Election 2018

[Eric the Green]

(10-27-2018, 07:38 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:

(10-26-2018, 05:51 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Republicans are also market fundamentalists. That remains the primary platform of their party.

There are no Whigs in the Republican Party. It is nothing but market fundamentalists, loony nationalists and theocratic idiots.  The only thing America needs for a stable-minded politics is the end of the Republican Party.

Bill Kristol is a market fundamentalist?

All Republicans are market fundamentalists. It is the primary plank in their platform.

 
Preamble
...We believe political freedom and economic freedom are indivisible.When political freedom and economic freedom are separated — both are in peril; when united, they are invincible. We believe that people are the ultimate resource— and that the people, not the government, are the best stewards of our country’s God-given natural resources.....The President and the Democratic party have dismantled Americans’ system of healthcare. They have replaced it with a costly and complicated scheme that limits choices and takes away our freedom..... They refuse to control our borders but try to control our schools, farms, businesses, and even our religious institutions. They have directly attacked the production of American energy and the industry-related jobs that have sustained families.... 


The President has been regulating to death a free market economy that he does not like and does not understand.... many sections of this platform affirm our trust in the people, our faith in their judgment, and our determination to help them take back their country..... This means relieving the burden and expense of punishing government regulations....government cannot create prosperity, though government can limit or destroy it. Prosperity is the product of self-discipline, enterprise, saving and investment by individuals, but it is not an end in itself. Prosperity provides the means by which citizens and their families can maintain their independence from government....Strong growth, more jobs, increasing incomes, and expanding opportunity are all in short supply under President Obama and the Democrats. We repudiate the absurd idea this is the best America can do. The American people rejected that nonsense the last time it was offered, in the historic election of 1980, and we ask them to join us now to again repudiate the false gospel of America’s diminishment and retreat....

Fair and Simple Taxes for Growth
Republicans consider the establishment of a pro-growth tax code a moral imperative. More than any other public policy, the way government raises revenue — how much, at what rates, under what circumstances, from whom, and for whom — has the greatest impact on our economy’s performance. It powerfully influences the level of economic growth and job creation....Competitiveness equals jobs. That equation governs our policies regarding U.S. corporations in the global economy. Private investment is a keydriver of economic growth and job creation. After falling dramatically during the recession, private in-vestment has recovered at a disappointing pace due in part to high corporate tax rates and increasing regulatory burdens and uncertainty. American businesses now face the world’s highest corporate tax rates. That’s like putting lead shoes on your cross-country team. It reduces companies’ ability to compete overseas, encourages them to move abroad, lessens their investment,cripples job creation here at home, lowers American wages, and fosters the avoidance of tax liability— without actually increasing tax revenues. A more damaging policy is hard to imagine. We propose to level the international playing field by lowering the corporate tax rate to be on a par with, or below, the rates of other industrial nations.....

Freeing Financial Markets

The Republican vision for American banking calls for establishing transparent, efficient markets where consumers can obtain loans they need at reasonable rates based on market conditions. Unfortunately, in response to the financial institutions crisisof 2008-2009, the Democratic-controlled Congress enacted the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, otherwise known as Dodd-Frank. They did not let the crisis go to waste but used it as an excuse to establish unprecedented government control over the nation’s financial markets. The consequences have been bad for everyone except federal regulators. Rather than address the cause of the crisis —the government’s own housing policies — the new law extended government control over the economy by creating new unaccountable bureaucracies. Predictably, central planning of our financial sector has not created jobs, it has killed them. It has not limited risks, it has created more. It has not encouraged economic growth, it has shackled it.......

Small Business and Entrepreneurship
A central reason why the 20th century came to be called the American Century was the ability of individuals to invent and create in a land of free markets. Back then they were called risk-takers, dreamers, and small business owners. Today they are the entrepreneurs, independent contractors, and small business men and women of our new economy. Their innovation drives improvement and forces long-established institutions to adapt or fade away..... We need to consider the effect of capital gains rates on the availability of venture capital, as well as the positive impact of expensing on start-up firms..... (and on and on, all the free-market fundamentalisms....)  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/201...c3ee513eb9