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2020 Presidential Election

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Mar 26, 2020.

  1. BenignDMD

    BenignDMD Contributing Member

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    You are a moron
     
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    I'm pretty sure the poster won't read the entire article.
     
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    Unless you are making over 450K a year, Biden won't raise your taxes.
     
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  4. Invisible Fan

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    But will he still juice the markets and give silent bailouts to banks and large cap stocks?

    I'm all for personal responsibility...BUT all bets are off when my Robinhood is at stake!!!!
     
  5. FranchiseBlade

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    As opposed to?
     
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    The top half pay most of the taxes.

    I'm for a consumption or fair tax/flat tax plan.
     
  8. deb4rockets

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    You need to listen or read Biden's tax proposal and stop listening to Trump. Biden is going to raise taxes on those making $400,000 or more a year, not the working middle class or poor. I personally didn't make any more money under Trump, but I'm not rich enough to reap his benefits for the wealthy. I'm simply retired military and a Substitute teacher working for peanuts, which I can't even risk doing right now.

    Now I get why you ignore all Trump's negligence. It's because you made more money owning a business under Trump.

    I myself believe in more money going towards raising minimum wage, healthcare and other programs for people less fortunate. What you seem to call socialist is simply humane. Every modern western world in the world offers affordable, if not free healthcare.

    Maybe if your parents or loved ones had lost their home and everything they worked for their whole life to pay outrageous medical bills you might have more empathy for others. Believe me, I've seen people go through that. It's sad. I've seen people take trips to Mexico for doctors, prescriptions, and dental work because they couldn't afford it here. How barbaric is that? These are Americans!! There are so many people in this country busting their ass their whole life, paying taxes, and not even able to enjoy their life for reasons like that.

    Why the wealthy are so hell bent on not helping our own citizens with basic human needs is so hard for me to understand. Its even harder to comprehend when they are the ones claiming to vote Republican because Trump is the chosen one. Since when did giving to the poor and those in need become something Christians decided wasn't important? Are these same Christians reaping off tax free churches and online preaching that has put them in a mansion living high on the hog?
     
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  9. raining threes

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    Obviously you're a deep thinker.

    Care to comment on the post rather than you give your thoughts on me?

    BTW, anybody who willingly votes to have their taxes raised must be a whatever you think of me.
     
  10. deb4rockets

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    You have trouble understanding the fact that Trump is doing a worse job than almost every modern world leader right now with his handling (well, more like ignoring) of the pandemic. What kind of psychopath gives himself an A+ on his handling of the pandemic when over 200,000 have died already in less than 7 months, and 60,000 of those in the past 2 months? Seriously, the way his mind works is disgustingly disturbing. He is absolutely mad!!

    Oh, and maybe you need to look up the past two months on which states are killing off more people. The Republican governed states aren't doing well. So, you might want to stop telling me to show some intelligence and actually wake up and smell the coffee.
     
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  11. Invisible Fan

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    You realize Trump is creating more debt than the 4 trillion dollar tax increase you're complaining about? Even without "taxes" from "Tax and Spend", that's a shitload of money servicing interest in the future to come.

    I seriously hope you time the market right and enjoy your low interest big purchases/refi.

    Things might be tight when the 4 year bill comes due
    https://www.thebalance.com/trump-plans-to-reduce-national-debt-4114401
    Trump Pledged to Eliminate the Debt. Instead He Will Add $8.3 Trillion

    Updated July 01, 2020
    During the 2016 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Donald Trump promised he would eliminate the nation’s debt in eight years.1 Instead, his budgets would add $8.3 trillion during that time. It would increase the U.S. debt to $28.5 trillion at the end of eight years, according to Trump's budget estimates.2

    This figure will probably be higher once the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is realized. The Congressional Budget Office predicted that the pandemic would raise the FY 2021 deficit to $2.1 trillion. The FY 2020 deficit will be $3.7 trillion.3

    Key Takeaways
    • President Trump promised to eliminate the national debt in eight years. Instead, he plans to add $8.3 trillion.
    • Trump treats the national debt like personal debt.
    • He believes that economic growth through tax cuts will pay for itself, though the evidence paints this as unlikely.
     
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    Yet, we do more testing and are wearing masks/doing everything that's been asked of us. Do you think Trump makes decisions without looking at data or conversing with the scientists? Hell, remember they told us in the beginning that there was no need to wear masks. Come on down to Chinatown/DeBlasio /Cuomo/Biden's Trump is xenophobic after the Trump China ban etc...

    That's all Trump's fault. LMAO

    All of that was on Trump.
     
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    One more selfish cult follower added to my ignore list. I don't have the patience to discuss points with people who show no empathy for people dying or in need.

    I can't relate to the greedy ones one bit. I can't understand how anyone would keep a psycho heartless incompetent in office who is racially and politically dividing our country, just to get even richer.
     
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    Well there was this little thing called the pandemic that happened. He could've kept the debt down by letting people starve to death/have their businesses, lives ruined. Is this what you're proposing should have happened.
     
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    You might want to read my next post before you go. Run Spot Run, see you later thanks for putting me on ignore and stopping wasting my time.
     
  16. Amiga

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    People with more money are more likely to keep it to themselves (and less likely to spend them as they already have plenty).

    Wages is a function of the competitive job market, not the good will of employers. Trickle down economic is a theory that has mostly failed.
     
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    Not even close. He already ran up ~2-3 trillion pre-pandemic. I could look up a more definitive number, but I get the feeling that we're just shootin the chit.
     
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    We had a trillion dollar deficit before the pandemic you absolute wanker. You Trump cultists are so naive and misinformed on most issues it’s sad. I have no doubt in my mind if Trump said the earth was flat you would be spouting that nonsense here.
     
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  19. Invisible Fan

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    It appears like we already had this "discussion" before.

    Low Effort Achievement
    Award goes to...

     
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  20. Invisible Fan

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    Yes, it's sad and sickening to not only be greedy but willfully complicit and negligent to long term costs being run up for a very short term period.

    There was a bank run and bailout in March.

    All goober cares about his promised retirement while pushing his way through lines on the Titanic.

    The lesson is that if there's "Cleanup on aisle three", the group who actually cleans it up is is the sucker and gets all the blame. Same with Iraq/Afghanistan. Same with Bush's TARP.

    We're way past "thinking about our children's future" when we got this low class clown perverting the 1st Amendment with his brilliant and aspriational tweets.

    Get yours now before the grownups show up.
     
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