The GOP Has Been HIJACKED!

[Kinser79]

(06-28-2016, 10:44 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(06-28-2016, 10:38 AM)Anthony Wrote: Neoliberal tax policies - like granting total tax forgiveness to every single earner of less than $25,000 a year, and every married earner of less than $50,000 a year?

Everyone who has looked at his policies says it means massive giveaways to the wealthy. Most people who earn under $25000 already don't pay income taxes. And does Trump exclude those people from social security and medicare taxes?

Really?  I am going to want sources for this.  Trump's own plans from his website indicate tax forgiveness to all those making less than 25K/year which is just over 2K per month or roughly anyone who make s $12.50/per hour gross.  Hardly "wealthy" people unless Eric your argumentation is having a job makes one "wealthy".

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Quote:And Trump's immigration policy may be xenophobic, but it would create acute labor shortages that would send wages, especially low-end wages, into the ionosphere.

No it wouldn't, because the ones he wants to exclude are not taking high or even middle-paying jobs. And in any case in order to have any effect, his policies would have to mean actual deportations, not just stopping current illegal immigration, because there isn't any.

I know you have problems with such concepts like 2 + 2 = 4.  But it is simple supply and demand.  If one curtails the flood of unskilled labor into the country then wages for the unskilled will stabilize and eventually start to rise because the supply has been restricted.  Furthermore it would happen slowly enough to not necessitate automation for those unskilled jobs, something that raising the minimum wage to 15 dollars per hour or whatever other absurd number the left is using these days won't prevent.