You can't give the wealthy a tax cut unless they are working or own a business.... if you make it harder for them to run their business they will close the doors... watch some videos on what Newsom has done to California... its the same thing that Kamala will do to America....

 

[Rambunctious]

Tax cuts for billionaires who don’t need it

If the Billionaire isn't earning you can't cut their taxes... a lot of billionaires don't work anymore and many own their own business that provides jobs for the middle class...

 

[Dante]

Covid supplies.... rebuild the Obama military and disaster relief and a vaccine....

WSJ Editorial Board - Feb 22, 2024

Trump Didn’t Rebuild the Military​

His first-term defense record isn’t nearly as good as his current claims.​

Even back 4 years ago:
FactCheck Posts

Trump’s False Military Equipment Claim ​

By Lori Robertson
Posted on July 2, 2020

President Donald Trump has falsely claimed his administration invested “$2.5 trillion in all of the greatest equipment in the world” for the military. That’s approximately the total for defense budgets from 2017 to 2020, but the cost of purchasing new military equipment was 20% of that.

It’s true the Defense Department budgets passed under Trump — which total $2.9 trillion, in inflation-adjusted dollars, actually — have been larger than they were in the latter years of his predecessor. In the last four years under then-President Barack Obama, the defense budgets, in inflation-adjusted dollars, totaled $2.7 trillion, but the budgets in Obama’s first four years were nearly $3.3 trillion.

Those are the budget authority figures — the amounts Congress appropriated — from the Defense Department comptroller’s budget report released this year. (Note: The fiscal 2009 defense budget was signed by then-President George W. Bush four months before Obama took office. The fiscal 2017 budget, which began on Oct. 1, 2016, when Obama was still in office, was signed by Trump.)

 

[1srelluc]

You can bet that it does not include white males.

 

[Dante]

You can't give the wealthy a tax cut unless they are working or own a business.... if you make it harder for them to run their business they will close the doors... watch some videos on what Newsom has done to California... its the same thing that Kamala will do to America....

okay

 

[rightwinger]

You can't give the wealthy a tax cut unless they are working or own a business.... if you make it harder for them to run their business they will close the doors... watch some videos on what Newsom has done to California... its the same thing that Kamala will do to America....

The super wealthy don’t work or run a business.
They make their money on investments

 

[Rambunctious]

The super wealthy don’t work or run a business.
They make their money on investments

If they have earnings they can be taxed... but you are not going to pay down our deficit with that... what will happen is you will hurt job creators... and that's bad for middle income folks...

 

[rightwinger]

If they have earnings they can be taxed... but you are not going to pay down our deficit with that... what will happen is you will hurt job creators... and that's bad for middle income folks...

Job creators my ass

They don’t turn tax cuts into more jobs
They just keep the money

Middle class will put the money back into the economy

 

[Rawley]

The wealthy makes money off of every one of those jobs.

It is the workers who create wealth

And get paid for it.

 

[Rawley]

Job creators my ass

They don’t turn tax cuts into more jobs
They just keep the money

Middle class will put the money back into the economy

And the wealthy hide their money in their mattresses? Is that a Harris theory?

 

[rightwinger]

And the wealthy hide their money in their mattresses? Is that a Harris theory?

No, it is placed in investments where they pay lower taxes on their gains then earned income

Investments don’t create wealth
They move wealth from one place to another

Workers create wealth

 

[Rawley]

No, it is placed in investments where they pay lower taxes on their gains then earned income

Investments don’t create wealth
They move wealth from one place to another

Interesting theory. If you don't make any $ on your investments ..... time to get a new investment advisor.

Workers create wealth

And get paid for it.

 

[toobfreak]

Kamala repeatedly touted her plan to create an “opportunity economy”. She never elaborated.

It means more doling out handouts to people with taxpayer money the fed borrows for the opportunity of buying yet more voters for more handouts, which as usual, never work anyway, just like Solyndra.

 

[candycorn]

Just another feelz good phrase that means absolutely nothing.

Exactly what “Make America Great Again” is....

The difference is that the opportunity economy is based on capitalizing on the emerging technologies. For example, turbine repair. Installing charging stations. Installing solar panels. Repairing electric motors in the EVs. The economy is evolving despite you guys throwing a four year tantrum. There are opportunities to evolve with it.

 

[Orangecat]

They don’t turn tax cuts into more jobs
They just keep the money

Keep it for what? Wallpapering the spare bathroom?

 

[Foxfyre]

Kamala repeatedly touted her plan to create an “opportunity economy”. She never elaborated beyond saying she’d give $6k to new parents for cribs and $25k to home buyers for a down payment. Where will all this money come from? Is “opportunity economy” just another butchering of the language in substitution of “Marxist wealth redistribution”?

"Opportunity economy" is the current propaganda to sound wonderful and cover up absolutely no plan to make things better but lots of intention to further the same indefensible strategies and initiatives that put us in the economic mess we are in.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Tax breaks to the middle class instead of to the wealthy

The Democrats must love the middle class, because they fxck them every chance that they get.