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I'm calling my representatives in Congress to demand a FULL investigation! This is outrageous!
Is he?
Well, firstly he's given tax cuts to the rich. Does this benefit "the lives of ordinary Americans"? Actually the Dem/Rep thing has been increasing income inequality and Trump isn't doing anything to change this.
Smaller businesses are finding it harder and harder and harder to compete with larger businesses, like Walmart, who get massive tax breaks. Trump is also doing nothing to change this.
Boom and bust hurts the poor the most. 7 million people lost their homes in the last recession. Some rich people gained billions out of this recession. Further increasing income inequality in the US.
So, no, the lives of "ordinary Americans" are not getting better IN THE LONG TERM. The short term Trump isn't doing anything to make lives better, it's just getting better because it was a post war historical low and would naturally get better unless destructive policies were put in place.
But in the long term Trump is carrying on the status quo of boom and bust, tax cuts for those who don't need them to make them super competitive and poorer people to struggle with their businesses.
The tax cut was for everyone, not just the rich.
That is the right way that government should and has worked in the past for everyone.
Not target the rich to pay for different groups of small minorities over the majority.
When we all have more of our own money it works for every American.
We all prosper.
We see it working right now for the last 2 years.
No, that's bullshit. At the BEGINNING the tax cut was for everyone. But over time that's going to change.
The problem with "when we all have more of our own money" is that it's not quite true. It's far more complex than that.
Healthcare. Some people have their own money and it doesn't allow them to have proper healthcare. Other people save shit loads because they're paying less in taxes and they can get really nice healthcare.
Also, unregulated capitalism leads to severe boom and bust. Right now the US is in pretty bad territory for boom and bust. It fucks the poor over. Because they're earning money NOW, but in 10 years they might not work for 5 years in a row because there aren't jobs.
Free markets work wherever they are applied in the world.
WIth Free Markets in Mississippi, Magnolia State's Economy Blooms
Said no one since 1930's.
That's from 2018