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I dont understand why Trump, if he does want to make the national US debt smaller, still insists with huge tax cuts, would it not be smarter to wait with the tax cuts and instead pay of debt while still work to make the goverment more efficient and try to save on its expenditures wherever it makes sense?
The idea is that the tax cuts will stimulate the economy, resulting in more tax revenue. Also, if they can manage to cut a substantial amount of waste we might not go into debt much if at all.
Now, some stuff is silly. Making car interest payments deductible is just encouraging people to get further in debt. Unless it is a way to counter tariffs resulting in higher car prices.
 
I dont understand why Trump, if he does want to make the national US debt smaller, still insists with huge tax cuts, would it not be smarter to wait with the tax cuts and instead pay of debt while still work to make the goverment more efficient and try to save on its expenditures wherever it makes sense?

The theory is to fuel the economy with tax rate cuts, and increase tax revenue by taxing a larger pie at a lower rate.
 
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The theory is to fuel the economy with tax rate cuts, and increase tax revenue by taxing a larger pie at a lower rate.

Same theory is why Mississippi killed state income tax this week…

More money in the pockets of citizens = more purchasing = growing businesses = large pie being taxed at a lower rate…
 
Same theory is why Mississippi killed state income tax this week…

More money in the pockets of citizens = more purchasing = growing businesses = large pie being taxed at a lower rate…

How much are you folks paying with the tariffs? They seem very broad so I imagine that huge influx of capital will make the government books look good. The liberals artificially floated our economy here with their immigration policy as the temporary influx of money allowed them to say they were doing well fiscally. But it was just a shell game.
 
How much are you folks paying with the tariffs? They seem very broad so I imagine that huge influx of capital will make the government books look good. The liberals artificially floated our economy here with their immigration policy as the temporary influx of money allowed them to say they were doing well fiscally. But it was just a shell game.

I don’t think we’ve felt any noticeable impact (positive or negative) from the tariffs yet… most of them go into effect today though.. so I think the next 60 days will be more telling…
 
The theory is to fuel the economy with tax rate cuts, and increase tax revenue by taxing a larger pie at a lower rate.

So think about doing that in conjunction with tariffs that are going to inhibit global trade and temporarily slow economic growth (it takes business a while to adjust). To me that seems reckless. A staged approach, lowering taxes, which brings business onshore, and then a considered approach to trade equalization, would seem a for more prudent approach.
 
So......what's next? With Crawford in, will Gerrymandering result in House losing seats....will we lose the House? Then, back to impeachment proceedings.......recycle of the past total time waste. Tell me this country is not headed for a bloodbath.
 
So......what's next? With Crawford in, will Gerrymandering result in House losing seats....will we lose the House? Then, back to impeachment proceedings.......recycle of the past total time waste. Tell me this country is not headed for a bloodbath.

Republicans just picked up 2 additional seats in the house with the special elections in Florida. The R lead got bigger yesterday, not smaller.

It’s certainly possible the redistricting in WI will push the state more blue.. but it’s barely been purple, and was already much more blue leaning until this last election cycle… and the WI Supreme Court was already liberal. This latest election just ensured it would stay liberal for a while longer…

Yesterday’s results were an overall positive IMO for conservatives.. there were a few losses, but there were also some significant wins..

Wisconsin passing the law requiring voter ID was a major conservative win as well..
 
Liberation Day!

The freak out by many over tariffs by some will undoubtedly continue.

This is Trump resetting the ‘stakes’ of a negotiation. Think about it, most negotiations start from the current agreement and he’s blowing them up. I wouldn’t want to negotiate against this guy because there is no bluffing, he will do what he threatens and he’s doing it.

Will it do more harm than good? Who knows, I certainly don’t. But the end game is free trade and removal of high tariffs against our goods, as well as more Mfg here, plus some other things he wants like fentanyl stopped and better border security.

He’s literally in 100% negotiation mode all the time. For those with TDS, understanding that may help with your symptoms but unfortunately I know you aren’t (or can’t) listen to such comments.
 
Are presidential decrees omnipotent in the USA?
What we don't understand here in Europe are your presidential decrees.
All parliaments are struggling for majorities and Trump can really decide everything he doesn't like on his own?
 
Wisconsin confuses me.

Votes to keep its Supreme Court liberal..

While at the same time votes to institute a voter ID requirement (a very conservative ideal)..
I have good friends from there, think of it this way.....

Madison is to Wisconsin as Austin is to Texas...... A little blue nipple in a big red tit!

Only Texas has much more population outside its urban centers.
 
Are presidential decrees omnipotent in the USA?
What we don't understand here in Europe are your presidential decrees.
All parliaments are struggling for majorities and Trump can really decide everything he doesn't like on his own?

There are certain executive powers that the president has, think of it like a governing board of a large corporation; the CEO can make decisions but ultimately he is responsible to the board and share holders.
 
Are presidential decrees omnipotent in the USA?
What we don't understand here in Europe are your presidential decrees.
All parliaments are struggling for majorities and Trump can really decide everything he doesn't like on his own?
I have also been curious abot this, does the republicans actually use their current Trifecta to make any new laws or is it just all the presidential decrees so far?

I would assume that they do (would seem that the Trifecta is completly wasted othervise) but there seems to be little news coverage of whatever new laws they are busy making.

There is a lot of articles about the congress under Johnson ceding all power to Trump so perhaps that would mean that they are simply working to try to have his presidential decrees signed in to law?
 
Wisconsin confuses me.

Votes to keep its Supreme Court liberal..

While at the same time votes to institute a voter ID requirement (a very conservative ideal)..

Photo ID to vote always polls above water with Dems, more so now than a decade ago.
 
The president can issue executive orders, but those orders still have to comply with the law (our constitution)… if a president issues an order that a court believes is unconstitutional, they have a couple of different ways to block that order until the courts can hear a case and determine the legality of the order…

Our congress (senate and House of Representatives) is responsible for passing laws / legislation.. the courts then are responsible for determining the constitutionality of those laws and then ensuring those laws are abided by..

With Republicans having a majority in the house and the senate, a majority of justices on the Supreme Court, and the President in the White House they have an opportunity to make some huge, sweeping changes in the US very quickly if they wish..

It does require them to all work together though… the way the system is built any one of the three branches of government has tools to block or slow the actions of the other branches (our system of checks and balances)…
 
I have also been curious abot this, does the republicans actually use their current Trifecta to make any new laws or is it just all the presidential decrees so far?

I would assume that they do (would seem that the Trifecta is completly wasted othervise) but there seems to be little news coverage of whatever new laws they are busy making.

There is a lot of articles about the congress under Johnson ceding all power to Trump so perhaps that would mean that they are simply working to try to have his presidential decrees signed in to law?
Most meaningful legislation requires a 2/3's vote in the senate to overcome a minority filibuster. The republicans are quite a ways from such a super majority. There is a work around called "reconciliation" which is a budget tool, created under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, that enables Congress to advance specific fiscal policies by bypassing the Senate’s usual 60-vote filibuster threshold, requiring only a simple majority (51 votes) to pass. Normally it can only be used once or twice in a session. There is often a great deal of debate over the "fiscal" nature of many of the items crammed into such a bill.
 
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Even if half of the people upset with the democrat party is because they are not doing enough to oppose Trump, I would think these numbers would be more than merely concerning to party.


That said, yesterday Wisconsin passed a voter ID requirement while also handily putting a liberal on its supreme court guaranteeing a redistricting effort that will likely cost republicans at least two seats in the House.

Musk very publicly tried to make the Wisconsin judicial election something of a national referendum on the Trump agenda. I wonder if it did not instead become a referendum on him.
 

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