Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

The tax cuts have spurred economic growth and could result in a 4% annual GDP growth rate.

Corporations are bringing hundreds of billions of dollars in profits back as a direct result of changes in the corporate tax laws — 12% of the nearly $3 trillion held overseas came back to the U.S. in just the first three months of 2018. That will mean more economic growth and additional corporate revenues. (link below)

Revenues to the Treasury in 2018 so far the fiscal year— which started last October — all federal revenues are up by $31 billion. That's a 1.2% in increase over last year, the CBO says.

As I said before, we have a SPENDING problem. BOTH parties are to blame. The tax cuts have worked by bringing in more revenues to the Treasury.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/income-tax-revenues-trump-tax-cuts-economic-growth/

Is there a stat that accounts for the change in employment? If I add jobs I also increase tax revenue. So are the added jobs the result of lower corporate taxes? Or just the result of the usual economic cycle? Were we headed to sub 4% unemployment regardless of the corporate tax breaks?

What happens when the economy reverses? What happens then when unemployment goes back up even though we have all of these corporate tax breaks in effect?

Totally agree about both parties being to blame but you can’t say ONE THING is the result of increased tax revenues when there are multiple things at play.

Alan

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

The tax cuts have spurred economic growth and could result in a 4% annual GDP growth rate.

Corporations are bringing hundreds of billions of dollars in profits back as a direct result of changes in the corporate tax laws — 12% of the nearly $3 trillion held overseas came back to the U.S. in just the first three months of 2018. That will mean more economic growth and additional corporate revenues. (link below)

Revenues to the Treasury in 2018 so far the fiscal year— which started last October — all federal revenues are up by $31 billion. That's a 1.2% in increase over last year, the CBO says.

As I said before, we have a SPENDING problem. BOTH parties are to blame. The tax cuts have worked by bringing in more revenues to the Treasury.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/income-tax-revenues-trump-tax-cuts-economic-growth/

1) You are bragging about a 1.2% increase over a year ago. This, at a time when annual inflation is running at 2.9%. So, real revenues are down by 1%+ and you are impressed by this "growth" in revenue?

2) It is patently absurd, and frankly disingenuous, to talk about a SPENDING problem as being THE problem. Yes, there may well be a spending problem. But it is irresponsible and immoral to not have revenues roughly match spending. The GOP, if it were honest, would campaign on "Vote GOP. To hell with paying our own bills when we can just pass them off to our grandchildren!"

Democrats are sick wrote:

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/09/11/man-assaults-republican-congressional-candidate-switchblade-castro-valley/

Democrats are disgusting pieces of trash.

Trump Republicans are far more disgusting pieces of trash.

Swing Time wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Complacency and arrogance DID help cost Democrats the election in 2016. I agree with that and have said so several times. Unfortunately, cheating with Russia helped too.

The smarter and better stuff from me is just a goof, brother.

How much did the Russia cheating help and what was the actual "cheating"?

It is impossible to say in any way (to quantify) HOW MUCH the Russian cheating helped. Just like asking how much did the PED help Ben Johnson win the gold. How much? We can never know. There are laws in place that are not supposed to be broken, and they are there for a reason.

Since you are asking WHAT the cheating was, you are either in denial that the cheating existed OR you are ignorant on the subject.

The cheating we are very clear on is the Trump Tower meeting. That was collusion or what will likely be deemed Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. Roger Stone is still being looked at very closely regarding possible coordination with Wikileaks which all has ties to Russia. There will be more things too, and it is extremely likely that Trump himself will be charged with a computer hacking crime among other things.

Don't be in denial. Don't passively or actively support Trump...unless you want to be a bad person. He is clearly not up to the task of the job. He's a serial liar and a criminal who is currently an unindicted co-conspirator to commit felony campaign finance law violation (another way to cheat by the way). Obama's team was charged with a campaign finance law violation, but it was of the non-felony type, and Obama himself was not involved personally as Trump is...again for FELONY campaign finance law violations...two cases.

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

As I said before, we have a SPENDING problem. BOTH parties are to blame. The tax cuts have worked by bringing in more revenues to the Treasury.

It has been established that both parties are equally responsible for the SPENDING problem.

Which leaves us with one distinction:

Dems want us to pay for the SPENDING.

Repubs want our grandchildren to pay for the SPENDING.

Which one seems like a more honest and moral approach to you.

538 finally has its senate forecast out. Dems chance of taking the senate are at 34.3%.

Trollminator wrote:

L L wrote:

I just see these corporations taking their big tax cuts and buying their own stock back. That increases the wealth of the remaining shareholders.

They didn't give out raises to the workers any different than the norm.

This is it. There is no such thing as generosity in capitalism.

CORRECT!

One of the companies I consult for recently asked my opinion on raise percentages for their employees. The potential raises had nothing to do with the tax cuts and ONLY to do with the very low unemployment rate, and they needed to know what level of raises to give to keep them from going to another company.

And no, none of Trump's policies caused this unemployment low rate. Rate has been dropping steadily since it peaked at 10% in 2010 after the Great Recession. Typical reaction to a rebound from a horrible recession coupled with lots of Baby Boomers continuing to retire.

Fat hurts wrote:

538 finally has its senate forecast out. Dems chance of taking the senate are at 34.3%.

Hmm

That's about the same chance they gave Trump to win two years ago.

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

Now, get Flagpole to stop posting 15X a day.

[read in Napoleon Dynamite's voice]

I'll do whatever I feel like I want to do. Gosh!

L L wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

538 finally has its senate forecast out. Dems chance of taking the senate are at 34.3%.

Hmm

That's about the same chance they gave Trump to win two years ago.

Maybe if the Democrats conspire with Russia, they can get it done!

I will be surprised if the Democrats take the Senate (the House happens for sure). Even if they do, that doesn't allow them on party line votes alone to convict Trump. His removal from office lies on the Mueller and/or SDNY investigations and their (especially Mueller's) timely report release.

I still maintain and predict that Mueller's report comes out with enough time to impeach and remove Trump before the 2020 election (or he resigns before then). The only thing up in the air is if Mueller gets it done with enough time to boot Trump. I think this will happen with enough time, but if not, Trump will just be taken care of in the election and then indicted when he is out of office.

He will be taken care of one way or another, BUT I still predict he doesn't make it out of his term.

Mueller is coming.

The clown is done.

courtesy of Thomas Friedman....

behold the GOP!

"Donald Trump is amoral, dishonest and disturbed, a man totally unfit to be president, but, as the anonymous author self-servingly wrote, “There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more.”

Dylan Roof wrote:

https://www.newsweek.com/las-vegas-gunman-was-trump-supporter-happy-stock-market-701597

Guess he wasn't all that happy.

Maybe the stock market didn't go up enough for him.

Flagpole wrote:

I will be surprised if the Democrats take the Senate (the House happens for sure). Even if they do, that doesn't allow them on party line votes alone to convict Trump.

But it would affect what Supreme Court nominees that Trump could get confirmed.

Fat hurts wrote:

538 finally has its senate forecast out. Dems chance of taking the senate are at 34.3%.

Thanks for mentioning that. I hadn't seen it . Nate posted it less than 2 hours ago.

Tons of friendly polling for Democrats in recent weeks. I believe the 34.3% is overly optimistic. Most mathematical models are in the 22-26% range after being as low as 12% until the recent polling shift.

As always I default to long term big picture and not late news. The 2018 senate cycle was always considered hugely problematic for Democrats due to seats defended and where they were. It doesn't make sense for that dynamic to reverse to such extent that Democrats actually defend everything successfully along with picking up Republican seats.

I'll root, but I would be shocked.

Meanwhile, the 538 House model is now at highest point ever, at 82.9% likelihood of Democratic regain, and seats gained at 39.

I expect this to regress but as always you want the trend in your favor. Let the other side own all the geniuses who are scrambling to unskew polls and compare to 2016 and desperately search for likely voter numbers instead of overall numbers:

L L wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

I will be surprised if the Democrats take the Senate (the House happens for sure). Even if they do, that doesn't allow them on party line votes alone to convict Trump.

But it would affect what Supreme Court nominees that Trump could get confirmed.

Yep. Benefits for sure for the Democrats to take control of the Senate. I am not dealing with normal musings of what can happen when so and so is in power, because right now that all pales in comparison to getting Trump out. He is dangerous. He is unprepared and continues not to prepare for this job based on all accounts. He's a serial liar, a horrible person, and a criminal. Not someone who should be the President. His comeuppance is coming.

Fat hurts wrote:

538 finally has its senate forecast out. Dems chance of taking the senate are at 34.3%.

The red state Senate Dems who have midterm elections this November have a a big decision to make- Go along with the Schumer party line, vote against Kavanaugh and risk losing their seats or vote for Kavanaugh to save their seats.

My guess- they will vote in Kavanaugh to save their seats.

Republicans: Promoting oligarchy and blatant corruption to own the libs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/climate/pruitt-coal-consulting.html

L L wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

538 finally has its senate forecast out. Dems chance of taking the senate are at 34.3%.

Hmm

That's about the same chance they gave Trump to win two years ago.

Still refuting the accuracy of the polls?

What was the popular vote again? Therein lies the disconnect between polls and Election Day results. Most of the state results were off within the margin of error and didnt include the impact of the Comey letter. Not saying the Comey letter changed many people’s opinion, but likely motivated more right leaning voters to head to the polls.

Facts are Trump is the least popular president at a time when the economy is zooming.

Alan